Feature Request/Idea: Conditional Release

[Edward Oneill]

LMS's like Blackboard have a feature called "conditional release."

This basically means: the user must perform a certain action in order to access specific content items.

Usually, this is something like: earn a certain score on a quiz.

This is extremely useful, because it keeps learners from just clicking along without actually learning anything.

I can find zero indication that anyone is working on bringing such a feature to EdX.

Is anyone aware of efforts in this direction? Engaged in them?

[Andy Armstrong]

Hi Edward,

This is a great question. There are several features in edX that support this kind of capability, but I can see the need to have something more general.

The first feature is the conditional module. This allows the author to show different content to people who have passed an assessment or exam and to those who have yet to do so:

http://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/conditional_module.html

There is also a capability called entrance exams that hides the entire course until a user has passed an initial assessment:

http://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/latest/configuration/enable_entrance_exams.html

There is then a capability called pre-requisite courses, which uses course milestones to allow a user into a course at all:

https://github.com/edx/edx-milestones

Finally, there has been discussion about a feature called content gating. I'm not sure how much has been implemented as yet, but you can read about it here:

https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/EDUCATOR/Gating%3A+Subsection+Gating

I hope this helps.

 - Andy

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[Colin Fredericks]

Subsection gating is in the official release as "Prerequisite Subsections":

https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/developing_course/controlling_content_visibility.html#configuring-prerequisite-course-subsections

[Edward Oneill]

So I go in and write the code myself. No UX. Is this correct?

[Edward Oneill]

One other thing mystifies me about EdX.

• No profiles for students.
  
• No ways for students to create a human-readable screen name.
  
• No way for students to follow each other. Short of having a groups tool, which seems to be in development, students could at least follow specific peers and filter discussions for their posts.

There seems to be no idea in designing EdX that people would want to know each other and want persistent connections: in a word, relationships. 

"Following" is not an unusual or new web feature/behavior. It's pretty much the basis of social media (subscription).

I can follow a discussion thread in EdX, but not a person.

(a) Why?

(b) When?

Finally, I must say: the cohorts in the course I'm teaching don't work. I can't read the work of the verified learners, and I can't reasonably find 60 people one at a time.

Is this a bug?

What do I do when documented features simply don't work?

--Edward

[Sergiy Movchan]

as an addition to the prevous answers - you may also check flow-control xblock: https://github.com/eduNEXT/flow-control-xblock/blob/master/README.rst

[Dede Hamzah]

From what i read in documentation this xblock is great, but i don't know how to use it. Can you provide me some example Sergiy?