You use release conditions to set conditions for when a student gets access to certain course components. For example:

• Students cannot take the week two quiz until they have a score of 50% or higher on the week one quiz.
• Students can only respond to a discussion forum if they have created a thread themselves.
• Students cannot see the final assignment until they have submitted the partial assignments.

You can attach multiple release conditions to a component. For example:

• Students cannot see the final assignment until they have submitted the partial assignments and achieved a score of 50% or higher on the quizzes.

You can also add multiple release conditions to a component and set that students only have to meet one of these conditions. For example:

• Students will not be able to access week two learning materials until they have submitted week one assignments or achieved a score of 50% or higher on the quizzes or created a discussion thread.

You can attach release conditions to almost all parts in Brightspace. Below you can see which release conditions you can use for each component. 

As a student you can see this Activity/Content topic if you...

• Assignments:
  • ... submitted an assignment (Submission to folder).
  • ... have received feedback on a submitted assignment (Receive feedback on submission).
  • ... have received an assessment with the rubric (Score on associated rubric).
  • ... have not submitted anything (no submission to folder).
• Awards
  • ... have achieved a certain award (Award Earned).
• Checklists:
  • ... have completed the checklist (Completed checklist).
  • ... have completed a checklist item (Completed checklist item).
  • ... have not completed the checklist (Incomplete checklist).
  • ... have not completed a checklist item (Incomplete checklist item).
• Classlist:
  • ... are a member of a certain group (GroupEnrollment).
  • ... are a member of a particular course (Org Unit Enrollment).
  • ... are a member of a specific section (Section Enrollment).
  • ... do/do not have a certain role (Role in Current Org Unit).
  • ... a certain number of days are enrolled in the course (Date of Enrollment in Current Org Unit).
• Content:
  • ... have viewed a specific topic (Visited content topic).
  • ... have viewed all topics (Visited all content topics).
  • ... have not viewed a certain topic (Not visited content topic).
• Discussions (forums and topics):
  • ... have placed at least a certain number of posts or replies in a discussion topic (Posts authored in topic).
  • ... have received an assessment with the rubric (Score on associated rubric).
  • ... have not posted any posts in a discussion topic (No posts authored in topic).
• Grades (items and categories):
  • ... have achieved a certain score on a certain grade item (Grade value on a grade item).
  • ... have received an assessment with the rubric (Score on associated rubric).
  • ... have not received a grade (No grade received).
• Quizzes:
  • ... have achieved a certain score on a quiz (Score on a quiz).
  • ... have completed the quiz (Completed quiz attempt).
  • ... received an assessment on certain questions (Score on selected questions).
  • ... have received an assessment with the rubric (Score on associated rubric).
  • ... have not submitted the quiz (No completed quiz attempt).
• Surveys:
  • ... handed in the survey (Completed survey attempt).
  • ... have not submitted the survey (No completed survey attempt).

You can set release conditions for Activities (and Surveys), grades and for Content topics:

• For the Activities (and grades) you will find the release conditions under the Restrictions tab, for example for an Assignment. You will see the Release Conditions heading.
• For Content you will find the release conditions under Edit Properties In-place.

• For example, when making a new assignment, you will find the release conditions on the right side.
• Click Create new to create and add a new release condition.
• Click on Add Existing to add previously created release conditions to the part.

1. Choose which type of condition students must meet in order to see this component (in the example, a certain score on a grade item).
2. Fill in the details of the condition.
3. Click on Create.

• Then set whether the student must meet all the conditions or one of the conditions.

If you plan to make (a lot of) use of release conditions, it is important to take the following practical matters into account:

• Set release conditions before students can access your course; that gives you time to check that all release conditions are working properly by carefully checking them all again.
• Avoid unnecessary release conditions; if you use too many release conditions, Brightspace can make it increasingly difficult to load your pages.
• Avoid circular release conditions that students cannot meet. For example, if you require students to view document A before posting to the discussion, and then require students to post to the discussion before viewing document A, it becomes impossible for students to meet course requirements. comply. Therefore, keep track of which release condition you attach to which course component.
• Once created release conditions are saved in the course. This is useful if you want to reuse complex release conditions.