How your progress is counted
Your progress is a count of lessons, not of questions. Every lesson in the course counts towards it.
What completes a lesson
- A lesson with nothing to submit — a video, a reading — completes once you have been through it. Moving on to the next one counts, because you went past it deliberately.
- A lesson with questions completes when you have answered them.
Reading counts as progress. A course that only counted the lessons with questions in them would under-report what you had actually done.
Why the total includes things you cannot reach
On a course that releases modules over time, the denominator is still every lesson in the course — including the ones that have not opened.
That is deliberate. The alternative is a bar that counts only what is available, reaches 100%, and then falls back to 60% the moment the next module arrives. Progress visibly going backwards for somebody who did nothing wrong is worse than progress that climbs slowly.
“Up to date” is not “finished”
Three different states, worth telling apart:
- Up to date — you have done everything currently open. There is nothing more you can do until the next part arrives.
- Finished — every lesson in the course is complete.
- Behind — there is something open that you have not done.
Things that do not affect it
- Re-reading a lesson. Going back over something never undoes it.
- Getting a question wrong. Progress counts whether you answered, not whether you were right. Your points are a separate figure.
- The course being reordered. Progress is recorded against the lesson itself, so a lesson that moves from fourth to sixth is still complete.
Where to see it
On the course page, and as ticks against each lesson in the outline. My Courses shows the same figure for every course you are on.