7 Ways to Use the NOT Release Conditions in Brightspace
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The document outlines seven ways to utilize 'not' release conditions in Brightspace to enhance teaching and learning by controlling access to content. It includes examples such as notifications for incomplete assignments and incentives for survey participation, emphasizing strategies that can motivate students. Upcoming features and potential enhancements related to release conditions are also mentioned.
7 Ways to Use the NOT Release Conditions in Brightspace
- 1. Seven Ways to Use the "Not" Release Conditions to Impact Teaching & Learning Barry Dahl, Sr. Community Manager for the Brightspace Teaching and Learning Community
- 2. Release Conditions • Definition: Release conditions are conditional requirements that restrict access or visibility to specific content, resources or areas within the Brightspace Learning Environment. Users must satisfy the conditions before the restrictions are removed. • New! Additional release conditions have been added for students who have NOT satisfied certain restrictions.
- 3. Wait. What? • Starting with the February 2016 release (10.5.6), the new NOT release conditions are available to institutions on Continuous Delivery • Sorry, they won’t be available to users with older versions of the Learning Environment. • If you’re on Continuous Delivery (monthly updates), you won’t see the new conditions until your institution puts 10.5.6 into production. • New release conditions are ON by default.
- 4. Variables that can trigger the release of something else • Checklist completion • Checklist item • Classlist enrollment • Competencies •Including Learning Objectives • Content topics • Discussion topics • Dropbox • Grade items • Quizzes •Including score on specific questions • Rubric scores • Surveys
- 5. Items that can be released • Checklist • Content modules • Content topics • Custom widgets • Discussion forums • Discussion topics • Dropbox • Grade items • Grade categories • News items • Quizzes • Surveys
- 6. Example 1: Intelligent agent for missing an assessment deadline
- 7. Example 1: email to instructor as notification
- 8. Example 2: Intelligent agent for lack of discussion posting
- 9. Example 2: email to student as notification
- 10. Example 3: News item for those students who didn’t view content
- 11. Example 3: Attaching release conditions to News item
- 12. Example 4: News item for those who did one thing but not another
- 13. Example 4: Multiple release conditions attached to News item
- 14. Example 5: Intelligent agent to notify you of curious activity
- 15. Example 5: Email to alert you of possible suspicious behavior
- 16. Example 6: Extra Credit • Warning! You might not like this one. • Scenario: to encourage students to submit a survey, you give them 5 points of extra credit. • NOTE: survey cannot be anonymous for this to work. • Examples: demographics survey or technology usage/skills survey during first week of class.
- 17. Example 6: Take away bonus points for not completing survey • Research has shown that people can be more highly motivated at the prospect of losing something they already have, rather than getting something they don’t. • Give everyone 5 bonus points in advance, but tell them that you will take those points away of they don’t submit the survey. • Research source: http://bit.ly/minus5pts
- 18. Example 6: News item widget displays -5 point “badge”
- 19. Example 6: News item settings
- 20. A Failed Attempt • My original plan was to use a custom widget for the 5 points off notification. • Custom widgets can have release conditions applied, however, they cannot have a start and end date. • Therefore, the 5 points off badge would have shown for everyone who hadn’t completed the survey, even before the survey deadline. Using the News tool took care of that issue.
- 21. Example 7: Additional content released for Competency not met • This course has three requirements that students must complete during the first week. • Those three activities are intended to ensure that students can use the LMS tools that are needed for success. • Those three activities (or Learning Objectives) have been bundled together into a Competency.
- 22. Example 7: Setting First-Week Activities Release Conditions
- 23. Example 7: Help Content for First- Week Activities Released
- 24. Other Release Condition Possibilities • Checklist not completed • Checklist item not checked • Competency not achieved • Learning objective not achieved • No grade score in grade book
- 25. Coming in March Version 10.5.7 • Release conditions related to Awards – Badges and Certificates • Example: Release Content, News, etc. for someone who has earned a particular badge or certificate. • NOTE!! This will NOT include release conditions for someone who has NOT earned a particular award.
- 26. PIE Items related to Release Conditions • D1837: Show assessment with release conditions (26 votes) • D737: Ability to create release conditions based on a formula grade item (21 votes) • D2140: Release Condtion based on Group Category (19 votes)
- 27. More PIE Items • D1384: New Release Condition for Content, where all topics in module have been visited, or not (16 votes) • D2463: NEW User Must satisfy option, where they could satisfy X out of XX release conditions (15 votes) • D2939: Badge Earned Release Condition (14 votes) • D2835: replace strings include {MatchingCriteria} (14)
- 28. Q & A