How do I track student progress in a course?

You will learn how to add requirements to your course Modules, so that you can track the progress of individual students and they can in turn view their own progress in the course.

Being able to monitor your students' progress in your course and allowing students to monitor their own progress can let you see at a glance whether some students are lagging behind or have missed certain assignments, readings, videos, quizzes, discussions, etc.

1. Set up requirements for your Modules.

Adding requirements to your Modules will allow you to more closely track your students' progress. Plus, it also allows them to more closely track their own progress.

Read this guide on how to add requirements to your Modules.

2. Add pre-requisites (if you desire students to finish one module before starting the next).

Adding pre-requisites to a Module will help your students to completely finish up one module before moving on to the next. However, it is not necessary to add pre-requisites if you want to see student progress.

Read this guide on how to add pre-requisites to your modules.

3. Check your students' progress.

Read this guide on how to check a student's progress.

4. Use the Student Interactions Report.

Read this guide to learn how to view the Student Interactions Report which will show you the student's current score and whether there are any submitted yet ungraded (or graded as 'Incomplete') assignments.

5. Use the student Access Report.

Read this guide to learn how to use the Access Report to see which Pages a particular student has viewed, which Assignments he has submitted, and which Discussions he has contributed to.

6. Use the New Analytics tool.

Read this guide to learn how to use the New Analytics tool to see more detailed information about a specific student's actions in the course. Note that this tool may be up to 48 hours behind.

Article Summary

You have now learned how to set up module requirements in order to view your students' progress module by module and assignment by assignment.