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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available.
This is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Databases and other interactive activities, it can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student at LEAST opens a page or URL or Book. If you can’t find a good way to automate this, consider using the honor system and letting students check off their own progress.

- Enable editing by clicking the Turn Editing On from within the Actions menu (gear icon) found in the top-right of the page.
- Locate the item you want to track completion for
- Click the Edit menu and select Edit Settings
- Expand the Activity completion section
- Change of the value of Completion tracking to Show activity as complete when conditions are met.
- Check the box(es) below to choose those conditions
NOTE: viewing an activity has no time set, they could literally open and close the activity and it would become marked.
- Click the Save and return to course button to see your handiwork.