Add Dates and Restrictions

1. Select Content from the course navigation bar. 
   
   
2. Click on the Module or Sub-Module in question.
   
   
3. Click the Bulk Edit button.
   
   
4. Click the Add dates and restrictions... text below the Module, Sub-Module, or Content Topic in question.
   • Add a Start Date, Due Date, or End Date, by clicking on the appropriate field and selecting a date from the pop up calendar. 
5. Click the blue Update button.
   
   
6. Click the Done Editing button. 

Create all of your course materials and set up your Release Conditions before the course opens to users. This gives you a chance to check for mistakes in the conditions or for circular, contradictory, or unnecessary conditions. If you add new Release Conditions after users have accessed the course, users might be confused by resources disappearing. Since conditions cannot be reset, you also risk having users meet conditions before your resources are ready (e.g., accessing a Content Topic before it is finished).

Each condition you associate with a tool takes additional time for VIULearn to process. Using as few conditions as possible to set up a learning path minimizes the amount of time that users spend waiting for pages to load.

For example, you set up a Content Topic, a Quiz, and an Assignment Submission folder for the second week of class. You want users to read the Topic before taking the Quiz, and you want them to read the Topic and attempt the Quiz before submitting the week’s work to the Assignment Submission folder. For the Assignment Submission folder, you only need to attach the condition that users attempt the Quiz. Since users must read the Content Topic before they can take the Quiz, it is not necessary to add this condition to the Assignment Submission folder.

A circular reference makes it impossible for users to satisfy a set of conditions. For example, if you set the condition that users must view a Content Topic before they can access an Assignment Submission folder, and then set a condition that they must submit a file to the Assignment Submission folder before they can access the Content Topic, you have a circular reference. Users can’t satisfy either condition without satisfying the other one first.

Circular references are more likely to occur with long chains of conditions. For example, a Content Topic that depends on a Quiz that depends on a Assignment Submission folder that depends on a checklist that depends on the Content Topic.

Ensure that your conditions are not impossible for users to satisfy. For example, a condition that users must achieve greater than 100% on a Grade Item would be impossible (unless bonus marks are available for the item). If users are unable to satisfy a condition, they are unable to access the content or tools to which the condition is attached.

Contradictory conditions occur when two or more conditions that cancel each other out are associated with an item. For example, the conditions “User must achieve greater than 49.9% on Grade Item 1” and “User must achieve less than 50% on Grade Item 1” are contradictory. Users could not satisfy both conditions at the same time; they would not be able to see the item associated with these conditions.

1. Select Content from the course navigation bar. 
   
   
2. Click on the Module or Sub-Module in question.
   
   
3. Click the Bulk Edit button.
   
   
4. Click the Add dates and restrictions... text below the Module, Sub-Module, or Content Topic in question.
   
   
5. Click the Create button to create and add a Release Condition.
   
   
6. Use the drop down menus to select the conditions students must meet before the content item is visible.  Once you select a condition from the first drop down menu, additional configuration options will appear. Items in the first drop down menu are organized by tool. 
   
   
7. When you have finished setting your conditions, click the blue Update button to save your changes.
   
   
8. Once you have finished making changes, click the Done Editing button to exit the Bulk Edit mode. 

1. Select Content from the course navigation bar. 
   
   
2. Navigate to the module or sub module where you want to add a release condition.
   • If you want to add a release condition to a specific topic,  click the Bulk Edit button
     
     
3. Click the Add dates and restrictions... text below the Module, Sub-Module, or Content Topic you want to restrict access to. 
   
   
4. Click the Browse button to view and select from a list of conditions you have previously set up in the course. 
   
5. Check the box next to the condition you want to attach and click  Attach. 
   


6. Click the blue Update button to save your changes.
   
   
7. Click the Done Editing button. 
   
   

1. Select Content from the course navigation bar. 
   
   
2. Find and click on the Module or Sub-Module that you want to hide.
   
   
3. Click the eyeball icon on the right side of the page (across from the "Add Dates and restrictions..." option).
   
   
4. Click the toggle button to change the Module from visible to hidden. 
   
   
5. Your change will be saved automatically and you will see a confirmation pop-up at the bottom of the page.

1. Select Content from the course navigation bar. 
   
   
2. Find and click on the Module or Sub-Module where the Content File/Topic you wish to hide is located.
   
   
3. Click the grey Bulk Edit button. 
   
   
4. Click the eyeball icon next to the File/Topic you wish to hide from learners.
   
   
5. Click the toggle button to change the File/Topic from visible to hidden. 
   
   
6. Repeat steps 4-5 for each File/Topic you wish to hide in that Module or Sub-Module.
   
   
7. Once you are finished, scroll back up to the top of the page and click the blue Done Editing button.