💡 Why use module locking?
⏳ Progressive Learning Sequences: You want to divide your e-learning into learning sequences distributed progressively to learners.
🧠 Structured Learning for Better Retention: Your e-learning lasts more than an hour, so your learners need your guidance to structure their learning and memorise new concepts step by step.
🎓 Blended Learning Facilitation: You're conducting a blended learning program (combining in-person and online sessions) and wish to gradually release modules at the appropriate time.
💡 Example: A time-spaced training programme. At the end of each week, you unlock a module to invite your learners to complete it the following week, preventing them from rushing ahead.
↪️ By spreading the learning effort over time, you help them assimilate concepts more deeply and durably.
💡 Example: An easy-to-manage hybrid training. Learners independently complete an e-learning module containing introductory concepts to prepare for an in-person training session. The other e-learning modules are locked. Once the classroom session with the trainer has taken place, you unlock a second practice module.
↪️ You thus facilitate a well-structured and engaging educational experience both in-person and online!
🛠 How to control module availability to learners
In the "Publications" section of your Studio, each module can be manually locked/unlocked by clicking on the 🔒 icon.
By scrolling down your content, you'll find your preferences, including the module opening mode.
There are four opening modes:
1️⃣ Manual Locking (default)
2️⃣ Progressive Unlocking
3️⃣ Unlocking After Delay
4️⃣ Unlocking by Date
1/ Manual locking
When selecting this mode, you have several options:
Lock all modules at once (button available when at least one module is unlocked)
Unlock all modules at once (button available when at least one module is locked)
Individually lock/unlock the modules in your project directly from the module (using the 🔒 icon)
2/ Progressive unlocking
Access to a module will be unlocked for the learner once they have completed the preceding modules.
3/ Unlocking after delay
Learners will have access to modules once the set delay for each chapter has elapsed. The delay starts from the learner's first opening of the publication.
Learners can access the relevant chapter based on their date and time of enrolment in the course (the first time they access the training).
For example, if I enrol on 8th April at 14:10 and the delay to access my first chapter is two days, I will have access on 10th April at 14:10.
When selecting this mode, you will need to divide your course into chapters if you haven't already done so. Delays apply to chapters to make multiple modules available simultaneously.
Once done, you'll have the option to choose how to notify your learners that a new module is available:
↪️ Each chapter will then have a delay selector. We recommend not setting a delay on the first chapter so your learners aren't blocked the first time they access the publication.
4/ Unlocking by date
As with unlocking after delay, this mode only works on a course divided into chapters. Again, you'll have the option to choose how to notify your learners that a new module is available.
Regarding unlocking chapters by delay and by date:
Learners will be able to access the chapter on the selected date at 8 am (according to the time zone of the person who set the date).
For example, if my chapter is set to be available on 9th April, I will have access on 9th April at 8 am if my trainer is in the same time zone as me. If my trainer is in a different time zone, I will have to wait until it's 8 am in their time zone.
↪️ Each chapter will then have a date selector. Again, we recommend not setting a date on the first chapter so your learners aren't blocked the first time they access the publication.
➡️ Regardless of the locking mode, when a learner tries to access locked content, they will see this warning:
If all modules in a chapter are locked, the positioning test and flashcard session for that chapter are also locked.
👉 Note: In preview mode, you will see the module marked as locked, but you can click on it and access the content. This allows you to review the module even when it's locked for learners.
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Keywords: lock module, block module, close module, progressive release, unlock module.
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