The Completion Progress Block is already included in your Course Structure Template. In order to use its Completion Progress Bar you need to first set up completion tracking in your course. Follow these steps after you have enabled completion tracking on all relevant activities for your course. NOTE: The block does NOT update immediately and [...]
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When you Enable Completion Tracking in your course, all new activities and resources will default to Students can manually mark the activity as complete since that is the only option available for all activities and resources. If you wish to change the Default activity completion for specific types of activities and resources, you can do so [...]
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Setting up Completion Tracking The completion tracking feature allows you and your students to track course progress. Please follow these steps to utilize Completion Tracking in your course. Enable completion tracking in your course. Set up Activity Completion for activities and resources in your course: Individual Activities and Resources Students Manually Marked as Complete can [...]
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Restrict Access to Next Activity Locate the activity, resource, or section/topic in your course that you want to ONLY be available after a student has completed a select activity. If Edit mode is on, click the Edit menu, then select the Edit Settings or Edit Section option. OR Click into the activity or resource and [...]
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All forms of added security will make it harder to access something (intended or not); it's another hoop to jump though and some students may not be able to reliably jump through those hoops. You'll need to keep a balance of accessibility and security in mind when adding security measures of any kind. Mix it [...]
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These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course. A common activity in Moodle is to have students participate in a forum. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a forum as complete if the student completes a specified number of posts/discussions/replies. NOTE: This will not check for a substantive post, [...]
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For preventing date-based late access to any resource or activity. Locate the Activity or section/topic in your course that you want to ONLY be available after a certain time. If Editing is turned on, click the Edit menu and click the Edit Settings link. OR Click into the activity or resource and from Secondary navigation [...]
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For preventing date-based early access to any resource or activity (not needed for assignment activities as it has a built in feature for this.) Enter your desired course. Toggle Edit mode into the On position (if it's not already) Locate the Activity or section/topic in your course that you want to ONLY be available after [...]
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Follow these steps after you have enabled completion tracking on all relevant activities in your course. NOTE: The block does NOT update immediately and changes to a student's progress will update every few minutes. From the top-right corner of the page toggle Edit mode into the On position. Locate the Add a Block item at [...]
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual. Use this process for one type of activity/resource at a time for the most control and the best results. Enter the course with completion tracking enabled. From the Secondary navigation expand the More button. Select [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This feature is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Quizzes, and other interactive activities. It can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student views a file, page, URL, or book. You may also consider using the honor system and letting students check off [...]
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This option is ideal for tracking student progression through coursework handled outside of Moodle, such as completing readings or assigned tasks. For items handled within Moodle, you might instead automate this process so an activity checks off after meeting specified requirements. Locate the item [...]
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How-To Enable Completion Tracking Enabling Completion Tracking in a course allows your students to clearly recognize and track the work they need to complete. It will have no effect on their grade. To add Activity Completion to existing activities and resources, use Bulk Edit Activity Completion. To make sure Activity Completion is set up properly [...]
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Restrict Access is a Moodle plugin that can be applied to Activities and Resources and used to limit access based on group, password, completion tracking, date/time, and more. ApplyGradeTroubleshootApply Applying Restrict Access to an Activity or Resource You can apply open and close dates to any activity or resource and have it still show grades [...]
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Working with Quizzes in Moodle Quizzes are one of the more unusual activities in Moodle and have some added depth of functionality which makes them seem a bit more complicated to set up. However, they are often low maintenance afterward as many question types are or can be self-grading. You can also be very intentional in [...]
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How-To Extend Time Limit on a Quiz Quizzes can accommodate extended time limits, due dates, number of attempts, and unique passwords for individual students. These directions look at how to extend the time limit, which is the most common accommodation. However, you will notice other settings that you can also alter. NOTE: Moodle uses the [...]
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Your initial course quiz settings can be overridden to set special quiz access for individuals or for groups of students. For example, an individual student can be given unlimited time to take an otherwise timed quiz, such as when a student has a Disability Services accommodation. Use the Unlimited Test Time User role for that [...]
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