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Restricting access within a course, and how to manage course completion

 
Annika Whitford
Restricting access within a course, and how to manage course completion
di Annika Whitford - Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 00:43
 

Good morning All, 

I'm starting to think my plan is not possible on my Totara 13 site! I am trying to set up a course that is available for different people in my organisation. Some of them are enrolled onto an external qualification, and I was hoping I could have a section within the course that is only available to them, as a formal assessment. For anyone else, they can view the training material and do any of the non graded 'test yourself' quizzes and it's more of a development and learning exercise rather than formal assessment. The problem I'm finding is that trying to set course completion is now not going to work. I need to set completion conditions for the formal assessment so the people who need to do that will only show as complete when it's done, but because it's a restricted activity that means anyone else who has access will never get 100% course completion and it will sit on their enrolled learning forever which I'm trying to avoid! Is there any way of having different completion settings depending on say someone's audience/position so I could try and align completion based on what they can see? Hopefully that makes sense. 

For example...
Course content Learner 1 Learner 2 Completion required?
Learning material (powerpoints etc) x
Test yourself quiz
Formal assessment (restricted) x √ (only for learner 1)

If this won't work, the only option I can think of is to put the formal assessments into a standalone course and perhaps provide a restricted hyperlink instead...


Any thoughts welcome :) 

Jordan Ash
Re: Restricting access within a course, and how to manage course completion
di Jordan Ash - Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 06:00
Gruppo TotaraGruppo TXP Site Administrator

Hi Annika,


One way to do this could be to have two duplicate versions of the test yourself quiz on the course page, and use restrict access so that each one is only visible to one of two audiences.

You could then change the course completion requirements so that the user either needs to complete Test yourself quiz (Audience A) or Formal Assessment (Audience B).

You could also restrict access of Formal Assessment (Audience B) until the user had completed Test yourself quiz (Audience B).


If you use this option, I'd recommend you draw from a question bank for the duplicated quiz, so that you don't need to edit two quizzes if you want to tweak a question in the future.