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Managing Tracking in Moodle

Tracking in Moodle is used to monitor students' progress in courses. You can enable completion tracking for activities and courses, allowing both students and teachers to see their progress.

Enabling Completion Tracking for a Course

  1. Navigate to the course you want to enable tracking for.
  2. Click Edit settings from the Course Administration block.
  3. Scroll to the Completion tracking section.
  4. Set Enable completion tracking to Yes.
  5. Choose whether you want to track activities automatically or manually.
  6. Click Save Changes when done.

Enabling Completion Tracking for Activities

  1. In the course, turn Editing On by clicking the button at the top right.
  2. Scroll to the activity you want to enable tracking for and click Edit.
  3. Choose Edit settings from the dropdown menu.
  4. Scroll to the Activity completion section.
  5. Set Completion tracking to:
  6. Do not indicate activity completion
  7. Student can manually mark the activity as complete
  8. Activity is completed when conditions are met (e.g., grade achieved, date reached)
  9. Click Save and return to course.

Viewing Completion Reports

  1. Navigate to the course where you want to view the completion report.
  2. Click on Course Administration > Reports > Completion Report.
  3. The report will show a list of all students and their completion status for each activity.
  4. You can filter and search for specific students or activities.

Customizing Completion Criteria

  1. Navigate to the activity you want to modify.
  2. Under the Activity completion settings, set conditions based on:
  3. Grades (e.g., achieving a certain grade).
  4. View (e.g., whether the student has viewed the activity).
  5. Post (e.g., if the student has posted in a forum).
  6. Click Save Changes to apply the criteria.