Hi,

I'm looking for some advice/ideas.

Practical/observable skills assessments are common practice in our organisation and I'm looking for the best and easiest way to capture and grade these in Totara.

The overall goal is to:

• provide the learner with multiple attempts to pass the assessment.  This will depend on the type of assessment, as some assessments will only allow 1 attempt.
• the learner will not need to perform anything in Totara themselves.
• the grade scale for the majority of assessments will be Not Yet Competent / Competent, which is setup in Totara.  If a learner is graded 'Not Yet Competent' for the 1st attempt, they obviously don't pass and are required to complete the assessment again.  If the 2nd attempt is graded as 'Competent' they in turn complete the course and the course is automatically marked as complete, based on the Course Grade being 100.
• each attempt must be recorded in Totara for reporting

I've tried adding 'Offline Activities' to a course and also set up a separate course shell (with no activities) and manually added grade items via Grade Administration > Categories and Items > Full View.  Each method seems to work to a point, as far as grading learners as Competent and Not Yet Competent and their course grades in the grade book update to 100%, but the overall course won't automatically mark as complete even though in Course Completion settings the only condition enabled is 'Course Grade - 100.0'.

I've attached a document with a couple of screen shots.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Michelle