The relative completion plugin enables the teacher to make a specific course activity or section available when the previous activity or previous section has been completed. The availability criteria are thus depending on the relative course activity ordering. The plugin can help course creators to design a learning path that gradually unfolds when students complete learning activities.
The availability restrictions will have no effect when there is currently no previous activity or section. As with all availability restrictions relative completion can be combined with other criteria.
This plugin is an abstraction of the availability_completion plugin (developed by the Open University) that is now part the Moodles core functionality.
Below are some examples of the plugin in use.
Screenshot of the settings page of a course activity when adding a relative completion criterium.
Screenshot of the course creator's view after adding a relative completion condition.