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Activity completion can be set for resources or activities on your module. Depending on the type of activity, there can be different completion requirements. For example, a PowerPoint might have the requirement to require view; a Quiz might have the requirement to require grade while a Forum might have the requirement to require posts/discussions/replies.

To set activity completion, follow the steps below.

1. Open the activity/resource.
2. From the contextual navigation menu, select Settings to open the settings page.
3. Scroll down to the Activity completion settings. The number of fields visible will depend on the status of the Completion tracking method.
4. Select the Completion tracking method from the drop-down menu. There are three options:
   • Do not indicate activity completion: No activity completion displays next to the activity. No further fields will be visible with this option.
   • Students can manually mark the activity as completed: Students check the Mark as done box to indicate activity completion. (Note: they can do this even without doing the activity!) Selecting this option will display an additional field described in step 5 below.
   • Show activity as complete when conditions are met: The selected completion criteria must be met before the activity is marked as complete. By selecting this option, several additional fields will display depending on the content type. This will enable you to set conditions such as getting a passing grade, posting a certain number of discussions to a forum, submitting to an assignment or simply viewing the resource or activity. 
5. If you want to have this activity completed by an expected date then you can enable and set the Expect completed on date. This date is displayed to students in the Timeline block on the Dashboard page. This helps students to complete activities on time.
6. Select Save and return to module when you have completed your settings.

This Student must receive a grade setting is available in activities that can be graded (e.g. Quiz, Assignment). When this Activity completion setting is enabled, students must receive a grade to complete this activity. A Quiz would be marked completed as soon as the user submits it as it is normally auto-marked by Moodle.

With this setting, it does not matter how well the student does in the activity. Getting any grade will mark the activity as completed.

Set grade criteria

It is possible to distinguish between pass and fail grades so that the a passing grade is required for completion of an assignment. 

To set this up, you first need to specify the pass value for the activity.

1. Open the activity.
2. From the contextual navigation menu, select Settings to open the activity settings page.
3. Expand the Grade settings, input the Grade required to pass.

   

4. Scroll down to the Activity completion settings and select Show activity as complete when conditions are met from the Completion tracking setting.
5. Check the box Student must receive a grade to complete this activity.
6. Check the box Student must receive a passing grade to complete this activity. 
7. Check the box Student must make a submission.

   

8. Scroll down and select Save and return to module.
9. The activity completion settings will display on the module page and within the activity for students and for staff enrolled on the module.
10. Students who submit and receive a fail grade, will receive a fail icon in the activity completion settings on the Module index and they will see that they did not complete the receive a passing grade element of the activity completion on the module page and in the activity.
11. Within the Activity completion report, staff will see an x alongside students who failed and a tick alongside those students who passed. If a student only submits the assignment, but does receive a grade a check will not display in the Activity completion report.

This setting displays in assignment activities and means that an assignment will be considered as completed once the student has submitted - but before the lecturer has graded the submission. 

• Open the activity.
• From the contextual navigation menu, select Settings to open the settings page.
• Scroll down to the Activity completion settings and select Show activity as complete when conditions are met from the Completion tracking setting.
• Check the box alongside Student must make a submission.
• Scroll down and select Save and return to module.

Activity completion for forums provides three different options to manage completion of the activity.

Require posts

• For the Forum to be marked as complete, the student must either start a discussion or reply to a discussion. The number of posts they must make can be specified.

Require discussions

• For the Forum to be marked as complete, the student must start a discussion topic. The number of posts they must make can be specified.

Require replies

• For the Forum to be marked as complete, the student must reply to a discussion. The number of posts they must make can be specified.