[ARCHIVED] Adaptive release

[olena_gor]

How to release certain modules to specified users, not based on the pre-requisites?

I need to open certain additional modules to a group of students, but hide these files from the rest of the students, 

I've recently moved from Blackboard, and they have Advanced Adaptive Release feature that allows to make files available only to certain users.

I am looking for something similar in Canvas. Is there anything like that in Canvas?

[gnoack · Accepted solution]

HI @olena_gor 

I'm not familiar with Blackboard's Advanced Adaptive Release. Since I'm not sure I fully understand what you need to accomplish, I will mention Mastery Paths, which might be what you are looking for. 

How do I use MasteryPaths in course modules? - Canvas Community (canvaslms.com)

Unfortunately, Canvas doesn't have a way to release modules to only a select group of students. The only alternative I can think of is to create an assignment and only assign it to the students in question.  On the assignment page you can link the files you mentioned. Only the students who have been assigned that assignment will see it. 

[NicklosLucas]

In Learn, I could release the answers to assignments to individual students once they had submitted the assignment. But that isn't possible in Canvas. 

The solution was to treat my solution files as assignments (I know, that's weird). I created an assignment for each homework solution. For the Display Grade As, I selected Not Graded. For the Assign to section, for the time being I left it as Everyone. Later, when a student submits an assignment, I can go back and change the Assign to from 'Everyone' to specific students. This allows only those students who have submitted the assignment to have access to the answers.

Hope that helps those of us who miss Learn's adaptive release for files.