Release conditions in Brightspace courses

About This Article

This article demonstrates how to create and attach release conditions on D2L course components. It is intended for instructors who are either using Desire2Learn or interested in using this instructional management system in the future.

How release conditions work

Customizing learning with release conditions

Release conditions allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you attach a release condition to an item, users cannot see that item until they meet the associated condition. For example, you could attach a release condition to the second topic in your course’s content area that would hide that topic until users viewed the topic before it. Or you could create a condition that required users to view a content topic before gaining access to a quiz, or one that required them to post to a discussion topic before they could see a content module.

If you attach multiple conditions to an item, users must meet all conditions before they can access the item. For example, you could require users to visit the first three content topics in a unit before gaining access to an associated quiz.

Best practices

D2L has defined a detailed list of best practices around the use of release conditions. You can see their list of best practices on D2L's Help site

Once you get to the D2L's Help site, click To learn best practices for creating release conditions to expand the list of best practices.

Brightspace tools that support release conditions

You can access release conditions for any of the following course items:

• Announcements items
• Awards
• Checklist
• Content modules and topics
• Custom widgets
• Discussion forums and topics
• Assignments
• Grade items and categories
• Intelligent Agents
• Quizzes
• Surveys

Accessing release conditions

1. Navigate to the course item you want to add release conditions to.
2. From the context menu of the course item, click Edit [course item].
3. Do any of the following:
   • To access release conditions for a discussion forum or topic, checklist, assignment, grade item, quiz, or survey, click the Restrictions tab.
   • To access release conditions for a custom widget, click the Release Conditions tab.
   • To access release conditions for an Announcements item, scroll to the Additional Release Conditions area.

Creating and using release conditions

Attaching release conditions to Content

Attaching release conditions to Quizzes