Completion Tracking and Settings

Relevant to: faculty and staff

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Introduction

Completion tracking enables instructors to set the method of completion for discussions, assignments, web pages, links, surveys and quizzes. Completion tracking provides progress indicators for learners as they complete various course activities. There are three types of completion tracking settings you can use in your course offerings:

• Required: Automatic Completion: Completion tracking that automatically determines whether learners have completed a topic when they click to view it. For some activities, automatic tracking requires users to participate in a discussion, submit a file or form, or complete an assessment such as a quiz or survey before completion is successful (the default setting for newly created activities).
• Required: Manual Completion: Completion tracking that is manually set by learners. Learners can select the completion check box at the bottom of each content topic to indicate they have completed it.
• Not Required: Completion Tracking is not enabled automatically or manually.

Completion Tracking and Due Dates

For items with Due Dates assigned, it is highly recommended that the completion tracking be set to Required: Automatic. This will avoid student receiving Overdue messages on the item - this overdue message appear regardless of the actual submission status. 

Note: If you are using content from prior term courses as well as some Coordinator-Managed Primaries, the completion tracking setting may use the old default setting of Not Required - this setting should be updated to Required: Automatic to prevent overdue messages when using due dates. 

Manage completion tracking settings

You and your students may use completion tracking to monitor progress throughout your course.

To set completion tracking settings for an item. 

1. Navigate to a Module
2. Click the Completion Tracking drop-down menu (Double dash icon) for the individual item you wish to change: discussions, assignments, web pages, links, surveys and quizzes.
3. Select the menu item that you want to change settings to.

Check completion tracking for a Content topic

Use completion tracking to monitor learners' progress throughout your course.

To check completion tracking for a Content topic

1. Navigate to Content.
2. Click on the topic you want to view completion tracking results for.
3. In the Completion Summary tab, do any of the following:
   • To view all learners' results for the topic, click All.
   • To view all learners who have completed the topic, click Completed.
   • To view all learners who have not completed the topic, click Incomplete.