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• Do you want students adding their own checklist items?
• Do you want due dates to appear in the calendar?
• Do you want teachers marking items as complete?

Meeting the baseline

The UCL E-Learning Baseline suggests the following for Structure:

• 1.5 Guide students as to which task to complete next. This may include appropriate use of conditional release, so tasks are hidden until prerequisite tasks are completed, or until a certain date.

The Orientation category suggests that you:

• 2.2 Explain participation requirements:
  • Identify which activities are compulsory and optional.

How do I set one up?

Add a Checklist activity

1. With editing enabled on your Moodle course, click Add an activity or resource in the desired section and select Checklist
2. Enter a Name and Description/Introduction (which you can optionally display on the course page directly)
3. Most of the time you can leave a checklist on default configuration but there are some options to be considered under Settings
   1. User can add their own items can be enabled to let students populate the checklist with their own items
   2. Updates by can be toggled between student only, teacher only or both student and teacher
   3. Add due dates to calendar allows for individual checklist items to be given a due date that's then displayed into the Moodle calendar
   4. Teachers can add comments can be disabled to if you don't wish to provide any feedback within the activity itself
   5. Maximum grade can be set to 0
   6. Email when checklist is complete can be set to send an email to the student, the teacher or both the student and teacher
   7. Show course modules in checklist can be set to pre-populate the checklist with the activities and resources from either the specific section a checklist is in or the entire course
   8. Check-off when modules complete is only applicable when showing course modules within the checklist. This will automatically mark a checklist item as complete based on the configured activity completion criteria with the optional ability for the student to override it within the checklist.
   9. Lock teacher marks will restrict the ability to change the yes or no completion marking on a checklist item once a teacher has given a completion mark
4. If you're using completion tracking on your course, the Activity Completion criteria can configured to automatically mark the activity as complete when the percentage of items ticked off is set to 100%
5. Scroll to the bottom and click Save and display

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