Resetting Release Conditions - clarity in documentation

Steve.B.446
Steve.B.446 Posts: 111 🎓
edited September 25 in Higher Ed / Postsecondary

The guidance for release conditions at About Release Conditions - Brightspace states:

Note:

 Once a learner meets a release condition, the condition is cleared for that learner and cannot be reset. For example, if you attach a release condition to a discussion topic requiring learners to achieve more than 60% on a quiz before they can access that topic, and one of your participants receives 72% on the quiz but you adjust their grade to 55%, they will be able to access the topic because they did meet the requirement at some point.

However this isn't true. For example, if you release something based on "Has not received a grade item", the item disappears when a grade is assigned. However if you release something based on the grade score, it does remain released when the score changes to something outside of the rule parameters.

Equally, conditions based on group membership seem to reset when the user is removed from the group.

Is there any more accurate documentation available for which rule types do reset? I need to find a workaround for something that we used to do with groups that has been broken by the recent change restricting group size to 3000 members.

(I get the impression from recent PIE contributions that there is a lot of appetite from the community for release conditions to be more flexible, but not much enthusiasm from D2L to prioritise this at present, hopefully somebody is taking note and can change that.)

Answers

  • Piero.d.211
    Piero.d.211 Posts: 36 🤝🏼

    Hello, Steve, how are you? Thank you for your participation in the Brightspace Community today.

    I have reached out to our internal teams to confirm if we do have more documentation about these scenarios were a Release Condition can be reset.

    While I wait for an answer, would it be possible for you to share more details about the workflow with Groups that you can no longer follow now? Depending on what you would like to do, there might be work-around solutions that can be applied.

    Please, let me know, okay?

    Thank you kindly,

    Piero de Sá
    Bilingual Product Support Analyst