How to Limit Visibility to Content with Adaptive Release
If you have an array of content that you only want one person in your course to see or a specific group of people to have access to the content, you can utilize Blackboard's Adaptive Release option to get this set up.
Go to the course you need to set the restriction in.
Find the section the content or item is inside of you want to restrict. (The item could be a folder, test, reading material, etc.)
Click the arrowed button that appears
Select “Adaptive Release” from the menu
Under Membership: click Browse.
Change the Field Name to either First or Last Name.
Search for the user by either first or last name.
Select the check box next to the user.
Click Submit.
The username should now be placed inside of the Username box.
Click Submit when you are done.
Now only that one user has access to this item or content. You can continue to add more users into this box to create access to a specific group.