Show/hide individual lessons

Hello @ucdguy,

Content drip is the way to show/hide subsequent lessons, quizzes and assignments. There is no other option given for this purpose.

“Content drip is the way to show/hide subsequent lessons, quizzes and assignments.”

Yes I’m aware, but is there no way for an instructor to simply make a published lesson a draft instead on the frontend?

Seems odd to have three complicated ways of doing that without first having the more basic way of manually doing it.

Hello @ucdguy,

Yes instructors can save courses in draft mode by pressing the save as draft button given toward the top header on the frontend course builder. It’s meant for the entire course and not for keeping individual lessons in draft mode.

So there is no way to save individual lessons as drafts on the frontend course builder?

Or, more generally, the only way for an instructor to manually hide a lesson is to use content drip by date and choose some random date in the future? There’s no direct way of showing/hiding a lesson by simply using a toggle?

Hello @ucdguy,

Admin and instructors can certainly put the entire course in draft mode so the included lessons will also be saved in draft mode until it’s published but once it’s published there is no option to keep it in draft mode so that students who already have enrolled and purchased are not deprived of their access to the enrolled course.

The purpose of content drip is to gradually release lessons so to compel students to watch previous lessons before they can move on to the next.

I’m using Tutor LMS with actual school teachers as instructors.

I wish for the teachers (instructors) to have the ability to only show a lesson once they believe that their classroom as a whole is ready to move on to the next lesson, which is not at a specific date nor should it be decided by each student.

I therefore need each teacher to be able to manually show a hidden lesson. I’m currently achieving this with content drip by instructing the teacher to initially set all lessons to some random date in the future. Then, when a class is ready to move on to the next lesson, I’m telling them to set the content date drip date of that lesson to a random date in the past.

This is a bit of a over-complicated and flimsy way of manually showing and hiding lessons. Is there a better way?

Thanks.

Hello @ucdguy,

Can you confirm if you are using Tutor LMS content drip feature or RCP drip feature?

Course content available sequentially hides next lessons for everyone enrolled and doesn’t allow progression to next ones until each of them individually complete prior lessons.

Content Drip has 4 options that you can experiment with to apply to a course and it doesn’t have to be the one that allows scheduling for a particular date.

Yes I’m using Tutor LMS content drip.

“Course content available sequentially hides next lessons for everyone enrolled and doesn’t allow progression to next ones until each of them individually complete prior lessons.”

Yes but the student rather than the instructor decides when they are ready to move on to the next lesson with that implementation. I want the instructor to instead allow progression to the next lesson only once the instructor believes that all of their students are ready to move on.

I’m doing this in a flimsy manner using content drip by date as explained above. Is there a better method?

Thanks

Edit: Another way of thinking of it is the following. I want an instructor (teacher) to enter their classroom and “switch on” the next lesson so that, now, their students can see this lesson for the first time at the start of this class. I therefore want all students to be able to start viewing each lesson at the same time, just as with content drip by date. However, I want a “simplified” version of content drip by date such that, rather than unlocking a lesson by an instructor choosing a date, a lesson is instead unlocked by an instructor toggling a switch.

I don’t even think that what I want is considered content drip. I instead simply want a toggle on the frontend course builder for each lesson, something like “save lesson as draft” or “set lesson as private” or “unlock lesson” etc.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Ari123.

Hello @ucdguy,

We don’t have such functionality currently but as you have requested I am adding this to our feature request board. Our development will decide about these features thank and thank you very much for your idea.

Hello @ucdguy,

Based on your last reply I’d recommend scheduling lessons for a date so the lessons are unlocked on particular dates for everyone. You can think of drip as the alternative to drafting lessons.

As I said in my very first post, that is what I’m doing.

However, my instructors must choose random dates far into the future to hide a lesson and then change to dates in the past when they want to show a lesson. It’s impossible for a school teacher to know in advance the exact date when everyone will be ready to move on to each lesson.

There are of course many other reasons as to why it should be possible to set as a lesson as a draft, e.g. you notice a mistake which you need to tidy up. Hopefully, as @jobayertuser mentioned above, my request will be added in an upcoming release as it would be an incredibly trivial thing to add.

Thanks.

This also highlights my previous comment in another thread about developers for this plugin only considering video lessons and not text-based lessons.

If you’re writing a text-only lesson that you wish to add to an already live course, such a lesson can days, if not weeks, to complete. It therefore makes sense to be able to save that lesson as a draft until it’s completed and ready to be published. The only other option seems to be to set the entire course as a draft for days or weeks, which is not ideal if the course is already live and you just wish to add something to it.