Availability determines whether a student can view media in the class where it is published. You can publish media to a class, but not allow students to see it until a certain date, or not allow them to see it after a certain date.
When captures are published to a section, the publishing settings include Availability. This may be on the capture schedule, or in the dialog box for manually publishing media to a class. Availability allows the publisher to set a start and / or end date for making the capture available / unavailable for student viewing.
Instructors can set availability (turn it on, or off, or make it date-based) on any media published to their section. Administrators must use the Instructor Impersonation feature to set or change the availability of published media.
To set availability for a published capture
- From the main menu, select Courses.
- Use the search box or filter drop-down lists to find the course for the section where the capture you want to manage is published.
- Click on the course to expand it and see the listed Sections for the course.
- Mouse over the section you want to view to expose the action icons on the right side of the row.
- Click the Instructor icon (looks like a silhouette).
The Instructor's Class List appears. - Find the class where the media is published and click on the media icon.
A shortcut menu appears with media availability options.
- Click Make Available / Make Unavailable to change the current availability immediately.
- Click Availability Settings to make the item available or unavailable on a date-based schedule.
The Edit availability options dialog box appears with immediate and date-based options.
- When finished click UPDATE.
- To navigate out of Instructor View, select Courses again from the main menu across the top of the screen (or any other menu option).