Recommending specific tasks vs showing all tasks to do

We have a safety training app that shows "x To Do" items on the dashboard and we are trying to drive user engagement on specific components frequently ignored.

Do you think users would be more likely to work on completing tasks if there was a randomly chosen "next on the to-do list" in addition to the currently existing "x surveys to do, x policies to review".

The thought is by making the decision of what to do next for the user they will complete more, and the worry is we are just adding more noise of things to do for the user.

Example dashboard: