The ability to track completion within a Moodle course is useful to both teachers and learners alike in quickly displaying the progress being made.
By making the completion of an activity dependant on meeting a specific grade, you can ensure that your learners are not just progressing through the resources and activities, but that they are progressing with a demonstrable level of understanding.
With a small amount of effort, you can help both the teacher and learner be confident that effective learning is taking place.
1. Firstly, ensure that Completion Tracking is enabled at both a site and course level (you will find this in Site Administration > Advanced Features and Course Administration > Edit Settings respectively)
2. Create an Activity (in this example I am going to create a quiz) ensuring that the following are selected in the settings:
3. Now go to Administration (Settings in versions prior to 2.5) and go to Course administration > Grades.
4. Select Simple View (Categories and Items) from the drop-down list on the Grader Report screen.
5. On the next screen, locate your activity and click on the Edit icon.
6. On the Edit Grade Item screen, click on +Show More to display the advanced settings.
7. Then set the Grade to pass (in my example, I will set it to 7.5) and click on the Save Changes button.
On the course page, the completion status for this activity will now display as one of three states:
Activity not attempted
Activity attempted but pass grade not achieved
Activity complete – pass grade achieved
You may want to extend this further by permitting access to further activities/resources only when an acceptable level of attainment has been reached in an earlier activity.
