Project milestones are a standard set of checkpoints which apply to all of your projects. This is separate from the task feature where faculty and students can delegate unique tasks within each project. Your milestones and phases can be edited at anytime. This article explains how.
To see how students use milestones, click here.
Milestone dashboard
- Click Dashboard and review all student progress against your milestones in one place
- Depending on your number of milestones and teams, this may take a while to load. There is a lot of data and documents being loaded in the background.
- Click on the checkbox icon to see which student(s) have completed the milestone and any assignments or documents that have been submitted. The key below is for the various milestone types and their completed/incomplete states:
Milestone types and options
- Student milestones
- Can be visible or invisible to clients on a per-milestone basis
- Set to either Team Milestone (the entire team acts as one here and any student can complete/submit) or Individual Milestone where each student is required to complete
- (available with the Canvas Native integration) assignment points can be listed for the milestone and linked to an assignment in your Canvas course.
- Client milestones (new for fall 2019)
- Can be visible or invisible to students on a per-milestone basis
For all milestone types, they can have a due date linked to them (this sends an email notification automatically when due), files attached to them (e.g. a reference document like an NDA template or presentation guidelines) and Milestone Details which is where you can enter instructions for the students or clients to view and you can group milestones in Phases.
Phases
These are simply groupings of milestones and are entirely optional. Common phases are a "pre-project phase" a "design phase" and a "delivery phase" as an example.
Late milestone submissions
The dashboard indicates any late milestone submissions. Click on the milestone to see a detailed view of submission time and dates including overall team submissions and individual student submissions. Anything added after the due date (including additional follow-up submissions) will be flagged in red.
Downloading milestone submissions
To download submissions for a given milestone across all of your projects: click the download button under the milestone name highlighted below in red:
To download a submission for a specific project, click the milestone completion icon for that project and click the file name under Project Attachments (or click the trash icon to delete it):
Completing or approving milestones as an Instructor
As an instructor, you can check a project's milestones off to validate or approve the milestone submission. To do this, click into a project and click the milestone completion box next to the milestone you want to complete. This switches the icon to the Instructor Verified () so students can easily confirm approval. If you click the icon again, it displays as Instructor Declined (
) and if you click a third time it resets it to the normal milestone icon.