Being able to LOCK content without deleting it for re-use in future
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Nancy Morris
I have a program for students that releases content but then after a period of time (say, 2 days), makes the content unavailable again. Essentially, it is drip released and then locked again. This increases engagement exponentially because of the "fear of missing out". I used to have this run via my wordpress site with a PHP/MySQL database, but that became outdated and I could no longer update the PHP without $$$$$$. I did find a content service provider that allows me to release then lock content but I don't like their design features. After a long search, they are the only provider of such a service. It allows me to not only deliver this particular program but also to run, say, short 5 or 7 day challenges, make them unavailable at the end, and then re-run them again without having to re-upload the content. It works soooo well. This UX is of course doable by MANUALLY locking content or changing its URL, but that is a real pain. Making it doable simply by date and an on/off switch makes it amazing!
Amani Saaduddin
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Nancy Morris
Amani Saaduddin Woohooo, this makes me so happy! It will be a game changer for how people deliver some of their content and I'm happy to share the insights I've learned over the years of using locked content engagement with people if they are interested to know when and how to use it :)
Guillermo Santos Méndez
I don't know if it's exactly what you're referring to. I spent some time in another LMS, terribly horrible although it had a feature similar to what you're looking for called "drip content". It allowed you to control the visibility of the content and make it available after a certain number of days. You’re very right about that increasing engagement a lot. The big problem with asynchronous episodes of any course is that the completion rate is usually not very high, so it's necessary to promote it, through incentives, or (in the worst-case scenario) penalties. Many greetings, I vote for this. (attached is a screenshot of how it looked in this other LMS.
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Nancy Morris
Guillermo Santos Méndez Hi. Yes, drip content is very important for engagement but what I'm referring to is the ability to lock that dripped content after a certain period of time. So, Joe joins the program today and in 2 days, content block A is released. What I would like to have happen is that 4 days later, that content would lock again and Joe couldn't access it anymore. This can be achieved manually but that is enormously annoying, so having the ability to set it and forget it would be amazing