Moodle Educators – How to use the activity completion settings

Moodle offers you the most customizable and enriched learning management system. You can use Moodle to create your own individualized learning portal. As a teacher you might be struggling to track the progress of your students. In this post, we will let you know how you can use the Moodle’s inbuilt activity completion settings to handle this.

Activity completion can be helpful for students to be able to track their progress in a course. They will have an easy checklist to understand the requirements and what they have achieved so far. In Moodle 4.0, the side course index also shows a nice green icon for the activities which are completed by the learners.

For all unversed, Moodle allows the teacher to set completion criteria in a specific activity’s settings which are required to be met by students. The criterion might be viewing, receiving a certain score or a student marking it as complete.

Depending on the activity type, there are different activity completion settings. For example, for a Page resource, the students only need to spend some defined time. In quiz, they might be required to get a minimum passing grade and in Forums, they might need to post a reply/thread.

In this post, we will see how you can set the Minimum passing grade on applicable graded activities in Moodle course. Just make sure that the administrator has enabled the Activity completion in Site administration > Advanced features. And you have also enabled in your course settings under ” Show activity completion conditions “.

Use Minimum Passing Grade as Activity Completion criteria

For example, you are having a quiz and you want the students to have a passing grade in order to mark the quiz as complete. In Moodle 4.0, there is a new condition included which allows you to define a passing grade to mark the completion of a graded activity. This condition is used together with the Require grade requirement.

Under the quiz settings, you need to set the minimum passing grade under the Grade section:

Specify the grade to pass

Then under the activity completion settings you need to tick the box for ‘Student must receive a passing grade to complete this activity.

Use the Grade to Pass checkbox

Similarly there are many other activity completion settings which you can use to make your online learning portal effectively. Check out this page to learn more about the activity completion in Moodle.