DCAD Digital Help Guides

What a student sees

Before a student has accessed content, the Progress icon is an empty circle:

After a student has accessed content, the Progress icon is a half-filled circle:

For items that are submitted, the Progress icon turns to a green checkmark to indicate that the item is completed. If the item does not have a submission option, such as an Blackboard Document, students  will have to mark the item as complete themselves.

When the student opens a learning module there is also a Table of Contents. For learning modules with multiple items, the student will see a Start button.

The student will then see the Table of Contents on the left. Individual items within the learning module will display one of the Progress icons above. In this example the student has completed the first item, however the second is currently locked pending the completion of other activities. Clicking the arrow to the right of ‘Contents will collapse the contents.

If sequencing is enforced, students will need to use the Next and Previous buttons to move through the content in order. They will be unable to jump ahead using the table of contents until they have completed each required activity.

The Student Progress tab

The Progress tab tracks individual student progress in a course. You can see completed and uncompleted tasks for each student. You can access the tab by selecting Progress in a student’s Student Overview. Content displayed on the Progress tab depends on the content availability. By default, the Content availability filter is set to Visible to students. Select All from the Content availability menu dropdown to see content that isn’t visible to students in addition to visible content. Content that isn’t visible to students has a lock icon beside it.

Student Progress Report for course content

Staff can generate a report about what content has ben accessed by the entire student cohort. There are two ways to access this report.

The first way is to select the ellipsis menu beside the content and then select Student Progress to access the Student Progress report. 

The second way is to bring up the content’s page and then select the Student Progress tab.

You can see the progress that students mark for the following content types:

• Documents
• SCORM packages
• Uploaded files
• Links
• Cloud documents
• LTI content with no associated grade
• Learning modules
• Folders

The report allows you to select content and view:

• Students who have not yet opened content
• Students who have accessed content
• Students who have marked the content as complete