📣 Feature coming out on the week of May 4th, 2026.

What is Course Completion Criteria?

Course Completion Criteria is a feature that lets educators and course administrators define exactly what a learner needs to do to be considered "complete" in a course. Instead of completion being automatically tied to 100% progress through learning activities, you can now set richer requirements — such as achieving a minimum grade or completing specific graded items. These criteria become the single source of truth for certificates, prerequisites, and reporting across your course.

Who is this for?

This feature is relevant to:

• Educators (educators managing a class)

• Institution Administrators (setting up courses and classes)

Learners are not able to configure completion criteria, but they will see their completion requirements and current status on their My Progress page.

Why use Course Completion Criteria?

Setting clear completion criteria gives learners full transparency into what they need to achieve — and ensures that certificates, prerequisites, and reports all reflect a meaningful, consistent definition of success across your course.

Use cases

• A vocational training provider wants learners to complete at least 80% of learning activities and achieve an overall passing grade before being awarded a certificate.

• An Educator running multiple classes of the same course wants one class to require a passing score, while a pilot class has a lower threshold — without affecting each other.

• A university administrator wants specific graded assessments to be completed before a learner is marked as course complete, regardless of their overall grade.

• A competency-based course needs learners to achieve overall competency (rather than a numeric score) before completion is recognised.

• An educator wants learners to be able to check their own progress toward completion at any time, reducing the number of enquiries sent to the teaching team.

How to set it up

Note: Completion criteria are configured at the class (cohort) level, not the course level. This means different classes within the same course can have different completion requirements. Make sure you're working within the correct class before you begin.

1. Navigate to your course and open Course Setup, then select the Course Completion page.

2. Enable the criteria you want to apply by ticking the relevant checkboxes. You can enable one or more of the following independently:

   • Learning Activities — set a minimum percentage of activities a learner must complete (default is 100%).

   • Grade Items — select specific graded items from a checklist that learners must complete.

3. Configure the settings for each enabled criterion — for example, enter the minimum activity percentage or the passing score threshold.

4. Save your settings using the Save button.

5. To check what learners will see, navigate to the learner's My Progress page — each criterion will appear with a clear met/not met status indicator.

Setting up a new class? When using the Create a class dialog, you can opt to copy completion criteria from an existing class alongside other class settings like gradebook items and pre-enrolment survey questions.

Good to know

• Certificates are now linked to completion criteria. When a learner meets all configured criteria, their certificate is issued automatically. You'll find a Set course completion criteria link inside the Credential Setup page if you need to update your requirements.

• Grade items only require completion, not a passing score (in the current release). A grade item is considered complete once results have been released in the grade book — the learner's score on that item is not evaluated.

• Changing your criteria after a class has started will trigger a recalculation for all enrolled learners. Anyone who already meets the new criteria will be marked as complete. Existing completion dates for learners who were already marked complete will not be changed.