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Activity and course completion tracking

Testing the course materials and the quiz

In order to test your course and its quiz(zes) we advise that you either use a separate test account or enrol a colleague onto the course for them to test it. (Instructions on enrolling another user can be found elsewhere in this guidance.)

If you create the test account, you will need to register it on OpenLearn Create using a different email address.

Use your main account – that is, the one that you have Owner or Course Manager permissions for – to enrol the test account or your colleague's account and give it Reviewer status so that they can see the draft course.

Whether you or a colleague are doing the testing, you should check the course as though you were a learner who wanted to complete the course.

  • Work through the course in the preferred order and note any navigational, editorial or accessibility issues. For example, are there clear links between different sections? Are there any grammatical or spelling errors? Do the figures have alt text and/or long descriptions to make them accessible to screen readers?
  • Attempt the quiz, working through all the questions. If you need the quiz answers available, you can view them in with your main account by clicking on the icon of three vertical dots next to the quiz to reveal a drop-down menu, clicking on Edit settings and then Results and Review questions.
  • Note that it is good practice to get the answers wrong in quizzes to check that the feedback for wrong answers and that the grade boundary feedback are working correctly. If you submit a quiz with a ‘fail’ grade; you will need to wait 24 hours to attempt it again to get a passing grade and achieve the badge; alternatively, you could set up two test accounts: one to deliberately fail the quizzes and one to pass the quizzes to achieve the badge.

Use your main account to check whether the activities have been marked as completed by going to the Administration block and clicking on Reports and then Activity completion. This will show a list of all users and checkboxes for each activity that counts towards course completion. The checkboxes will be ticked if a user (i.e. your test account) has completed the activity.