Release content

Use visibility settings and release conditions to define when students can view and access course content.

On the Course Content page, you can access the visibility setting for each item and folder in your content list. In the visibility menu, select Release conditions to open the item's Release Conditions panel.

For example:

1. Decide if the students should be able to see that there are content available based on rules (show) or if not (Hide).
2. You can create multiple rules (see nr 6). The default will be Rule 1. Use the pen icon to edit the name of the rule.

With release conditions, you can set a combination of these rules:

3. Which course members or groups have access.
4. When the course content is accessible, visible, and hidden.

Hide after

5. What student performance is required, such as completing an assignment or scoring above a threshold on a test.

Multiple performance criteria
You can set more than one performance criteria per content item.

For example:

1. Students must complete coursework in a specific order and after they've demonstrated understanding. You want students to progress to the next item only after they score a B or above.
2. Students must score 70 points or higher on a quiz to access the Chapter 1 Test.

To set additional performance criteria, such as a second threshold the student must meet, select Add additional performance criteria.

Multiple rules

When you have a scenario where content should be released to a specific student at a specific time and also another group should have access to the content, you can use the multiple rule option where the content will display if a user adhere to either one of the rules (left side). Within a rule multiple criteria apply, i.e. the user and the date and time (right side).

Trouble shooting

If you're in a situation where you can't update a due date because of date/time release conditions, you can perform the following:

1. Remove the release conditions on the item that needs a new due date. You can set the item to "Hidden from students" and this will remove/strip all date/time release conditions.
2. After the release conditions are removed, change the due date.
3. After the due date is changed, apply your desried release conditions or set the item to "visible to students".

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