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How to Customize Course Compliance Settings: Navigation & Completion Rules

User Navigation

You can specify whether users can navigate freely in the course contents or have to comply with specific restrictions under the Course player tab in any of your courses. 


Free navigation

If you choose this option (available on all our plans), users can navigate freely in your content without restrictions, so they can jump to any learning activity they want. 

Sequential navigation

With sequential navigation (available on our Pro Trainer plans or higher), the user has to "complete" each learning activity before continuing to the next. A typical choice for accreditation courses, and not only. The user can’t skip an activity before completing the previous one. A relevant message will appear, and if they try to visit another activity in the learning path, they will see it as locked.

Navigation with Prerequisites

Some of the activities are considered prerequisites to unlocking the activities that follow them (available on our Learning Center plans or higher). When you enable this choice, the sideform when editing a learning activity will also present a checkbox for setting this activity as a prerequisite.


Learning Activity Completion Rules

LearnWorlds provides the flexibility to use the default completion rule or adjust a custom one per learning activity, under the Course player tab in any of your courses. You can set completion rules if you have chosen free, sequential, or prerequisite navigation.


If you haven't created any learning activities within the course yet, you will see the "The most commonly used learning activities" message at the top and the "Show remaining activity types" at the bottom of the setting. Essentially, they will show the 5 most commonly used learning activities based on our statistics and the other activities that can be used.

If you have created at least one learning activity, you will see the learning activities that you currently use in the specific course; however, you can also see the available activity types by clicking on Show remaining X activity types.

Overview of Learning Activity Completion Rules

There are 4 columns, each column shows a different value. 

Learning activity type: The learning activity you wish to edit.

Default: Depending on the learning activity, you can see the "When visited", "When joined", "Successfully passed", "When claimed", and "When submitted" default completion rules.

Custom rule: If you set a custom completion rule, you will be able to see the rule you have set.

Actions: You can see whether you are able or not to customize the completion rules of the learning activity. If the completion rule of a learning activity is not customizable, you will see the "Non-customizable" indication.  If you have set a custom completion rule in a learning activity, you can click on "Restore" to restore back to the default one or "Edit" it.


  • The custom completion rules are available in our Learning Center plans or higher. In the Starter and Pro trainer plans, only the default rules are available.
  • Some learning activities are non-customizable. They have only the default rule; thus, they have the indication “Non-customizable”. 
  • Custom completion rules for videos apply only if you have selected the LearnWorlds interactive video player on your Player Appearance page.


Customize the Completion Rules

To set the custom completion rule per learning activity, you need to click on Customize further option (the pencil widget) under the Actions tab for the sideform to open so you can set the rules you wish. You can see the: 

  • Default option
  • Set up a global learning activity rule (these are different depending on the learning activity)
  • Set up your custom rule for each learning activity type by clicking on Settings by hovering over the specific learning activity.

When you pick a default completion rule for a learning activity type (let's say an ebook), that setting will apply to all ebook learning activities within the course. If you wish to set different completion rules for a specific learning activity within a course, you will need to set up the Custom completion rules. So, you need to go to the Contents tab → find the activity you wish to set a unique completion rule to → click on the Settings option, → set a unique Completion rule for the activity.


Learning activity types - Completion rules

In the following table, you will be able to see all the available learning activity types, their default completion rules, the custom completion rules (on the Learning Center and higher plans), and the custom completion rules per specific learning activity within the course. 


Learning activity types
Default Completion Rules/activity type
Custom Completion Rules/activity type
Custom Completion Rules/specific learning activity (Settings)
Video (interactive)When visits the Video (interactive)
  • Completes % of the learning activity’s time duration
  • Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting

Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting

EbookWhen visits the Ebook
  • Completes % of the auto-calculated reading time
  • Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
PDFWhen visits the PDFStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
SCORM/HTML5 packageWhen visits the SCORM/HTML5 packageStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
Youtube videoWhen visits the Youtube videoStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
SoundCloudWhen visits the SoundcloudStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
AudioWhen visits the AudioStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingtays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
Zoom MeetingWhen joins the sessionStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joiningStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining
Zoom WebinarWhen joins the sessionStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joiningStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining
Webex meetingWhen joins the sessionStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joiningStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining
1:1 session    When joins the session--
Group sessionWhen joins the session--

Exam

When meets the required pass mark--
Graded SCORMWhen meets the required pass mark--
Self-assessment  When visits the Self assessment    Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
Form    When submits the Form    --
Certificate    When meets the required pass mark--
Certificate of completionWhen claims the certificate--

Embed
When visits the Embed    Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
SlideshareWhen visits the SlideshareStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting
External linkWhen visits the External linkStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visitingStays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting

Here is an example of customizing an ebook completion rule. 


Click on Customize further in the Ebook learning activity under Learning Activity Completion Rules. In the side form, there are 4 available completion rules. The default one(in the ebook learning activity is the "When visited"), the % of the auto-calculated reading time, the Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting, and the custom one. The custom completion rule can be set in the Settings of each ebook that you create to set a unique completion rule for a specific ebook learning activity (the custom completion rule will have the 5 seconds after load rule by default unless you change it in the Settings of each learning activity).


If you choose the default one, the ebook learning activity will be considered complete when a user simply visits it. If you set 20% of the auto-calculated reading time, the activity will be considered completed when the user spends 20% of the ebook's auto-calculated reading time (180 words/minute).


If you wish to apply the Learning Activity Completion settings to all of your created courses, check the relevant setting under Apply Course Player settings to all other courses. If you edit the completion rules, you must re-apply the checkbox.

Event for Zapier/Webooks

If you use Zapier to fire a course completion event, the course player settings are where you can determine when this event happens exactly.

Note: If you enable the "Course is completed when the user passes all exam, assignments, and certificates" webhook, but the course has no Assessments or Certificates, then on the users' card and user progress reports (which are available only to the admins) the course will not be marked as completed. The users will be able to view their course as 100% completed on their end on their progress bar, but from the perspective of an admin and reporting manager, we suggest selecting the "course is completed when the user completes all the learning activities" to avoid any reporting confusion.

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