Conditional Release is a way to control access to certain sections or resources in the course. This prevents students from jumping around or moving ahead and releases the content when you, the instructor, are ready. This is helpful when the sequence of the sections are important. Or if you have an answer key to a quiz that you do not want to be seen before the students have taken the quiz.

Feature Settings

1. In your course, Turn Editing On.
2. Find the section you want to edit and click on the gear icon. This opens the settings.
3. Once in settings, scroll down to the Restrict Access section and click on the “Add Restriction” button.
4. A pop-up window will appear with restriction options:
   • Activity Completion
   • Date
   • Grade
   • Time Required
   • User Profile
   • Restriction Set
5. Choose the restriction you want, then input all the necessary settings. See instructions for each restriction on the following pages.
6. Click on “Save Changes” to exit.

Activity Completion Settings

Course completion tracking must be enabled before adding an access restriction based on Activity completion.

1. In “Student ____ match the following,” choose between the two options in the dropdown menu:
   • Must
   • Must not
2. Activity Completion [Choose Topic/Activity]
3. Then choose:
   • Must be marked complete.
   • Must not be marked complete.
   • Must be complete with pass grade.
   • Must be complete with fail grade.
4. If you want to add more activities or other restrictions, click on the “Add Restriction” button.
5. Click on “Save Changes” to exit.

Date Restriction Settings

1. Choose:
   • From
   • Until
2. Input the desired date.
3. Input the desired time. 23:55 is recommended.
4. Click on “Save Changes” to exit.

Grade Restriction Settings

1. Choose:
   • Activity
   • Quiz
   • Course Total
   • Forums
   • Forums Total
2. Check off either:
   • Must be greater than or equal to
   • Must be less than or equal to
3. Then input the grade percentage.
4. Click on “Save Changes” to exit.

Time Required Settings

Require students to spend a certain amount of time in the course by setting a time restriction.

1. Input hours
2. Input minutes
3. Check the box to have the time limit shown in the section block.
4. Click on “Save Changes” to exit.

User Profile Restriction Settings

1. Choose fields found in the user’s profile to restrict or allow access.
2. Then, select a qualifier:
   • is equal to
   • Contains
   • Does not contain
   • starts with
   • ends with
   • is empty
   • is not empty
3. Input the value to compare against.
4. Click on “Save Changes” to exit.

 

Restriction Set

A restriction set are nested restrictions to apply complex settings. You can select different restrictions from the list, but you can also do this with just adding restrictions.