Adding Activities to Courses

How to add an activity to a course

To add an activity to a course, navigate to the main course page and click the 'Turn editing on' button in the top right hand corner: 

It will then show the below screen, to add an activity, click '+ Add an activity or resource': 

The below screen will then appear, this will give you all of the options of activities that you can add to your course. Select which activity you would like to add and then click the 'Add' button:

Adding information for default set up sections in activities

There are a number of set up sections that appear in all activities as standard, below is some information on what they are used for and how they can be useful in the set up of your activities.

Under the 'General' tab is where you input the name of the activity and add an optional description. To display the description of the activity on the course page, you will need to tick the box next to 'Display description on course page':

The next default section is availability, here you can set dates for when users can begin the activity and also set an expiry date. To enable either of these, you simply need to click the 'Enable' button next to either or both of the below and then enter the dates accordingly:

The 'Restrict access' tab allows you to add restrictions based on a number of different conditions including audience membership, activity completion, language and positions. To add a restriction, click the 'add restriction..' button: 

The next default section is 'Activity completion', this is where you will add the activity completion settings:

There are three different completion tracking options: 

• Learners can manually mark the activity as complete - this allows learners to mark the activity as complete themselves, rather than having to complete or read an activity. 
• Do not indicate activity completion - this means that there will be no completion tracking on the activity 
• Show activity as complete when conditions are met - this will show the activity as complete once the conditions outlined have been met, they have the option to either view the activity to show it as complete or have achieved a grade or submitted the work required.

You can also set a date that is expected to be completed, however this is not visible to users.