Course completion in more detail

2. Setting course completion

When setting up the course completion options, you will be choosing the elements that will be required in order to complete the course.

This could be used for fully online courses or for traditionally taught courses and used to track assessed elements.

One of the easiest ways to consider the use of course completion is to think about the course as whole.

• Students are likely to complete a range of offline and online activities as part of their course.
• Some of these activities might be on Moodle, others will be group / class / practical work and will not be on Moodle.
• There are likely to be a number of assessed elements (tests, assignments and essays, practicals etc).
• If the student passes / completes all the assessed elements then they will have completed the course and can gain a qualification.
• It is these assessed elements that are likely to be chosen in the course completion options (they could just be used to state the work has been completed in the case of offline activities).  It will help both staff and students to track their progress through the course.
• All the other activities are tracked using activity completion but are more useful for preparation / formative work rather than the final summative assessments.

We will now look at the options available for setting up course completion.