Activity Completion: Student Must Earn a Passing Grade on Quiz

These steps require that you have completion tracking enabled in your course.

A common activity in Moodle is to have students earns a specific score on a quiz. You can set up Activity Completion to mark a quiz as complete if the student earns a passing grade.

This is ideal for warm-up quizzes and terminology tests, where you want to encourage students to take a quiz/test until they pass it.

Enter the quiz where you want to set up activity completion.

Click the Questions item from the secondary navigation.

Make note of the Maximum grade. 

Click the Settings item from the secondary navigation

Expand the Grade section:

  • Set your Grade to pass to whatever you want as a passing grade for this quiz.

EXAMPLE: For a quiz worth 50 points I want students to at least get 70% (50*0.70), so I would set my Grade to pass at 35 points. If you want students to earn a perfect score on this quiz, you would set the Grade to pass at the same value as the Maximum grade (50 points).

  • Set Attempts allowed to Unlimited. 

NOTE: If you choose to limit the number of attempts the student may not be able to receive a passing grade so you need to make sure you select the correct options for the Completion conditions.

  • Set your Grading method to Highest grade. 

Expand the Completion conditions section.

Select the Add requirements option.

Check Receive a grade.

Select Passing grade option that appears.

NOTE: If you plan to limit the number of attempts the student can use to complete the quiz make sure you check the Passing grade or all available attempts completed option.

If you do not have a close date for the quiz under Timing, or you would like to encourage students to complete the quiz prior to the close date, you can enable and change the Set reminder in Timeline date. This won’t prevent students from completing the quiz beyond that date but it will post a reminder to students on both the Timeline and the Calendar located on the Dashboard.

Make any other changes you may want to make.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save and Return to Course button.

With Edit mode turned on you can select Edit conditions from the Completion drop-down to modify these settings at a later date.