Brightspace: Date Restrictions and Release Conditions

Many materials across your Brightspace course can have date restrictions applied.

1. Create or edit the content item you wish to apply date restrictions to.

2. In the right sidebar menu, select Availability Dates & Conditions. 

3. Enter the desired Start Date and/or End Date for the time period you’d like this item available for students. 

4. After creating a date restriction, a new option will appear to further customize the availability. 

5. Clicking on "Visible with access restricted" will open up a window to further customize the availability of the item outside of the dates you’ve selected. On this window, you can also add those availability dates to the course calendar. 

1. Create or edit the content item you wish to apply release conditions to.

2. In the right sidebar menu, select Add Release Conditions. 

3. To create a new release condition, select a Condition Type from the drop down menu. This will create a condition that must be satisfied by the student before the item is available to complete.

Note: if using the condition type Group Enrollment, groups must already have been created in the course.

4. Next, select a condition detail. This will further specify where the release condition applies. 

5. After you’ve made your selections, click Create. This will create and apply the release condition.

This example shows that this item cannot be accessed by students until they have submitted a file to the Reflection Essay assignment folder. 

Note: If desired, multiple release conditions can be added to the same quiz or assignment. However, this may lead to items that become inaccessible, so use caution.

More information on Release Conditions can be found here. 

1. Create or edit the content item you wish to apply release conditions to.

2. In the right sidebar menu, under Special Access, select Manage Special Access.

3. Customize your Special Access settings as desired. You can allow users extended access outside of the availability windows you've set up, or limit access entirely to those with special access. After selecting your settings, click "Add Users to Special Access" to select the course users you wish to apply these settings to.

4. To apply your Special Access settings, click "Save and Close"