General Course Administration

Release Conditions
Release Conditions allow you to make Modules and Content Items visible to individuals and groups of students based on certain criteria and/or performance.  For example, a Module can be locked until a student completes a previous Module’s quiz and earns an 80% or higher; perhaps a final paper is unlocked upon submission of a draft.

Setting Up Release Conditions

To set a Release Condition click the action arrow [V] next to the Content Item’s name and select “Edit Properties in Place” from the dropdown menu.  Choose “Add Dates & Restrictions” and click the “Add Release Condition” link.

Select the Condition; in this example we’ll select a Condition Type of “Score on a quiz” and select the appropriate quiz.  The score criteria is earning a perfect score of 100% on ‘Cat Quiz 1.”  Clicking the Create button will prevent students from accessing “Cat Assignment 1” until they earn 100% on Cat Quiz 1!

Considerations

A few ideas to keep in mind are:

• • students cannot see Release Condition and until those are met, Content can’t be accessed so instructors need to explain the context of a student’s performance
  • it is possible to create circular reasoning – Assignment 1 must be completed before Assignment 2, but Assignment 2 must be completed before Assignment 1) – so go over your conditions just in case!
  • once a student meets a Release Condition, that condition is met!  There is no way to reset it!
  • if a Grade Item has a Release Condition, that information appears in this way (for an instructor only):

Tracking Student Engagement