Locking Assignments Until Another is Done

[MM20201]

When designing a course, as an instructor, we are hoping to lock an assignment until an earlier one is completed.  For example, The students need to fill out a confidentiality form before they are able to submit the other assignments. I've found that students tend to submit the other assignments even though it has been stressed that the first assignment needs to be done before they can do the others. It would be easier to lock it for individual students and then when they submit the first assignment the other ones unlock automatically for them. Let me know what you suggest. 

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Good evening, @MM20201 ...

It sounds like you'd want to take advantage of Module requirements.  The information in the light blue box of this Guide has some great information on this...and the direction how to set this up follow underneath it.

How do I add requirements to a module?

Do you think this might meet your needs?

[Ron_Bowman]

@MM20201 

I will add a little more information to what @Chris_Hofer provided.

First, I would use modules as he suggested.  Then make the first assignment in the module a Canvas Quiz that has all of the confidentiality information in it with various questions that they have to answer correctly - you would have to come up with the wording to get across everything that you want. (the reason I say quiz is because you want it auto graded so that you don't have to look at a submission to provide a grade).  Then set the module so that all requirements are to be done in order.  For the quiz make the requirement  at least a score of X/X - i.e. all questions have to be correctly answered the way you want the students to answer them.

All the other assignments are listed after the quiz and after the student gets a perfect score on the quiz, all the other files will become available.