Hi everyone,
Is there a way to choose which activities are included in the progress bar in the Personal Menu?
I have three assignments in a course, but students only need to complete one in order to move on to the next module. This means that students will never see a 100% complete progress bar, which is causing some confusion.
I appreciate any help you can provide!
Anna
Basically, the only activity that should have completion settings should be the one activity you are asking them to complete. I recommend setting the completion for that one activity to be set automatically when they submit. Hope that helps!
That would work if there is only one to complete (everyone completes the same one, the other two are optional), but if they get to choose which to complete from the 3, it will be no way to set it up... at least not that i can think of.
Hi Mike and Ester,
Thanks for your responses. I should've been more specific in my original question. Ester is correct that I'm giving students a choice of three activities to complete, so all three activities need to have completion settings.
I was thinking about removing the completion settings of the three activities, adding a label learning activity that says "Click the check mark when you've completed one of the three activities", and setting the label to allow students to manually mark themselves complete. My only fear is that students will overlook the label or mark themselves as complete without having submitted anything.
Is there a way to turn off the progress bar in the Personal Menu for only certain courses?
Anna
Anna Grillo Ester Muñoz Aparicio Mike Wilday
Apologies this is a bit rushed but I'm limited for time.
You can do this.
1) Create three groups
2) Restrict access to each of the assignments based on a different group
3a) Request "Group choice" is enabled to enable the students to enrol themselves into a group to access the activity (Community Plugin - log a ticket)
or (more complicated)
3b) Create an activity where the outcome uses PLD as a route to place them in a group to access the appropriate assignment
or (really complicated)
3c) mess about with permissions to enable the students to enrol themselves in the group based on permissions in the course
The students will only see activities applying to them based on group membership represented in the progress bar
Nathan, how does setting it up like this affect the gradebook? Are students graded as missing those assignments even though they are only assigned to one via their group?
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Off the top of my head (without any testing), I'd create a calculated column for the grade which is displayed to students in the gradebook based on achieving a grade for any of the three assignments and hide the columns for those three assignments from the students so they only see the grade for one.
Hope this makes sense. It's been some time since I've looked at the Moodle gradebook as I'm mostly Blackboard Learn focussed these days.
Hi Nathan,
How do you "hide the columns for those three assignments from the students"? We do something similar in our gradebooks so I'm interested in this method.
Our method is to create categories for each group of assignments. E.g. ("-" represents a category, "--" represents a subcategory:
- Assignments (100%, simple weighted means, drop lowest 1)
-- Undergraduate assignments:
10%
40%
50%
-- Postgraduate assignments:
10%
40%
50%
Because the assignments are restricted they cannot see the contents of the category that is not for them, and the total feeds through to the parent category based on their group. I recently discovered we also need "
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Hey there, to set up the activity completions, start by reading this post I created: Course Completion setting updates using Bulk Editor. Activity completion is the key to having the progress wheel fill up. If you have "Students can mark this activity as complete", then it is counting that activity toward your completion percentage.