Publishing within courses (visibility and access)
Visibility and access
Settings in these two areas have the following basic effects:
Visibility | If a content’s visibility is limited, i. e. the content is only visible to a specified group, it will not be displayed to users in the course menu. However, if the user is a member of the group and thus fulfils the condition for visibility, they can see the course element in the course navigation. The navigation menu of a course is flexible and may change depending on the time and type of use of the course (received assessments, work in groups). Course menu example ...
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Access | If content is limited in access, it will be visible in the course navigation (provided that no visibility rule prevents it), but the actual content will not be displayed to the user. Instead, they will see a message with relevant access information. In the example, the final test is only available to members of the group Group1 who have passed the course element Task. |
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Correlation between visibility and access
Date-dependent configuration
The following figure shows how the date-dependent configurations of visibility and access interact. In the upper part of the figure, no settings have been adjusted. Visibility and access are thus not limited. In the lower part of the figure, different times were selected for visibility and access. For the period in which the course element is visible in the menu and its content is not accessible, a notification, instead of the course element content, can be displayed to the user.
Group-dependent configuration
This figure shows the group-dependent visibility and access configuration. In the upper part of the figure, no input has been made. All course participants can thus see the course element link and access its content – regardless of whether or not they are in a learning group. In the lower part of the figure, this only applies to the groups "red" and "green".
Create or change visibility and access rules
The settings for both visibility and access can be configured in the course editor. In addition to the Title and description tab, the course itself and any course element type include the tabs Visibility and Access. |
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The following attributes are available in the system to set visibility and access rules in the course editor:
Advanced users can take advantage of an expert mode for configuring these rules to depict complex scenarios.