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How do I limit access to Lessons page items to groups?

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Instructors can limit access (i.e., specify conditional release) to items added to a Lessons page or subpage by group.

Note: The site must have existing groups in order to limit items to groups. See How do I create groups? for more information on creating groups.

Go to Lessons.

Lessons tool highlighted in site Tool Menu

If you titled your page something other than Lessons, select the title of the page as it appears in your Tool Menu.

Select Edit.

edit icon displayed upon hover over item

For the item that you want to restrict to a group or groups, select the pencil (Edit) icon that appears when you hover your cursor over an item.

Select Edit the groups for which this item should be shown.

Edit Item dialog box

In the Edit Item dialog box, select Edit the groups for which this item should be shown. This will display a list of the site's existing groups.

Select the group(s), then Update Item.

Edit item dialog box with group visibility options expanded
  1. Check the checkboxes corresponding to the groups who should see the item.
  2. Then, select Update Item.

View item on the page.

item displays with a notation showing which groups it is released to

Items that are restricted based on specified criteria indicate the criteria next to the item (e.g., [Team-1]).

Note: All items that can be added to a Lessons page can be limited to a selected group (or groups) via the Edit button.

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