We have several ways to limit the visibility of items in a course:
- One is by using availability dates for those items that support them.
- Another is by using conditional rules, through the options in access restrictions.
- And another is by using their visibility, which we can change from the editing screen.
We will have two or three options to make an activity visible, depending on whether the administrator allows so-called invisible activities. These three options are:
- Show: The activity or resource will be shown in the section where it has been added.
- Hide: The activity or resource will not be shown. Students cannot access it, and we can continue working on it.
- Make available but do not show: The activity does not appear on the page but students can access it via a direct link, which gives us the possibility to create more interesting content.
For example, we have several documents that the student should read at the beginning of the course, and a prior knowledge quiz. We can upload all 4 one after another on the course homepage followed by the quiz, so the student can access them from there.
But you could also write a welcome message to the course in a forum, or use the Label resource to contextualize those 4 documents and invite the student to read them and take the quiz, placing the links to those documents and the quiz directly in the label or message, and keep the links to the documents and quiz hidden but accessible (and this way we also have access to all the options offered by adding resources like this, remember... we could use the quiz to redirect students to different points or not allow them to advance unless the files have been visited).
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