Adaptive Release and Review Status
Adaptive Release
The Adaptive Release feature allows instructors to create custom learning paths through course content and activities. Content items, discussions, assessments, assignments, or other activities can be released to students based on a set of rules and criteria including date and time, particular users or groups, grades or attempts on any gradebook items, or Review Status of another content item in the course.
Course content does not always apply to all users in the course. Using Adaptive Release, instructors can display course content to certain users for a limited period of time, or only after users meet (or fail to meet) predetermined requirements. Some content might be applicable to all users in the course, while other content should be audience-specific
The following options are available:
- Adaptive Release – Create basic rules for an item. Only one rule per item may be created.
- Adaptive Release: Advanced – Create advanced rules for an item. Multiple rules may be created.
Add a basic Adaptive Release rule
The Basic Adaptive Release rule allows the user to add and modify one rule for a single piece of content. This single rule may have multiple criteria. For example, the rule may require the user to meet both date criteria and review status criteria before the content is available
Follow the steps below to add a basic Adaptive Release rule:
Add an Advanced Adaptive Release rule
Advanced Adaptive Release allows Instructors to add multiple rules to a single content item. If multiple rules are created, the content is visible to the user if any of the rules are met. Each rule may have multiple criteria. For example, one rule may allow users in Group A with a score above an 85 on a Test to view the content item. Another rule for the same item may allow users in Group B to view the same content item only after a specific date.
Follow the steps below to add an advanced Adaptive Release rule:
- Open a Content Area from the Control Panel.
- Select Manage next to the content item. The Manage page appears.
- Select Adaptive Release: Advanced. The Adaptive Release: Advanced page appears.
- Select Add Rule in the Action Bar. The Add Rule page appears. Enter a name for the rule and click Submit.
- Use the options in the Action Bar on the Manage Criteria page to build the rule. For example, select Add Date to add date criteria to the rule. When that criteria is complete, another option in the Action Bar may be selected to build on the rule. Select OK when the rule is complete.
- Repeat Step 4 thru Step 6 to add multiple criteria to an item
Q: What are the differences between basic Adaptive Release and Advanced Adaptive Release?
A: Advanced Adaptive Release allows users to create multiple rules per item. If a user wants to create different criteria for different users on the same item, the user will need to create more than one rule. For example, if different rules apply for different Groups in a course that the Advanced Adaptive Release is used, the Instructor may set up a rule for Group A that enabled all users in the Group to view an item once they receive an 85 on a Test. The Instructor may set up a separate rule for Group B that enables them to see the same content item after they receive an 80 on the Test.
Q: What are the differences between Rules and Criteria?
A: An Adaptive Release rule consists of a set of criteria that defines the visibility of a content item to users. Criteria are the parts that make up the rule. Date and membership, for example, are two types of different criteria. Each content item may have multiple rules, and each rule may consist of multiple criteria. To view an item, a user must meet all of the requirements of the rule. This means that if a rule has multiple criteria, the user must meet all criteria before the item is available.
For instance, the Instructor may add an Assignment to a course. One rule for this Assignment may allow all users in Group A to view the Assignment after a specific date. This rule would consist of Membership criteria and Date criteria. Another rule for this Assignment may allow all users in Group B to view the Assignment once they had completed Homework #1. This rule would consist of Membership criteria and Gradebook criteria.
Note: Only one Membership criterion and one Date criterion may be created for each rule. Multiple Gradebook criteria and Review Status criteria may be added to each rule.
Q: What criteria of Adaptive Release are available for instructors to set up?
A: Criteria are the parts that define an Adaptive Release rule. Instructors have the option of applying one or more criteria to each rule. For example, one rule may make content available after a specific date, while another rule, with multiple criteria, may make content available to a course Group after a specific date. There are a number of different types of criteria available to instructors.
The following is a brief description of each available criteria:
The summary of features inside “Manage”:
Review Status
This tool allows instructors to track student review of specific content items. Once instructors enable the tool for an item, each student’s progress is tracked. A “Mark Reviewed” button appears on the item when the student opens the Content Area. After reviewing the item, the student selects this button to mark it Reviewed. Instructors may check the status of student reviews on the User Progress page.
Q: How do I enable the Review Status?
A: Follow the steps below to enable Review Status for an item in a course:
Open the Content Area that includes the item from the Control Panel.
- Select Manage next to the content item. The Manage page appears.
- Select Review Status. The Review Status page appears.
- Select Enable and click Submit. The new status appears on the Manage page underneath the Review Status link.
When Review Status is enabled for an item a “Mark Reviewed” button appears next to the item. The student must select this button to mark the item Reviewed.
Q: How do students notify instructors when they have reviewed items?
A: If Review Status is enabled for a content item, students see a “Mark Reviewed” icon from the course view. If students click the “Mark Reviewed” button the item then displays “Reviewed” icon
Q: Where can I view a student progress?
A: Once Review Status is enabled for an item, the instructor can view progress from the Performance Dashboard via Control Panel—Assessment—Performance Dashboard, or the “Adaptive Release and Review Status: User Progress” page via Manage button. These pages both indicate whether or not a student has marked an item as ‘Reviewed’ so that the Instructor can see the Review Status of the item for all users in the course.
Follow the steps below to open the User Progress page:
- Open the Content Area that includes the item you would like to check from the Control Panel.
- Select Manage next to the content item. The Manage page appears.
- Select Review Status: User Progress. A check box appears in the Reviewed column next to each user who has marked the item as Reviewed. The time and date of the review also appears.
Q: How do I know if a review status for a particular item is enabled?
A: Access the folder or item’s review setting by clicking through Manage --Review Status—to see Current Status: Enabled or disable.