Using groups and release conditions, you can choose to restrict certain materials in your VIULearn course and allow only a specific group of students to be able to see and complete those materials.
Consider adding group based restrictions in the following situations:
- You have given students a choice between two different assignments that they can complete in the course. Each of these assignments will have its own unique set of instructions. Consider creating a # of groups - self enrolment group category and allow students to choose which assignment they will complete.
Then, upload the different instructions for those assignments to a content module and add a release condition so that students have to be enrolled in a specific group in order to see the instructions for that assignment. This way, they will only see the instructions for the specific assignment that they have chosen to complete. - You have a HUB course in VIULearn containing all the students from your program. You would like to make it so that certain resources in the HUB course are only visible to students who are in their 4th year.
You can do so by creating a Group Category containing four different groups (1st year students, 2nd year students, 3rd year students and 4th year students. You can then add a release condition to those resources and make it so that only students who are enrolled in the 4th year students group can see and access those resources.
Creating Release Conditions
This page assumes you have already created the groups you want to use to restrict content access.
- From the course navigation bar, select Content.
- Navigate to the module or sub-module that contains the materials you wish to restrict.
- Click the Bulk Edit button.
- Click the Add dates and restrictions... text underneath the module, sub-module, or content item that you wish to edit.
- Click the white Create button.
- If you have already created the release condition once, click the Browse button and choose the release condition you wish to attach. Then skip to step 9.
- If you have already created the release condition once, click the Browse button and choose the release condition you wish to attach. Then skip to step 9.
- Click the Select Condition Type input field. Choose Group Enrolment from the drop-down menu.
- Select the name of the specific group you wish to restrict the content to.
- Click the blue Create button.
- Click the blue Update button.
- Once you have finished, click the Done Editing button.
- From the course navigation bar, select Assessment > Quizzes.
- Click on the name of the quiz you wish to edit.
- Click the Availability Dates & Conditions tab.
- Click Add Release Condition. Choose Create New to create and attach a brand new release condition.
- If you have already created the release condition once, click the Add Existing option and choose the release condition you wish to attach. Then skip to step 8.
- If you have already created the release condition once, click the Add Existing option and choose the release condition you wish to attach. Then skip to step 8.
- Click the Select Condition Type input field. Choose Group Enrolment from the drop-down menu.
- Select the name of the specific group you wish to restrict the quiz to.
- Click the blue Create button.
- Once you have finished, click the blue Save and Close button.
- From the course navigation bar, select Assessment > Assignments.
- Click the downward arrow next to the name of the assignment submission folder in question. Select Edit Assignment from the drop-down menu.
- Click the Availability Dates & Conditions tab.
- Click Add Release Condition. Choose Create New to create and attach a brand new release condition.
- If you have already created the release condition once, click the Add Existing option and choose the release condition you wish to attach. Then skip to step 8.
- If you have already created the release condition once, click the Add Existing option and choose the release condition you wish to attach. Then skip to step 8.
- Click the Select Condition Type input field. Choose Group Enrolment from the drop-down menu.
- Select the name of the specific group you wish to restrict the assignment to.
- Click the blue Create button.
- Once you have finished editing, click the blue Save and Close button.