How do you mark activities as optional?

Maureen.B.923

As per the latest release notes, "the activity completion tracking in New Learner Experience (LX) no longer includes optional activities. "

 

How do you mark activities as optional or required? It seems like everything I add to my content is listed as Required.

 

Edited to add some context:

• I'm a super admin
• Our courses usually only consist of Units, HTML pages, and embedded links to tools such as Discussions, Assignments, and Quizzes

Sue.H.848

From what I can see, that can only be done with content completion marks in the previous experience. Items that are set to "not required" seen as dashes -- in Classic Content, are now going to be labeled as optional in the New Content Experience. At least this is an improvement when turning on NCE for existing courses, so I'm glad about the update.

 

Hoping there will be an obvious way to mark items as optional in the NCE soon. I can't find a way to do this without switching back.