LearnWorlds provides the flexibility to either use default completion rules or create custom for each learning activity, ensuring that course designers can effectively align learning objectives with student engagement.
Customizable completion rules can also help in accurately tracking student progress and ensuring that the learning outcomes are met.
In this article, we will review the available learning activity completion rules and explore methods for tailoring them to specific needs.
| 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. |
To see the available completion rules, navigate to Courses → Course manager, navigate to your desired course, and click on Course settings → User progress.
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
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 to the default one or "Edit" it.
- 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 Course outline, find the activity you wish to set a unique completion rule to, and click on the Settings option to 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 (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) |
| Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Ebook | When visits the Ebook |
| Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| When visits the PDF | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | |
| SCORM/HTML5 package | When visits the SCORM/HTML5 package | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Youtube video | When visits the Youtube video | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| SoundCloud | When visits the Soundcloud | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Audio | When visits the Audio | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | tays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Zoom Meeting | When joins the session | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining |
| Zoom Webinar | When joins the session | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining |
| Webex meeting | When joins the session | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after joining |
| 1:1 session | When joins the session | - | - |
| Group session | When joins the session | - | - |
Exam | When meets the required pass mark | - | - |
| Graded SCORM | When meets the required pass mark | - | - |
| Self-assessment | When visits the Self assessment | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Form | When submits the Form | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Certificate | When meets the required pass mark | - | - |
| Certificate of completion | When claims the certificate | - | - |
Embed | When visits the Embed | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| Slideshare | When visits the Slideshare | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting |
| External link | When visits the External link | Stays at least X seconds on the learning activity after visiting | Stays 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).
1. In the admin analytics, the course appears as completed, but the newly added activity will show as not completed. 2.The learner will see the course as incomplete, with the new activity impacting their overall progress, reducing it from 100%.
If you choose the default one, the ebook learning activity will be considered complete when a user 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 new learning activities are added to a course after a user has completed it, the following occurs:1. In the admin analytics, the course appears as completed, but the newly added activity will show as not completed.
2. The learner will see the course as incomplete, with the new activity impacting their overall progress, reducing it from 100%.
To ensure the course appears completed in the user experience, the learner must complete the new activity, or the admin must manually update the progress for users in the Learning Center plan and above.