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What is Conditional Release? Which Tools Have Conditional Release Options? Description of Condition Types How to edit Release Conditions How to Create and Attach Release Conditions Date and Time Availability Conditions Attach Existing Conditions Delete Release Conditions

What is Conditional Release?

Conditional Release is used to define the order in which a student accesses course materials. "Release" means "visible or accessible to students." The most commonly used release conditons are date and time. Yet D2L allows intstructors to define other types of conditions for release of material to students.

Some examples:
An instructor can use Conditional Release to specify that a Dropbox folder is available to a student/particpant only if he or she is registered for section number 002.
Only students/participants who have visited a link to the syllabus can take Quiz #1.
Students who score less than 60% on a quiz will see a link to a Content topic called "Post-Quiz Review: what was unit 3 all about?" 

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Which Tools Have Conditional Release Options?

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Description of Condition Types

In addition to date and time restrictions, release conditions can be based on many different criteria. A complete list of condition types follows:

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How to Edit/Create/Attach Release Conditions

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1. Go to the item which you want to release conditionally and click on the  edit icon.

For example: If you want to conditionally release a Dropbox folder, click on Dropbox in navigation bar near top of page. Then click on   to the right of the name of the folder on which you want to set conditions.  If you want to conditionallly release content, click on Content, then click on Manage Content, find the topic or module and click on the  in the row to the right.

2. Click on the tab labeled Restrictions

If you want to restrict access by date/time, click to choose the appropriate start date and time and/or end date and time.

If you want other conditions to determine whether or not a student has access to this item you will need to attach a condition. If no condition has been created you will need to create a condition.

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Create and Attach:

1. On the Restrictions tab, click the button labeled Create and Attach.  The Create a New Release Condition window appears.
2. Click on the dropdown menu to '-- Select Condition Type --'.  View description of Condition Types



3. Click on the condition that you want. Note: Do not click on the general type (Quizzes) but on a specific option like 'Score on a Quiz'.
4. Click on the dropdown menu that appears under Condition Details to select the group, topic, quiz, role, dropbox folder, etc. and to define criteria like maximum score.
5. Click  Create.
6. Click  Save.
   

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Attach Existing:

If release conditions have already been created for any item in the course site then follow the instructions below.

1. Click on the button labeled Attach Exisiting to select a previously created condition. The Attach Existing Conditions window will open with a  list of existing conditions.

2. Click in the checkbox to choose the Release Condition  you want. WARNING: If multiple condtions are chosen, ALL of the conditions must be met for the item to be accessible. In other words, if "Group 1" and "Adds 1 new message to Essay #1" are chosen BOTH of these conditions must be met before a student can access the item. It is not currently possible to create either/or release conditions.

3. Click Attach. 

4. Click Save.

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Delete Conditions:

1. Go to the tool and item that has Release Conditions.

2. Click on the

3. Click on the Restrictions tab

4. Click on the delete icon  . Be careful! You can delete all conditions or one condition at a time. If you press the delete icon next to Remove All Conditions, you will delete all conditions.

5. Click Save.

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