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Online Library: Prevent Specific Students from Seeing a File

It is possible to prevent specific students from seeing a file in the Online Library. You may want to do this if you post an answer key to an assignment and specific students have not yet completed that assignment.

If a file is restricted for a student, the student will not see the file in the Online Library (or any sub-view of the Online Library), nor will the file appear in the ZIP file of all items in the Online Library for that student.

 

How to Restrict Access to a File in the Online Library

Screenshot with box highlighting the Restrict Access section of the form

  1. Click Online Library under Content Tools > Course Resources on the main Faculty Tools page.
  2. Add or edit a file.
  3. Click Show Additional Options at the bottom of the file form.
  4. Find the Restrict Access field at the end of the form.
  5. Click the checkbox next to the name(s) of the student(s) that should not have access to this file.
  6. Save your work.

You can remove the access restriction for a student by following the steps above but deselecting the checkbox next to the name of the student who should now have access to the file.

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