TABLE OF CONTENTS

• About Content Visibility
• Make Content Available or Unavailable to Students
• Set Release Conditions
• Batch Edit

About Content Visibility

All content you create or copy from another course is hidden from students by default. You may change or update your content's visibility setting either when creating/editing the content or after the content appears in your course. 

Content may be hidden from students, visible to students, or you may set release conditions (release content by date, by users, or by student performance).

If your folder or learning module is hidden from students or set to release at a later time, your students will not be able to view the content inside of it, regardless of its visibility settings.

Make Content Available or Unavailable to Students

When creating or editing your content, click on the visibility drop-down menu to change its visibility status. You may make your content visible to students, hidden from students, or set release conditions.

You may also change the content availability directly from the course content page.  Click on the content visibility drop-down menu to change an item's visibility status. You may make your content visible to students, hidden from students, or set release conditions. 

Set Release Conditions

You may use release conditions to determine:

• When the course content is available to students.
• Which course members or groups have access.
• What student performance is required to access content, such as submitting an assignment or scoring above a threshold on a test.

Once you set your Release Conditions you may choose if your want your content to appear before course members meet the release conditions. For example, all course members can see the item in the Course Content area but cannot open it until the release conditions are met.

The Release Conditions in Blackboard Ultra Tutorial Video will walk you through setting release conditions.

Release Content by Date

Select Date/Time to select a date and time when students can access content. Some examples include:

• You have added content to your course but you only want students to work on one section at a time. You set Access From dates on your Learning Modules so that new content is released every Friday at 8 AM ET.
• You want students to access an Assignment only after you've discussed it in class. You set an Access From date and time for after your class meeting has ended.
• You release your final exam during your scheduled Final Exam period.

Release Content by Course Members or Groups

Under Select Members, choose which course members or groups have access to the content. Some examples include:

• You release your content weekly, but one of your students has requested early access to course materials due to an accommodation, travel, etc. Create one rule to give your student access on Date 1 and then a second rule for the rest of the class to access the content on Date 2. 
• You have two different paths for students, depending on their interest, program of study, etc. Assign one set of content to students in Group A and another set of content to students in Group B.

Release Content Based on Performance

Select Performance to release content when a student meets certain criteria, such as submitting an assignment or scoring above a certain threshold on a test. Some examples include:

• Students must demonstrate understanding before moving on to the next topic in the course. You want students to move on to the next topic only after they score a B or above. Select Grade Requirement as a release condition.
• Students must score 70 points or higher on a practice test before accessing the midterm exam. Select 70 points or higher as a release condition.
• Students must submit assignments in a specific order. Select Attempt submitted as a release condition. 

Visibility Settings

When you set release conditions you can also choose whether you want content to be visible to course members before or after they meet requirements for access. 

Set Visibility to Show

If you set your visibility to Show, students can view the date and time the content will be released, the first condition they need to meet, and when they can no longer access it (if applicable). If multiple conditions are set per item, students should be informed of all criteria they need to meet, as only the first condition will be displayed. 

Example of a student's view of a Learning Module with date/time release conditions:

Set Visibility to Hide

If you set your visibility to Hide, students cannot view the content at all until the release conditions are met. Any grades or comments for hidden content will still be available to students in the gradebook.

Batch Edit

When you create new content or copy individual content into your Ultra course, all content will default to Hidden from Students. You may adjust the visibility for these items one at a time or use the Batch Edit tool to update them all at once.

On the Course Content page, click on the Options Menu (three dots on the right side of the page) and select Batch Edit. 

This will bring you to the Batch Edit page. Click the check box next to the items you want to update. You can choose entire Folders or Learning Modules, or individual items. If you select an entire Folder or Learning Module, all items within it will also be selected. You may click to open a Folder or Learning Module in order to select individual items within it.

Once you have selected your items you may:

• Edit Dates: Edit due dates on selected items. You may change the dates by a select number of days, based on course start, or change to a specific date/time.
• Edit Visibility: Choose whether to show or hide the selected items for students. This is especially useful if you copied content from a previous course or did not update your visibility settings when creating content.
• Delete Items: Delete all selected items.

For more information, go to the Batch Edit support article or watch the Batch Edit tutorial video.