I have a situation similar to one described earlier, meaning that conditional course completion is not checked even though all prerequisites have been met. Even more, the course completion block indicates that activity tracking is not ON, even though it is and checkboxes and checkmarks are shown.
I have this issue in both Moodle2.7.1 (Build: 20140714) and Moodle2.7.1+ (Build: 20140821)
Can you put a screen shot of your completion requirements, and of the completion block? It may help to understand what you mean.
Cheers
Peter
Yes Peter, here are the details:
1. Please see below a completion report for this simple 1-activity course with automatic completion tracking for that activity. The course completion block on the right shows a 'no tracking' and the tracking box for the course is not checked.
2. However, course completion has only one condition which is the completion of this one activity (all other conditions are unchecked).
3. This one activity is completed once seen, as was confirmed by the checked box in the first picture:
You're entirely right Mary, it looks different from a student perspective (sorry for the Dutch in the screenshot). However, although the completion box is checked as you can see, the block says Busy and Status completed 0 out of 1.
When you click on view details in the block, the following appears:
Status: not yet started
Completed: no.
This contradicts the fact that the activity has been completed, as illustrated by the checked box in the image above.
Now, I just had in idea. When looking for solutions, I've seen many video's on Youtube about course completion and its settings. All those were made with earlier versions of Moodle, e.g. 2.0. In those video's, with the activity completion settings, there was an extra checkbox that is absent in 2.7: start tracking with enrollment. Does this suggest that tracking has not started in 2.7?
It's OK - I can speak German so I can guess a lot of Dutch I can only think like others that this is a cron issue - hopefully some cron experts can come along and suggest solutions...
Please see my post here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=267257
I think we are having the same problem?
Yes Frances, I think we do (I even referred to your post in my first). I' ve just posted a request for a cron expert opinion in this thread.
A couple of things.
I cannot put my finger on why, but I did find at some stage in the past (somewhere between 2.2 and 2.6) I had to have all for General completion requirements, even if there was only one requirement. (Rather than any)
The other thing I notice, is in the SQL you provided, the course_completions table has times in the 'reaggregate' column, which is the signal to CRON that it needs to recalculate this. (It is the same time that is in the course_completion_crit_compl table). The next time it runs, it 'should' update that table.
Kind regards
Peter
I've found a solution. Peter previously remarked that the database seems ready for recalculation. So why doesn't cron pick that up? It seems that since in Moodle 2.6 students cannot be actively marked as started on a course, the course completion check for them doesn't start either.
In cron.php in the Moodle/completion folder, in lines 50-55 there is a function checking the Started status of a student. I just deleted the debugging check and marked all students as started.
Now, after a couple of cron runs as suggested, the course completion check works!
This is what I did:
Old:
if (debugging()) {
mtrace('Marking users as started');
}
New:
/* if (debugging()) { */
mtrace('Marking users as started');
/* } */
That makes sense.
Question - are the students enrolled in the course, as in do they have a role?
Or is the course open to be able to enter without having a role?
We have a similar issue, where if a third party books someone into a face-to-face session, it enrols them in the course but does not give them a student role, so they therefore cannot complete the course. To get around this, we run a daily SQL query which looks for enrolled without a role, and then uploads them via csv as a student in the course - and all is happy in the world.
Kind regards
Peter
Good suggestion Peter but yes, all participants in the course have a student role; the site is not open for guests.
Thanks Peter your solution worked perfectly.
hello sir,
I got solution course completion is checked when all activities in course are completed.To get that:
In server - > scheduled tasks run the service calculate regular completion data. Then the problem will be
solved that is course completion check box will be enabled.
Thanks and Regards,
Venkata Vinodh Kotha
Hello all
I had a similar issue: all activities completed but the course completion did not update accordingly and was showing 0 activities completed.
It was a brand new install and the problem got fixed as soon as the Moodle's cron job setup was completed.
We ran it first on the command line and then every ninute using the Cpanel cron job console as explained here:
https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Cron_with_Unix_or_Linux
... and that's it: the course completion status is now updated as completed automatically as expected!
Thanks for pointing to the Cron issue.
Hi I'm very new to moodle and with the help from this forum I've been able to resolve most of issues except one.
I have a similar issue as previously described, I'm running on the MoodleCloud, so I am not sure whether I can access the cron-job to change it or run it - it appears to be blocked off.
My activities are all saying they are completed, and the dashboard is saying 100% but one of my courses is not moving across to the Past tab.
I have 2 courses the exact same setting both have 100% complete all flags are ticked, but one has moved to the Past tab and one has not.
I have checked that the cron-jobs are running but there is no movement into the past tab.
Both courses have weighted scaling on the grade book.
I'm running the test under a student login.
The past tab is populated by end date of the course, not completion.
Thanks so much for your feedback.
With my course I actually don't have an end date as my students are generally new employees in a business and they could start at any point and end at any point so I have had to leave the End Date open. I've attached the screen print below - I'm assuming this is the course end date that your referring too.
Any other suggests
But have you checked the Embedded Movies course - I would bet it does have an end date...
Hi Emma
Thanks so much for the response - are you referring to the below screen?
As both my courses don't have the Date enabled for all of my URL links, score files etc.
Is there another setting I'm not aware of?
No, you said that the embedded movies course had moved to the past tab, I was just wondering if it did in fact have a course end date?
