Visual display of course and section progress
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Users can choose between a donut or progress bar for visual representation of course or section progress. There are several options to differentiate the course progress display from the actual completion criteria. In addition to the completion of relevant activities, the completion of individual sections can also be displayed.
Visual display of course and section progress
Let's move on to our new features for
the progress display of courses and sections.
Previously, designer displayed all the relevant
activities when it came to course progress.
So when it came to this progress bar here,
it was automatically displaying all the relevant activities
and relevance is determined by the activities
that are selected for course completion
or s course completion criteria.
And, uh, while we're discussing this with a couple
of customers, we realized that in some courses, uh,
that is perfectly fine
and we think that's most courses to be honest.
But in other course, um, you might want
to have a progress which lists all the activities
that you've completed so that you have a continuous, uh,
positive reinforcement for your students
because they continuously see that they per proceed
and get a new percentage added to their progress,
even if it doesn't really matter for the course progress,
because that only is increased when there's a new milestone
that they reach like an a quiz
or an assignment or something like that.
So in order to make this better customizable, um,
we are adding mains to control how cause progress
and section progress is determined
in the progress bar.
You see, for example, in this case here
that the four remaining criteria that need
to be completed are these four
activities that that's visible.
Once you click on this and you've completed 56% of the calls
and you've completed 50% of the first module.
In this example here we are using these sections
to calculate the course progress.
So it's, it's the same activities
that are completed actually, but we are counting.
You have completed one section,
which is the required learning section.
You've got 100% in this section.
So all three activities have been completed
and you have two more sections to go
and that's especially helpful if you have a, a long course
and you don't want your course progress to be so clotted
to have, I dunno, 17 out of 36 activities completed.
You'd rather have like the first module
or the first section is completed
and the two other ones are remaining.
So both this is telling the student one out
of three criteria is completed
and the donut is telling the student 33%,
which means like one out
of three sections exactly the same information is completed
of in addition turned on the call status here,
which is enrolled in progress or completed.
And obviously that's a bit too much for a real course.
I've just turned everything on
and clicked on the progress bar here, uh,
to take the screenshot for you so
that I can show you everything.
One kind of odd problem that I sometimes
say on customer's courses is that it's hard
to say for a student if a course is actually completed.
And in order to mitigate that, we have now
multiple means to indicate
that a course is completed both in our to of course
with a progress bar and with this course status batch here.
Let's have a look how it looks on our Moodle side.
So I'm back in this very course here,
which we used previously.
And if you look at the participants list, you'll see
that I'm not in this course.
So let's change that.
Just need to find me. There we go.
And now you see that I'm enrolled in this course.
I've completed zero out of three criteria
and this is also reflected in the donut in this section.
I now also have a donut, um, in designer
1.5 and earlier you only had
the progress bar in the section.
Now you can switch between donut or progress bar
or nothing, it's your choice.
So let's complete a few activities, shall we?
In this case it's very simple.
I just have to open the page
and that's used a course index to complete
all three activities, which means
that I've now completed the required learning section.
So let's look back at the course and not a surprise.
I've completed the required learning section
and now I've completed one
or three criteria, which means 33%.
If I click on the green bar in the progress bar, I see
that I've completed this section.
If I click on the gray bar, I see
that I have two more sections to complete.
Let's look at the settings in this course
in the header section because like the progress
is displayed in the header.
That's kind of why we put it there.
You see that we've both turned on the progress bar
And we set the course progress to be a donut.
We usually recommend to use just one of those two, not both.
So if progress is, is a very important thing for you,
we would probably recommend
to just use the progress bar like so,
Because This is providing both a visual clue as well
as a textural clue and the information which sections
or activities or relevant activities
are supposed to be completed.
So students have a lot of information.
This is maybe a bit too clunky for some courses,
so if you'd rather have a more clean interface, which
represents the same information
but it's just a bit cleaner, you probably would want
to use the course progress as a donut
instead of the progress bar.
And probably also let's turn off the, um, where is it?
Completion status indicator.
And this now looks very clean and simple.
So it really depends on what you need and your courses.
Do you need a very clear information
what the student has done and not done
or is just like one information enough?
You might want to, in addition
to the donut also include the, um,
completion status indicator, which you can place either
below the course progress
or with the course metadata to the left below the title.
Let's put it to the course progress for a second.
And then students have a one clear
element which tells them, am I in progress?
Have I completed the course or am I just enrolled
and haven't even started it.
So depending on your use case, you might want to use one
or both or in combination.
Let's have a look at the course
completion settings, shall we?
So you see that there's a lot of activities in here.
All these have activity completion turned on
and they are marked.
They, all of them are marked as completion relevant.
That's how we call that, like completion relevant
because they're selected
as activity completion criteria for the calls.
So if we look at the settings now o You'll see
that in the course head section, the course
progress is calculated based upon sections.
And let me be clear, this has nothing to do with
how course progress
or course completion is actually determined.
That's done with the course completion
settings that we just looked at.
This year's just about show, it's just about how
to display it, how to communicate it, if that makes sense.
And I can hearsay use all the completion criteria as,
um, as the relevant criteria.
This would include activity completion
and the completion of other courses.
So if you require your core, uh, your students to
complete other courses, which we usually call prerequisites
in designer terminology, um,
then completion criteria would be the best for you.
If you want the course progress to be determined by
how many activities the student has completed
that are completion relevant, then you choose this.
If you want all activities to be, uh, used to calculate
and display the course progress, then use all activities.
And that means all activities that have completion
configured, uh, 'cause
otherwise they can't be included if
completion is not configured.
And if you want sections, then you choose Jackson sections
For the section progress, we have a similar feature, uh,
but you can only, uh, um, select relevant activities,
which are all the activities that are marked
as relevant in the course completion settings
or all activities.
So it really depends on how you want to use it.
And as I mentioned previously, you can switch from donut
to progress bar per section
and you can do the same thing for the post progress.