When to Use?
There are three rules for releasing content to students: Visible to students, Hidden from students, and Release conditions.
NOTE: these rules also apply to making content viewable to participants in an organization.
Instructors need to release course content based on performance criteria to sequence students on learning paths correctly. Sometimes they also need to release content to different groups using different criteria. For example, graduate students may be required to perform additional activities or perform at a higher level than other students. To support this needed flexibility, instructors can now create multiple rules for release conditions.
You can create rules for release conditions based on these criteria: date, time, and grade range performance criteria. You can also create rules for specific individual learners, groups, or for all members.
Procedure
Releasing content to students can be accomplished from two separate locations, the link to the content from the Content area of the course or the settings for the item when creating or editing content.
Content Area
Settings Area When Creating or Editing Content
When Release conditions is selected, the Release Conditions layer opens showing the conditions that can be selected for releasing content to students.
Grade Visible to Students in Gradebook When Item is Hidden by Release Conditions
An option to 'Hide' selected content from students is available. This setting also hides the grade from the student view of the gradebook.
Instructors can set release conditions without concern of hiding grades. Regardless of the setting in "When will content appear?", students can see the grade. All other functionality of release conditions is unchanged.
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Image 2. Student gradebook view with display of student’s grade regardless of the release condition setting in Image 1
