Preview the student completion experience
In this article: How to see the Mark as Complete button the way your students see it, and how to test the full student experience in your course. All Plans
Before You Start
When students work through your course, they click a Mark as Complete button at the bottom of each lesson to track their progress and move to the next lesson. As the course creator, you see a slightly different version of this button. Here's how each view works, and how to test the real student experience.
What You See as the Course Creator
From your view as the course creator (guide), the Student View of each lesson shows a button at the bottom that looks like this:
This button lets you navigate between lessons, but it doesn't include the "Mark as Complete" label or track completion. That's by design: as the creator, your progress isn't tracked the same way a student's is.
What Students See
When a student is enrolled in your course, the button at the bottom of each lesson includes the words Mark as Complete and looks something like this:
Clicking this button marks the lesson complete and moves the student to the next lesson. It combines two actions in one click: progress tracking and navigation.
Test the Full Student Experience
To see your course exactly as a student sees it, enroll in your own course using a different email address:
- Create a second Ruzuku account with a different email than your guide account.
- Enroll that account in your course (you can send a free invitation to your test email).
- Open the course from your test student account and work through the lessons.
This gives you the full student view, including the Mark as Complete button, progress tracking, and the course sidebar.