Releasing different assignments to different students

CourseworkI recently received a request from a member of staff who wanted to release one assignment  in Blackboard to his Resit students and a different assignment to his First-time attending students. This can be done via the Selective Release tool in Blackboard.

There are 3 main steps, and I have have created a short video (well, it’s 8 minutes long) describing these steps in more detail, as I thought it may be of interest to others.

Although the movie describes the steps to create only 2 assignments for only 2 sets of students, the same principle can be applied if you wanted to release several different assignments to several sets of students. You could also release other content in the same way, not only an assignment, but also a document or a quiz .

Here are the general steps to create 2 assignments to be released to 2 different sets of students:

  1. First, you will need to identify in Blackboard your different sets of students.

    There are different ways to do this. For instance, you could set up different Groups via the Group Manager, and allocate your students to different groups. Or, you could create a column in the Grade Book, and identify your students that way. In my movie example, I’ve chosen to do the latter.

  2. Then, create 2 different assignments (or other content) in Blackboard
  3. Finally, set the Release Criteria so that one assignment will be released to one set of students, and the other assignment will be released to the other set.

Take a look at this short(ish) video of the steps to do this…if you have speakers or a headset, then you can listen to the audio, otherwise, I’ve also included some text so that you can follow along without the sound…

If the video above is too small, you can view an enlarged version here: http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/support/vle/selectivereleasemovie/

If you have any questions, please contact us via our online helpdesk and click on the Request button: https://helpdesk.its.qmul.ac.uk

Photo Credit

Michael Yat Kit Chung on Flickr

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