How do I assign a conditional assignment for students to complete in Mastery Paths?

By default, assignments in Canvas are assigned to Everyone, which  means all students will be able to view the item in their Modules page.  Once you have added conditional assignments  to a Mastery Path, you must designate the assignment for conditional  release by assigning it to Mastery Paths. Mastery Path assignments only  display to students whose scores fall in a range that releases the  assignment to them.

To confirm that all conditional content items have been assigned to  Mastery Paths correctly, you can use the Test Student to view the  students' Modules page by enabling Student View.  The only course items that should be visible to the Test Student are  items assigned to Everyone. Therefore, if the Test Student can view a  conditional item without having completed any coursework, the assignment  may not have been edited and assigned to Mastery Paths.

Notes:

  • The Mastery Paths setting can be managed in your course if the setting has been enabled by your institution.
  • For quick reference, assignment and quiz pages display user  assignments. User assignments cannot be viewed from the modules page  until the assignment has been assigned to multiple students.
  • Due dates for conditional items are not applied when the item is  released to students. To add due dates for conditional items, wait until  all students have completed the initial assignment and then add due dates to the conditional items.
  • Files, External URLs, and External Tool module items cannot be used as conditional items in Mastery Paths.
  • If your course has a large number of students and/or if a Mastery  Path has a large number of associated conditional items, students may  experience a delay before they are assigned a path.

1. Open Modules

In Course Navigation, click the Modules link.

2. Open Mastery Paths

Locate the Mastery Paths item and click the Mastery Paths link.

3. Edit Assignment

For each assignment in each range, click the options menu [1] and click the Edit link [2]. The assignment will open in a new browser tab.

4. Assign to Mastery Paths

In the assignment's Assign field, click the Everyone remove icon [1], then click the text field. Select the Mastery Paths option [2].

5. Save Assignment

Click the Save button.

5.1. View Section Warning

Canvas displays a warning message asking you if you want to add  additional sections. For Mastery Paths, you can disregard this warning.  Click the Continue button.

6. View Assignment

View the Mastery Path assignment.

The assignment will only display in a student's Modules page if the  student's score in the Mastery Path source item releases the assignment  to the student.