Using Completion & Restriction
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Why Completion and Restriction Settings?
Restriction settings can be used for a variety of pedagogical purposes. Primarily, we tend to see restrictions used to differentiate content available to certain groups of students within a course, such as content for online-only versus face-to-face students. However, you might also consider any of the following ideas as well:
- creating alternative assessments for individual students with accessibility needs
- setting forum access restrictions to a specified period of time to encourage more student interaction
- requiring a passing grade on a practice quiz to ensure basic knowledge is acquired before moving forward in learning
- etc.
Table of Contents
- Activity Completion Settings
- Activity Restriction Settings
- Pedagogical examples for using Completion and Restriction settings
Activity Completion Settings
Moodle's Completion Tracking system allows both instructors and students to clearly track the overall completion of course elements. This system has a variety of settings from a very passive interface to being applied in conjunction with restriction settings to guide users deliberately through course content.
Turning Completion Tracking on and off
The initial setting for Completion Tracking is located in the Course Settings page, under the Completion Tracking dropdown:
- No Tracking - disable completion tracking altogether
- Passive Tracking - completion tracking is Enabled but the completion conditions - requirements and results - are not shown on the course homepage for every element.
- Active Tracking - completion tracking is Enabled and activity completion conditions - including the requirements and results - are shown on the course homepage.
Note: all completion settings can be overridden within an individual Activity component.
Applying Completion Settings to Course Content
Different Activity types have different Activity Completion Setting options.
Global Options
All Activity Completion settings have the option of turning completion settings off completely, or having students mark the Activity as complete themselves.
They also all have an option to set a completion deadline. This deadline will appear in their course calendar if enabled.
1. Course Page, Book, Uploaded File, or URL Link
For these course content elements, the only condition available is a simple "view" and "viewed" completion setting. Completion setting options:
- Student must view this activity to complete it.
2. Forums
Forums have several options for setting Completion requirements, mainly surrounding engagement such as submitting discussions and replies.
- Student must view this activity to complete it.
- A Grade is required - with the extra option of a Passing Grade being required
- Student must post:
- Discussions or replies (any posts)
- New Discussion (create discussions)
- Replies to other discussions
- All post settings can be set to a certain number threshold.
3. Assignments
Assignments base their completion settings around submissions and grades.
- Student must view
- Student must receive a grade (potentially a passing grade)
- Student must make a submission
4. Quizzes
Quiz activity completion settings can be tied to not only receiving a grade or passing grade but also to a number of attempts.
You might set attempts to two if, for example, you had a setting which required students to complete the quiz once before doing a reading, and then they had to re-write the quiz after the reading.
- Student must view
- Student must receive a grade (a passing grade?)
- All or some minimum number of attempts completed
Activity Completion Report
To view report
Course Administration > Reports > Activity Completion ... report generates automatically and lists all activities and resources you have set Activity Completion for which you have set criteria.
Key to report
Activity Restriction Settings
Activity Restriction settings allow Instructors to determine what content is and is not visible to students or groups of students at certain times.
