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Mastery, completion and graduation

Recompute mastery, evaluate completion against a rule, approve graduation and issue the certificate.

Staff portalWho: Academic managers and registrarsLast updated 3 September 2026
Flow

Results to certificate

Assessments passedCourseauto-completesProgramme rule:required courses +minimum electivesEvaluatecompletionApprove graduationCertificate issued

Diagram: Results to certificate. Steps:

  • Assessments passed
  • Course auto-completes
  • Programme rule: required courses + minimum electives
  • Evaluate completion
  • Approve graduation
  • Certificate issued

Connections:

  • Assessments passed → Course auto-completes
  • Course auto-completes → Programme rule: required courses + minimum electives
  • Programme rule: required courses + minimum electives → Evaluate completion
  • Evaluate completion → Approve graduation
  • Approve graduation → Certificate issued
Learner actionPallara does thisStaff actionDocument / file

Mastery

  1. Open Course design → Learning Mastery and select Recompute. Each learner's level on each aligned outcome — Not Yet, Working Towards, Achieved or Exceeded — is recalculated from the aligned assessment results; the cards count learners, aligned outcomes, achievement and credits awarded.

Completion

  1. Open Teaching → Completion. Each learner shows requirements met, percentage and status.
  2. Under Evaluate completion, choose a learner in Limit evaluation to one student (or leave it blank for everyone). Tick Dry run to see what would change without writing anything.
  3. Select Run evaluation. Expect Evaluation complete — completion records are up to date.
Completion: learners, their requirement counts, and the completion rules per programme.
FIG. 1Completion: learners, their requirement counts, and the completion rules per programme.

Completion rules

  1. Under Completion rules, select the pencil on the programme card.
  2. Classify each course as Required, Elective or Not counted; set Minimum electives required; tick or clear Auto-complete this programme.
  3. Select Save rule. The card changes from Defaults (from course flags) to Rule set. The bin icon removes a rule after confirmation.

Graduation and certificate

  1. Open Administration → More → Graduation. Confirm the learner has 100% progress, all requirements met and no certificate yet.
  2. Select Approve and accept the confirmation. The status changes to Graduated.
  3. Select Certificate. The Certificate column changes from Not issued to Issued.
Graduation: progress, requirements, approval and certificate issue for each candidate.
FIG. 2Graduation: progress, requirements, approval and certificate issue for each candidate.
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