Content availability (Ultra)

What is content availability?

In Ultra courses you can control when and how content is made available to students. There are the simple avaialbility options of Available to students or hidden from students or the option to make content available according to specific release conditions. Release conditions allows you to release course content and activities based on rules that you determine. Rules can be created for individuals or groups based on criteria related to date, time, assessment scores or attempts, and the review status of other items in the course.

Why would I use content availability?

Making content Visible to students or Hidden from students is a simple way to control when your students can view particular content in your course, however this is a manual process. To automate content availability more advance Release conditions can be applied to content. 

Using Release conditions you can control what content is made available to which students and under what conditions they are allowed to see it. For example, you could:

• Allow only particular students access to a copy of an online exam with an extra time allocation.
• Check an online test by restricting access to a preview user (i.e. lastname_PreviewUser) and then complete the test as a student using the Student Preview tool.
• Share different materials with groups of students working on different projects.
• Allow students to review a particular resource or folder of material only after they have attained a minimum score on a test.