Activity Completion Tracking

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.
This image highlights the activity completion numbers for each module.
  • 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.
This image highlights the activity completion indicator icons.
  • 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.
This image highlights the completion summary tab at the bottom of a discussion post.
Enable/Disable Activity Completion Tracking for a Module
  1. Click on Content on the navbar.
This image highlights the content navbar option.
  1. 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.
This image highlights the table of contents tab at the top of the list of modules.
  1. Click the dropdown arrow next to the module name and select Set All Completion from the dropdown menu.
This image highlights the activity completion dropdown menu at the module level.
  1. Choose the appropriate option. Note: The system defaults to Required: Automatic.
This image highlights the three possible settings for activity completion.
  1. Click Update.
This image highlights the update button at the bottom of the activity completion settings popup menu.
Enable/Disable Activity Completion Tracking for an Individual Topic
  1. Click on Content on the navbar.
This image highlights the content navbar option.
  1. Navigate to the Topic for which Activity Completion Tracking should be enabled or disabled.
This image highlights an example topic inside an example module.
  1. 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.
This image shows the dropdown menu for activity completion at the topic level.