Once your content, including both presentations and videos, is associated with a class (published), you can make it available or unavailable at a schedule of your choice. This is referred to as date-based availability because you set the dates on which the item becomes available or unavailable for student viewing.
When setting date-based availability from the class list, the change takes effect at midnight on the date set.
If you need to set immediate availability or unavailability, you can select Make Available / Make Unavailable from the Media options instead.
How to set date-based availability for published media
- Navigate to the class list for a section, either by clicking a course tile from the Courses tab or via a link in your.
In the figure below, note that the media icons are different colors. A black icon indicates that media is not currently available to students; a white icon indicates the media can be viewed by students. The media icons also contain a tooltip indicating current availability. Students do not see an icon if the media is unavailable to them.
- Click Media on a class to open its options, as shown in the figure below.
- Select Availability Settings, as shown in the figure above.
- The Edit availability options modal opens.
- Configure the availability options.
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Make available
- Now - Makes the selected content available immediately. This is the default.
- On a specific date - Enter the date you want the content to become available.
- Don't make available - Removes the content from student view.
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Make unavailable
- Never - The content will remain available until it is removed or you manually make it unavailable. This is the default.
- On a specific date - Enter the date you want to content to become unavailable.
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Make available
- When finished, click UPDATE.
Date-based availability is based strictly on the date; meaning the item becomes available or unavailable at midnight of the date configured.