Single progress
The main objective of this development is to improve the performance of the LMS and provide it, in such an important part as the progress of users, with a more robust system. It goes from a model in which a student could have multiple progresses for the same course, to a new one in which the student will only have one progress per course, regardless of the number of trainings in which he is enrolled.
What is it?
This new functionality eliminates the need for validations between trainings of the same course, linking the user's progress only to the course-user relationship:
- avoids confusion by showing completed progress in a consistent manner
- simplifies tracking in training reports, administrators will see only actual progress without validation status, facilitating tracking and management
- allows students to maintain progress between trainings. If you start the course in one training and complete the first activities, even if you continue in a different training, you will still have the activities already completed
How does it work?
Previously, progress on the platform was recorded at the level of the training, user and course. So, if a user was enrolled in three trainings of the same course, there was a process called Validations that was responsible for replicating the user's progress to all the trainings in which the course and the user were involved.
This meant that if a user who was included in two trainings of the same course finished it in one of them, it was automatically validated in the other. However, when accessing the training in which he had not completed the course, he would see the course completed, but would not have the answers in the content, so it could appear that he had not completed it.
Thanks to the single progress this will not happen, since it will not be necessary to perform validations on the platform. As its name indicates, the progress will be single and will not be associated to the training-course-user relationship, but to the course-user relationship.
Therefore, the progress data will be the same in all the trainings: date of completion, grade, number of sessions, duration of the sessions...
How is this reflected in the portal?
For the Learner portal user, there will be hardly any change in the interface:
- if you have two trainings of the same course, the progress and answers will be synchronized and will be displayed in the same way in both of them
- the only change is that validated courses will no longer exist, they will have the same appearance as completed courses
In the Admin Portal only those screens in which the status Convalidated is present will be affected, which will change directly to Completed.
In the Training details menu, the Validations option will disappear.
In the Student progress tab, the Convalidated courses tab disappears.
In the Reports, the same progress will be reflected in all the trainings of the same course-user.
FAQ
What happens if I enroll again a student for a course he has already completed, but as Recommended?
Even if you have already completed the course previously, in the Learner portal the thumbnail will show the option to enroll, there will be no progress. Once you enroll, the course will appear as completed and the previous progress will be shown.
Do the Delete log (Student progress tab) and Mark as Completed (Learning progress tab) tools still work?
Yes, the important thing is that they will now affect all trainings of the same course.
If a student had different progress in different trainings of the same course, what is the result after implementing the Single progress?
In all cases the platform takes the most beneficial progress for the user, which means, from the progress data of the different trainings, only the one with the highest percentage of completeness will be retained.
If a student had session times in different trainings of the same course, what is the result after implementing the Single progress?
In this case the times of all the trainings are added together, and the result will be the total time reflected.
If the course for which the user was enrolled several times contains a Q&A test, what will the Detailed response report show?
In this case it depends on the date the trainings was completed:
- if it is prior to the implementation of the Single progress, the answer data will only be shown in the training that the student completed manually, not in the validated ones
- if it is after the Single progress, the same answer data will be shown in all the trainings.
I want to enroll a student in different trainings of the same course and I want him to have different progress, how can I do it with the Single progress?
The recommendation in this case is to create a new version of the content with the Versionate option, and then re-enroll the student. As it is a different version of the course, the Single progress would no longer have any effect.