This article provides teachers insight on customizing course progression within their Learning Management System (LMS).
Forced progression is often determined by a teacher, based on student needs, content delivery, and class expectations.
After gauging your students’ learning needs and styles, adjust your content in a way that best suits them. For example, if you have students who learn best by seeing and doing, you may want to publish and activate Teach Its, Practice Its, and Show Its.
On the course level, a course may be able to be set with rolling enrollments where the LMS creates due dates and adjusts according to start and end dates. Others allow teachers to set due dates manually.
On the content level, teachers may be able to adjust forced progression by preventing a student from moving through course content freely. Forced progression can be set up for one student, a group of students, your entire class, all content, or specific content levels depending on the LMS.
Most LMSs have similar content setting restrictions.
- Student must complete the current activity before continuing onto the next activity makes the current activity required.
- Blocking access until student completes another activity forces a student to complete an activity or a series of activities before accessing the current activity.
- Blocking access until student masters a standard blocks the current activity until a student has mastered the pre-requisite standards you have associated.
- Student enters a password to access the activity requires a student to enter a password to access the activity.
IMPORTANT: Adding customized forced progression within a course may require the desired steps to be repeated per desired stop-gap. This may be at an assessment level, a lesson level, a topic level, or other designated locations identified by the teacher.
Online course progression can vary based on LMS.
Customizing Progress in the LMS
Each LMS offers a variety of features that can modify and customize progression. Select your LMS to see more information for your LMS.
If you do not see your LMS listed, visit your LMS help center for assistance.Buzz
Buzz provides opportunities to apply forced progression requirements at the course, module, lesson, and activity level.
IMPORTANT: Only clients using Lincoln Learning Content in Buzz through Pulse can request Forced Progression on an entire course. Click here to learn more.
TIP: Review the Visibility and access section of the Custom activity editor article in the Agilix Buzz Help Center to learn more. Advanced activity options of the same article will provide additional options for progression.
Additional Buzz Resources
How do I manage course folders?
How do I make an activity's visibility dependent on competency mastery?
How do I manage Due dates, Visibility dates, and Grade release dates (Scheduling tab)?
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Canvas
Canvas provides opportunities to apply progression requirements at the module level. This can range from full module completion to specific items to complete.
TIP: Review the How do I add requirements to a module? and How do I add prerequisites to a module? details from the Canvas Help Center to learn more.
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Schoology
Schoology provides opportunities to apply progression requirements at the course or module level. This can range from full module completion to specific items to complete.
TIP: Review the Student Completion Rules Schoology resource to learn more.
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