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- The first such component is the maintainer ability to spontaneously and manually hide/reveal resources from an access (or similar) role, ideally through a single click (i.e. not having to go to a new screen).
- The second component is the ability to schedule this hide/reveal operation, which could not be accomplished through a single click.
Use Cases
- An instructor wants to pre-load all her resources at the beginning of the term, but organized into one folder for each week of class, and each folder is automatically "turned on" at the beginning of each week.
- An instructor wants to upload exam solutions to the site, but set them to be visible only at midnight following the exam day.
- An instructor wants "stale" content to disappear from the student's view after two weeks, yet still wants to keep the content visible to teaching assistants and instructors of the site.
- An instructor wants to upload lecture notes for an entire term in one go, but set them to be revealed to students only after the scheduled lecture.
- An instructor may want to post answer sets to homework assignments, but only make them available after the due date of the homework, and yet would like to have them all uploaded and available for teaching assistants at the beginning of the semester.
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What happens when resources that are attached in other tools (like Announcements, Wiki or Schedule events) are hidden? They will be inaccessible, but how can this be handled so that the site maintainer does not unwittingly create new problems for themselves?
What happens in the Search tool?
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