Moodle

Activities on the course page do not convey to student that completion is expected or available for the activity

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0
  • Component/s: Activity completion
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    All
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE

Description

Unlike manual completion, there doesn't seem to be a way for the student to know that an activity requires / can be completed in case of automatic completion based on rules. Neither does there seem to be a way for the student to know what the criteria for completion is i.e. the rules specifying minimum grades, view or so on.

PS: Perhaps there should be a separate component for this in the tracker called 'Conditional Activities'. Progress Tracking seems to be a different feature.

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

Yeah, good point ... students should really know what the rules are ...

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - Yeah, good point ... students should really know what the rules are ...
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Sam Marshall added a comment -

It is a good point, unfortunately requires a bit of work (maybe performance issues? minor ones though, can probably make it cache needed data in modinfo).

I would like to do this but it may have to wait a while. (I'm still hoping to do the conditional availability stuff soon...)

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Sam Marshall added a comment - It is a good point, unfortunately requires a bit of work (maybe performance issues? minor ones though, can probably make it cache needed data in modinfo). I would like to do this but it may have to wait a while. (I'm still hoping to do the conditional availability stuff soon...)
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vikram solia added a comment -

Perhaps the completion criteria could be shown as a popup in the course view in response to the user pressing the help icon Sam has already provided for. From within the activity, the completion criteria could be accessible / visible at all times.

Besides completion criteria, there should be some way of telling the student that the activity is compulsory or optional. Perhaps, the easiest way would be to define no completion criteria for the optional activity.

The criteria could be auto-generated from the conditions provided by the teacher.

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vikram solia added a comment - Perhaps the completion criteria could be shown as a popup in the course view in response to the user pressing the help icon Sam has already provided for. From within the activity, the completion criteria could be accessible / visible at all times. Besides completion criteria, there should be some way of telling the student that the activity is compulsory or optional. Perhaps, the easiest way would be to define no completion criteria for the optional activity. The criteria could be auto-generated from the conditions provided by the teacher.
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Helen Foster added a comment -

I think this issue is fixed in 2.0. Please reopen if not.

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Helen Foster added a comment - I think this issue is fixed in 2.0. Please reopen if not.

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