Activity and course completion tracking
If your course has a statement of participation, custom Moodle certificate or a badge, you will need to set up completion tracking in the Settings. This should only be done after everything else in the course is ready, including the quizzes. Some of this configuration (badges) can only be set up by someone with Course Manager permissions for a course. If you are your course’s Owner, you will need to request the Course Manager role from openlearncreate@open.ac.uk. Please provide the URL of the course for which you are requesting Course Manager permissions.
Enabling the badge
Once you are completely satisfied that everything in your course is set up correctly, you can enable the badge(s).
To enable the badge, go to the Administration block on the left-hand side of the screen and click on Badges.
Click on Manage badges. In the Manage badges screen, click on the ‘three dots’ symbol in the right-hand column of the table and click on Edit.
This will open a page where you can edit the details for the badge, if needed. At the top of the page, click on Enable access to open the Changes in badge access page. Click on Continue.
You will then be taken back to the badge page, where the fields to edit badge details will now be locked. You will not be able to edit the badge details once the badge has been enabled.
Because you’ve worked through the criteria for the badge using the test account, the system should issue the badge straight away when you enable it and an email should be sent to the email address associated with the test account. Check the email to make sure it all works okay.
If there are problems with the email or if it does not arrive, or if no one is eligible for the badge, check that the test account has met all the badge criteria. (If you go to the Administration block and click on Reports and then Course completion, you’ll be able to confirm whether the test account completed the various activities that are being tracked.)
There might be a navigational issue that means the test account does not visit all the pages in a Moodle book; for example, it might not have seen an acknowledgements page at the end if an earlier page had a link to another part of the course, such as a quiz. You can set certain pages to be optional by going to the activity completion ‘require complete view’ and putting a page number into the text box.
If there is any problem with the badge issued, you might have to set up a new badge and disable the badge that was issued to the test account.
To disable a badge, go to the Administration block on the left-hand side of the screen and click on Badges.
Click on Manage badges. In the Manage badges screen, click on cog symbol in the right-hand column of the table and click on Edit.
This will open a page where you can edit the details for the badge, if needed. At the top of the page, click on Disable access.