Tasks, and activity completion

Learnvia courseware modules consists of several tasks--lessons, homeworks, quizzes--containing activities that students complete. Such activities are usually questions that students answer, so we'll focus on questions here. Users may notice that the courseware reports two things per task: completion, and points. Completion is indicated via a circle on the left, and points on the right. Why two indicators?

Instructors set due dates for tasks. Much traditional courseware does not allow students to work after a due date. Learnvia courseware instead wishes to encourage students to complete tasks even after a due date, primarily because skipping content may yield learning gaps in critical content, and also because perhaps instructors might give an exception, provide partial credit, or even change the due date later. Thus, the courseware distinguishes between completion and points. 

Completion: For lessons and homeworks, a question is "complete" when correctly answered (with unlimited attempts, and solutions available). For quizzes, a question is complete when answered, correctly or not. The above circle with 100% indicates the percent of questions completed, in this case 8/8 pts. Note: Most questions are worth 1 pt; rare multi-point questions (typically long-answer questions) are treated as multiple 1-pt questions to calculate the %.

Points: Points indicate the number of questions completed before the current due date. Points are what will be transferred to a course's gradebook. After a due date, completion may increase, but points remain steady. At the moment a due date is reached, if completed points doesn't equal possible points, the activity shows two values on the right: the points earned by the due date, and the items completed up until now. A calendar icon appears to indicate the due date has passed. The below screenshot was taken on Aug 29, 3 days after the due date of Aug 26. 4 items were completed before the due date (4 / 12 pts), and 5 more after the due date yielding "Completed 9 / 12" on the right also, which is 75% (shown in circle on left). 

This distinction of completed and points might seem a little tricky at first, but we think it's worth it to encourage students to complete items even after a due date, for their own learning benefit, and just in case the instruction grants an extension or changes the due date. 

Note: Learnvia courseware does not require "submitting" a task by the due date. Instead, every item completed before the due date updates points; if the courseware is connected to a school system's gradebook, each point earned in the courseware almost immediately updates the gradebook. Thus, there's not an "all or nothing" situation, and no "I forgot to submit and got 0". Instead, students are earned partial credit all along the way. This approach should reduce student frustration and lost points, and should reduce complaints or extension requests received by instructors.