Completion tracking

Completion tracking in Moodle is a feature that lets you automatically or manually mark when students have finished activities, such as quizzes, assignments, pages, or videos.

You can set conditions—like 'view the activity', 'get a passing grade', or 'submit the assignment'—and Moodle will tick it off for students when those conditions are met. Students can also manually check items off if the you allow it.

Completion tracking enables you to set activity and course completion criteria.

Watch the video below for a summary of completion tracking:

Completion tracking must be enabled in the course settings before you can set activity or course completion criteria.

In this guide:

How to enable completion tracking
Activity completion
- Access the activity completion settings
- Completion progress block
Course completion
- Access the course completion settings
- Course completion status block
How to check completion status

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Automatic completion marking for activities
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Visual progress indicators
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Whole course completion tracking

Benefits

It helps students clearly see what they’ve done and what they still need to complete.
It helps teachers monitor progress and quickly identify who is falling behind.
It supports structured learning paths by allowing teachers to restrict access until previous tasks are completed.
It increases motivation by giving students a visual sense of progress through a course.

FAQs

What’s the difference between manual and automatic completion?

Manual completion: Students tick items off themselves.

Automatic completion: Moodle marks the activity complete when the student meets the conditions you’ve set (e.g., view, submit, pass).

Can I see which students have completed each activity?

Yes. Teachers can use the Activity Completion report to check progress across the whole class and identify who may need support or reminders.

How to enable completion tracking

Go to the Settings tab in the course navigation menu.
Scroll down to Completion tracking.
Ensure that Enable completion tracking is set toYes.
You may choose whether or not to display the completion criteria to students from the Show activity completion conditions option. In most cases we advise this to be set to Yes so students are clear what they need to do.

Activity completion

Activity completion allows you to set completion criteria in a specific activity's settings allowing both students and teachers to track progress via an easy-to-see checklist.

Activities can be marked complete manually or editors can set specific completion criteria that, when met, automatically mark the activity as complete.
Students can view the completion status of activities on the Moodle course page.
Teachers track completion using the activity completion report. The report lists participants against activities with a checkbox to indicate the completion status.

Access the activity completion settings

Once you have enabled Completion tracking for the course, a new section will appear in the settings for each activity or resource: Completion conditions.

The completion conditions available will vary according to the particularly activity or resource. The image below shows the criteria for completion of a forum activity:

Completion conditions for a forum activity showing that students are required to start one discussion and reply to one more by 25th February 2026 at 17:00

Once saved, students will see a To do label next to the activity or resource which, when they click on it, will display the actions they need to complete. Criteria that have already been fulfilled will be indicated by a tick and green text.

A Moodle forum activity showing that students are required to start one discussion and post one reply to complete the activity. A tick demonstrates that they have fulfilled the 'start one discussion' criterion.

Completion progress block

You can add the Completion progress block to the block drawer to provide students with a visual representation of which activities they need to complete and their progress. The progress bar shows a section for each activity that has activity completion criteria set.

The teacher view shows an Overview of students button that takes you to a page showing all students' progress.

Student view

Teacher view

Activity completion can be used as a way of restricting access to an activity based on a student having first completed another activity. First, set the completion criteria for acivity 1 and then go to activity 2 to set the restriction criteria based on activity 1's completion. See the Restrict access to sections and activities guide for more details.

More information on Activity completion is available at Moodle Docs.Link opens in a new window

Course completion

Course completion allows you to set completion criteria for the whole Moodle course. The criteria can include completion of one or more activities, date, completion of another course and/or other requirements. When students meet the requirements, the course is marked complete.

Access the course completion settings

From the course navigation menu, click the More tab.
Select Course completion. N.B. there is also Course recompletion in this list so be sure to click the right option.
From the Course completion settings page you can choose the criteria for course completion. See the link to Moodle Docs below for more detailed guidance.
Click the Save changes button at the bottom of the page to save the criteria.

More information on Course completion is available at Moodle Docs.

Course completion status block

The Course completion status block can be added to the block drawer to allow students to see their progress towards completing the course.

The block also includes a link to More details where students can see exactly which tasks they need to complete, whether they are complete and the date of completion.

How to check completion status

There are two blocks that can be added to a course that enable both students and teachers to view completion progress:

The Completion progress block (See Activity completion)
The Course completion status block (See Course completion)

Both activity completion and course completion data can also be viewed as reports. See the guide on Reports & logs for more information.

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