How to Restrict User Access to Activities in Your Courses

The restrict access feature allows you to restrict the availability of an activity or even a course section according to certain conditions such as dates, grade obtained, group or activity completion.

Table of Contents:

  1. Restriction Types
  2. Set Up Activity Restriction

Restriction Types

User Segment: only allow access to students who belong to a specified user segment/s.

Activity completion: require learners to complete (or not complete) another activity.

Date: only allow access until/from a specified date and time.

Grade: require learners to achieve a specified grade in another activity.

Group: only allow access to students who belong to a specified group/s.

User profile: control access based on profile fields in learners' profiles.

Relative date: only allow access until/after a specified period of time has been reached before/after a specific course date.

Level: require learners to reach a specified level.

Restriction set: the above restrictions can also be nested to apply complex logic.

Set Up Activity Restriction

Step 1: In the relevant course, click on "Edit course material."

Step 2: Next to the relevant activity, click on "Edit", followed by "Edit settings."

*Note: To apply restrictions to entire course sections; next to the relevant module, click on "Edit", followed by "Edit module."

Step 3: In the "Restrict access" section, click on "Add restriction" to open the restriction picker.

Step 4: Select the restriction type you would like to apply.

*Note: You can add multiple restrictions to one activity.

Step 5: Follow the prompts to select your restriction conditions, then click on "Add restriction."

Step 6: Once you're happy, you can scroll down and click "Save and return to course" to see the restriction applied in your course.

*Note: If you do not want learners who do not meet the conditions to see the restricted activities; you can click on the hide icon "eye" icon when setting your access restrictions. This will hide upcoming activities and learners will only be able to see these when they meet the specified conditions.

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