When reviewing data in UniversitySite reports you may occassionally find that the date completed for a course is wrong, and in fact that it happens to be the date you actually recorded attendance, not the date of the event itself. If this is your situation please read on.
We provide the “Automatically compute completion status” checkbox on the attendance screen to support situations where you do not want to give someone a completion merely based on their attendance, but when additional requirements must be met, such as a quiz or homework of some kind.
If you are granting completions based on attendance only however, you should ALWAYS leave that box checked so that attendance and completions are marked simultaneously and so that the date recorded for this completion is the date of the attendance, not the date your recorded it.
If you DO uncheck that box, UniversitySite will record the completion date as the date you mark that completion. This is by design.
This checkbox is sticky on a course by course basis, so if you DO need to uncheck it for some courses, it should stay that way based on the status you had used for the last event of that course you recorded attendance for.
Tags: attendance, completion, date
