What is it?
Checklist is an open-source (GPL) activity module plugin that allows for a checklist to be created for students to work through.
Why use it?
- Have the choice of students or teachers checking off items
- Students can add their own notes to their checklist
- Dates can be added to items and exported to the Moodle calendar
- Teachers can comment on individual student progress
- Progress is exported to the gradebook
- Checklist items can be coloured
- Heading items without checkboxes
- Optional: Import list of current course activities and automatically check off as completed
Who can use it?
Tutors and course administrators can create checklist activities, review student progress, checkoff off progress and comment on progress.
Students are able to view the checklist, checkoff items and leave comments.
Before I start...
- 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
Content
How do I set one up?
Add a Checklist activity
- With editing enabled on your Moodle course, click Add an activity or resource in the desired section and select Checklist
- Enter a Name and Description (which you can optionally display on the course page directly)
- Most of the time you can leave a checklist on default configuration but there are some options to be considered under Settings
- User can add their own items can be enabled to let students populate the checklist with their own items
- Updates by can be toggled between student only, teacher only or both student and teacher
- Add due dates to calendar allows for individual checklist items to be given a due date that's then displayed into the Moodle calendar
- Teachers can add comments can be disabled to if you don't wish to provide any feedback within the activity itself
- Maximum grade can be set to 0
- Email when checklist is complete can be set to send an email to the student, the teacher or both the student and teacher
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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%
- Scroll to the bottom and click Save and display
Adding and managing checklist items
Viewing Progress
Examples and case studies
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Further Information
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