As well as publishing and unpublishing modules to determine what students have access to, another method for determining when and what students can access is by adding requirements and prerequisites. This basically means that certain content will only be released to students (automatically) once other content or activities in the course have been completed.
- You can’t
access week 2 files until
you’ve looked at the files from week
1
- You can’t access the notes
for week 2 until after the end of this
week
Requirements and prerequisites act on a unit level. This means that
you can only make Units (as opposed to
individual pages, files, etc.)
automatically available or unavailable.
To use content control and release in Canvas, complete the following steps:
- From your module navigation in Canvas, click Units.
- Click the options icon
(⋮) on the
unit that you want use content control on.
- Select Edit.
Optional: To only make the unit available after a specific date, select the Lock Until checkbox and choose a date and a time.
- Optional: To only make a unit
available after certain requirements
have been met, click Add
requirement.
- Click Students must complete all of
these requirements and select
the requirements from the drop-down
list. Add multiple requirements by
clicking Add requirement.
Select the Students must move
through requirements in sequential
order if you have multiple
requirements you want your students to
complete in sequential order before
making the unit available.
- Click Students must complete one of
these requirements and select
requirements from the drop-down list.
Add multiple requirements by clicking Add requirement. Students will
only need to complete one of the
requirements before making the unit
available.
- Click Update unit.
This means the unit will only be
available after midnight Oct
25th.