Understanding what student actions trigger the completion of text, PDF, and embedded page lesson types helps you review analytics with more clarity.
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Default lesson completion behavior
For most content types (such as text lessons and embedded content), a lesson will be marked as complete as soon as the lesson page loads for the first time. We will review the specifics for each lesson type in the related articles.
For all lesson types, there are settings and variables that can override the default behavior.
- At a course level in Courses > Individual Course > Course Details > Settings: Lesson Navigation, you can choose to Mark Lessons Complete When Audio or Video is Done.
- At an individual lesson level in Courses > Individual Course > Course Curriculum > Individual Lesson > Settings, you can choose to Disable Automatic Completion.
- If you choose to disable automatic completion, there are a few options for completing these lessons on behalf of your students:
- Dashboard: An admin can mark the lesson complete in the student’s profile page of the dashboard. Learn more: Editing a Student's Lesson or Course Progress.
- API calls: You or your development team can write API calls can to mark a specific lesson complete in Skilljar based on an outside trigger (e.g. doing a task in your application). Learn More: Marking Lessons Complete from External Services.
Lesson completion by lesson type
Text Lessons
- By default, a text lesson will be marked as complete as soon as the first time the lesson page loads.
- If you have selected Disable Automatic Completion in the lesson’s settings, to complete the lesson you must either:
- Manually mark the lesson complete. Learn more: Editing a Student's Lesson or Course Progress.
- Use an API to mark lessons as complete based on actions outside of your system, such as a custom simulation or tutorial. Learn More: Marking Lessons Complete from External Services.
Upload File: PDF
- By default, a PDF lesson will be marked as complete as soon as the first time the lesson page loads.
- If you have selected Disable Automatic Completion in the lesson’s settings, you must either:
- Manually mark the lesson complete. Learn more: Editing a Student's Lesson or Course Progress.
- Use an API to mark lessons as complete based on actions outside of your system, such as a custom simulation or tutorial. Learn More: Marking Lessons Complete from External Services.
Embed Link: Any Website (via iFrame), Box, Brightcove Video, Google Doc, Google Form, Google Groups, Haiku Deck, Kaltura Video, Nintex Form, Ooyala Video, Qualtrics Survey, Qzzr Quiz, Slideshare, SurveyMonkey, Vidyard Video
- By default, an embedded lesson will be marked as complete as soon as the first time the lesson page loads.
- If you have selected Disable Automatic Completion in the lesson’s settings, to complete the lesson you must either:
- Manually mark the lesson complete. Learn more: Editing a Student's Lesson or Course Progress.
- Use an API to mark lessons as complete based on actions outside of your system, such as a custom simulation or tutorial. Learn More: Marking Lessons Complete from External Services.