The Activity Completion Tracking tool allows students to monitor progress while completing a course. It also allows the instructor to monitor the topics students are visiting in a course. Completion tracking can be set for individual topics or entire modules.
Activity Completion Tracking Overview
Activity Completion Tracking Settings
- Required: Automatic – Topics will be marked as complete when the student does something in Brightspace such as clicking a file or posting to a discussion. Refer to the Activity Completion Criteria List below for a full breakdown of how this works for different types of content.
- Required: Manual – Students will see a checkbox next to the topic, which they must manually click to mark the item as complete.
- Not Required –No completion tracking will be monitored.
Activity Completion Criteria List
This list indicates when an item is marked complete for different types of topics in Content when Required: Automatic is selected.
- Uploaded files are marked complete when a student clicks them.
- Pages created in Brightspace (i.e., HTML pages) are marked complete when a student views them.
- Links are marked complete when a student clicks them. Note: Links to LTIs may not be not be marked as complete even when clicked on.
- Discussions are marked complete after a student first posts. If the discussion assignment requires students to post more than once, select manual completion tracking.
- Submission folders are marked complete after one submission.
- Quizzes are marked complete after one attempt is submitted.
- Self-assessments are marked complete as soon as they are opened.
- Surveys are marked complete when a student submits a response.
Activity Completion Indicators
- On the left pane of the content page, there is a number next to each module that indicates how many items remain to be marked complete.

- On the right side of the content page, each item has either a black dot (not marked as complete) or a check mark (marked as complete) that indicates its status.

- Additionally, each activity has a console at the bottom of the page that breaks down who has been marked complete. Click on Completion Summary inside the console to see this information. Note: This only applies to activities set to automatic or manual completion tracking.

Enable/Disable Activity Completion Tracking for a Module
- Click on Content on the navbar.

- Select the module for which Activity Completion Tracking should be enabled or disabled. Note: Select the Table of Contents to edit all modules at once.

- Click the dropdown arrow next to the module name and select Set All Completion from the dropdown menu.

- Choose the appropriate option. Note: The system defaults to Required: Automatic.

- Click Update.

Enable/Disable Activity Completion Tracking for an Individual Topic
- Click on Content on the navbar.

- Navigate to the Topic for which Activity Completion Tracking should be enabled or disabled.

- Click the icon to the right of the activity and select the appropriate setting from the dropdown menu. Note: the icon changes depending on whether Activity Completion Tracking is enabled for the module.
