Displaying unique content to individual students, groups, or sections

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usmapc
Community Member

Good evening, community: I am trying to restrict modules and module items to specific students or groups. It’s something I’ve been able to do in other LMS software and it’s been discussed here before in these threads:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/How-do-I-restrict-module-items-to-specific-...

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Restricting-Modules-to-specific-students/td...

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Is-there-a-way-to-restrict-course-content-v...

People in these forums have been thoughtful and generous with their workaround suggestions. However, as noted in these threads, aside from workarounds that appear to range from somewhat complex to very (!) complex, Instructure has not addressed this usability issue.

My questions, then, are first: has this function been added? And second, if not, can anyone recommend a third-party addon that provides this feature (and perhaps other essential features)?

Thank you, sincerely, for your help!

 

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greydon
Instructure
Instructure

Hello @usmapc 

Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with restricting modules to particular groups or sections. Thank you for providing those links to other posts regarding similar requests and work arounds. There certainly are some decent suggestions because currently, no there isn't a way to specifically use the module itself to apply to particular groups of people. However, there is a need and want for this within the community and hoping that someday we will have a release for this. Currently, it isn't in the upcoming releases however:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/tkb-p/canvas-release

Your best bet is to create modules for particular groups or sections and the assignments within that module can be assigned only to them. If assignments are assigned to a particular section, the other would not be held accountable if you were also to enable module requirements and prerequisites etc. That also could be something to consider using. Assigning particular assignments to groups or sections and using a module prerequisite to get another one opened after the fact. You could also speak with your CSM as canvas can and will customize tools and features upon request. That would need to be worked out directly with the canvas CSM however. Some of these posts also have good suggestions. We apologize for any inconvenience and please feel  free to upvote these in the idea forum or post your own.

Feel free to check out our Ideas Conversation forum as we implement great ideas such as this that we find within the community. 

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/idb-p/ideas

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