Educators benefit from knowing how students are progressing through their learning materials, so they can identify and offer support to any learners who are falling behind. Students also need a way to capture their progress as they work through the materials and tasks within them.
The Mark as complete feature on material pages helps students see what they’ve finished and where they are in their journey. Educators can view each student’s progress in Engagement Analytics, based on what the student has marked as complete.
Student Overview
The screenshot below shows the student’s progress overview, including which materials are complete and not yet complete across all pages.
In Materials, students can click View progress overview at the top to track their progress.
This is what their overview looks like:
How a Student Marks or Unmarks a Page as Complete
After reviewing the material, students can mark the page as complete by:
Opening the page in Materials.
Clicking Mark as complete in the top-right corner.
Confirming the button changes to Step complete (green), which means the page is marked complete.
If a student marks all pages within a section as complete, a tick icon appears next to the section to indicate it’s complete.
If a student marks content as complete by mistake or wants to revisit it later, they can click the green Step complete button again to unmark it.
Engagement Analytics
Engagement analytics are based on what students mark as complete. This doesn’t confirm that a student actually read, watched, listened to, or understood the content.
In the Engagement tab, you’ll see a column showing the percentage of students who have marked the page as complete.
FAQs
Q1: What happens when I release new materials?
Newly released materials will appear as not yet completed for students. If a section previously showed a green tick, releasing new materials in that section will remove the tick because there’s now new content to complete. Once students mark the new content as complete, the green tick will appear again.
Q2: Can students view their classmates' progress? Can they view their own progress on spaces they're not enroled in?
No to both. Students can only view their own progress (never anyone else’s), and only in spaces they are currently enrolled in. If a student is removed from a space, they can no longer view their progress for that space.
Q3: In progress calculations (overview page and Engagement reports), which pages are included?
Only visible pages are included. Hidden pages and scheduled pages that haven’t been published yet are not counted.
Q4: Do I have to enable the Mark as Complete button in my materials?
No. The Mark as complete button is enabled by default and doesn’t require any setup from educators.
See Also
- Engagement Analytics
- Aula: What, Why, and its High Engagement Practices
- Welcome to Aula - For Educators