Default Activity Completion

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 by completing the following steps:

NOTE: Default activity completion will not change the activity completion settings for activities and resources already in your course. To edit the activity completion for activities and resources that are already in place, you will need to use Bulk edit activity completion.

Enter a course with completion tracking enabled.

Click the More option from the secondary navigation.

Select Course Completion.

From the drop-down menu below the secondary navigation, select Default activity completion option.

Expand the resource or activity you want to change the default Activity Completion for.

Define the desired completion tracking settings for these activities/resources.

You have 3 options for the Completion tracking setting:

    • None – This option is best used for Text and Media Resources as well as activities and resources that are not a required/graded element of the course.
    • Students must manually mark the activity as done – This option is best used for activities and resources that you want students to indicate when they have completed it.
    • Add requirements – This option is best used for activities and resources that you want automatically marked completed when the complete a specific task (view, submit a file, earn a grade, etc…)

Click the Save changes button.

Repeat steps 4-6 as desired for other activity and resource types.

When you’re done with all the activities, consider adding a Course Completion Status Block or Completion Progress Block so you and your students can track progress at the course level.