I have new medical conference courses, and i want to have the presentations downloadable as a resource. I do not want people who have not enrolled/paid to be able to download the documents, as that is half the value and all the written content of the course.
I do want to provide access to those who are enrolled/paid for the course.
This is related to permissions and groups, and the options in file access.
Hi! I'm not sure if this meets the needs for your use case but in your system Templates you can edit the way all courses display so that they don't show the resources before uses are enrolled.
Navigate to Setup then Templates, then select the template where you want to adjust the course display and click the Edit button. In the template, select the Courses header, then expand the Course section and scroll down to Course Details Layout (see screenshot). Here you can toggle on the Enable Pre-Enrollment setting. This shows the options for what will display for users who are not enrolled in the course. If you deselect Resources then users who are not enrolled in the course will not be able to see or access the resources there. The resources will only be visible and available to users who are enrolled.
Part of the value add to creating a user account and actually enrolling in a course is access to our curated, high-value course resources. Without a restriction now any one can access and download the course resources WITHOUT enrolling. Please fix this! I don't want to move all our course resources to learning objects (because we cannot make them optional inside the course either which is another long-time request we've submitted as our learners have requested from us too).
Note: I'm NOT talking about Global Resources which we can restrict access to.
We would also like to add this restriction. We offer different versions of the same course, some which include those resources and some that don't. But it looks like our users can just go open the more expensive courses in the catalog and download the extra resources there!