This guide will outline the Release Conditions feature in Blackboard. For more information see Anthology’s Guidance on Release Conditions.
Hint: The effects of Release Conditions are aimed at users in the ‘Student’ role.
Types of release condition
Blackboard supports three possible forms of release condition and two unconditional forms of release. These are:
- Unconditional:
- Visible to students: the content is available on an open-ended basis without any condition.
- Not visible to students: the content is invisible on an open-ended basis without any condition.
- Release Conditions: the content may become visible or invisible to students depending on a range of criteria. These can be one or a combination of:
- Membership: content is only visible to certain members of the course or certain groups
- Date/Time: content is only available after a certain point in time, and/or until a certain point in time
- Performance: content is only visible to course members who have reached a certain performance criteria – such as achieving a score in a test, or achieving a certain grade via the Learn Ultra GradeBook
You can create multiple rules and release conditions to support more complex branching logic within a course.
Setting a release condition
- On a piece of content, Folder or Learning Module, select on the ‘…‘ to the right of the item
- Select ‘Release Conditions‘
- When the new window opens choose a criteria (or several) for the conditional release of content
- Select ‘Save‘
- When you have added a release condition, you can add an additional rule by clicking on the ‘Add Rule’ option in the left-hand menu
How do I know that the right students can see/not see my content? You can use your Student Preview User to test Release Conditions for piece of mind or for more complex performance or membership-based criteria.