Unique External Links Per Section

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With most schools around the world being pushed towards distance learning, teachers need a way to hold class meeting online. Using video meetings have become the norm and being able to schedule meeting that only students in each class can attend has been very useful in helping instructors handle classroom management. One way to make these meetings available to students is by creating an external link in a resource module, that students can click on during their scheduled class time. But currently this link is made available to all sections of a course, which allows students access even outside of their scheduled class time.

Being able to create an external link unique to each section would help greatly with classroom management and student accountability. The idea would be similar to the assignment creation process, where as you create an assignment you can choose which section of the course receive the link. Currently, this can be done in assignments, but then the students need to open the assignment and find the link and finally click on the link. Having the option to add the link to a specific section, would allow the total numbers of click to be reduced down to a single click, and only be visible and accessible to student in the specific session.

In my idea, the external link creation would also include the assign to option as below

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2 Comments
Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni
Status changed to: Open

@michael_william 

Thanks for sharing this idea. As it moves forward for general discussion, you might also be interested in adding your thoughts to the conversation underway at Module access to specific groups, sections or students.

KristinL
Community Team
Community Team
Status changed to: Archived

Thank you for sharing this idea with the Instructure Community!

The Product Team reviewed all feature proposals recently, and unfortunately, this thread was identified as one that they would not be able to include in their current or future plans. While we appreciate your proposal, we also want to be transparent about the likelihood of something like this making it to production.

Thank you for collaborating, and we hope that you submit another idea in the future!