Consider the following best practices when publishing and unpublishing materials with release conditions.
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When a release condition is set, the target material is automatically unpublished. When a student meets the release condition, the material will be individually assigned to the student and published.
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Release conditions are not updated retroactively. After a material is released to a student, it will not be removed from that student even if the release conditions are updated.
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You can set a condition on an unpublished item; however, you must manually publish it before it will be available to students.
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When setting a release condition on a material with published dates, the published dates will be cleared. You can add the published dates back after you set the release condition. However, setting publish dates on a material with release conditions will make the assignment available on the scheduled date regardless of students meeting the criteria. This means that the material will be published to all students after the published date.
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Users should consider their Student Information System (SIS) when deciding whether to apply release conditions. Not every SIS will support individual assignments during passback, which means all students will have access to all assignments in their gradebook even though they won’t have those assignments in Schoology.
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Copying a material with release conditions will not copy the release condition.
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When you search for material within the Release Conditions page, only materials in folders that have been reviewed in the current release condition session are displayed.
Consider these student completion limitations when using conditional release:
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You can’t apply student completion rules and conditional release to the same materials.
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You can’t apply student completion rules and conditional release to the same folder. You must choose one or the other.
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To use both student completion rules and conditional release within a course:
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Apply student completion rules to a folder before applying conditional release to a folder. Sequential order must be activated to release the conditional release paths because conditional release requires an available target item to validate the release of the material.
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Apply conditional release to a folder before applying student completion rules to a folder that has sequential order activated or deactivated.