You can use the Restrict access settings to control the availability of learning materials based on any one or more of these condition(s). You may also combine the use of these conditions to add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic.

Students' completion of a previous activity.
Date (you can set from and until dates).
Students' grades for a previous assessed activity in the module.
Group setting in the module.
User Profile field (e.g. First name, Surname, Course code, Programme code, Route code, Mode of attendance, Occurrence and Student status). Please note that not all of these fields update automatically in Moodle when updating SITS records for dormant or resitting students, so you will need to test that this restrict access setting works for each of your students. Please contact us via IT Self Service Portal for further guidance on using these fields.

You can restrict access to individual resources or activities, or to the entire sections.

Restrict access settings are included on rollover, remember to update your Restrict access settings on content and activities that are rolled over.

How to apply Restrict Access to your resource, activity or section?
What conditions are available for restriction?
How to choose ALL or ANY conditions?
What will students see if a resource, activity or section has Restricted Access applied?

How to apply Restrict Access to your resource, activity or section

About	Setting
When you create a resource or activity, or edit a section summary, you will find the Restrict access settings near the end of the settings page. Expand the settings by clicking on it.
Click on the Add restriction... button, a choice of conditions appears.

What conditions are available for restriction?

Condition	Image	Meaning
Activity Completion		Activity Completion is enabled by default on new modules. If you are working on a pre- 2020-21 module you will need to enable Completion Tracking from Settings>>Edit settings .Once you have set up Activity completion on an activity or resource, Activity completion becomes an option available from the Add restriction menu. You can use the Activity completion settings to define what constitutes completion. Restrict access in combination with Activity completion means that you can require that students view certain resources or complete certain activities before moving on to others. Activity completion Example... Week 2 materials are available only if the student has read the Week 1 Presentation: Activity completion setting in 'Week 1 Presentation' Restrict access setting in 'Week 2 Presentation'
Date		Access can be restricted from or until a certain date and time. Date Example... This material is for Week 2. It will be available to students from 9th September at 9am.
Grade		You can specify a condition on any grade in the course: the full course grade, or the grade for any activity in the module. You can enter either a minimum value (at least percentage), a maximum value (less than percentage), both, or neither by clicking on the relevant checkbox. Grade Example... This is the resit coursework question. It should be visible only to students who need to resit Assignment 1 as they achieved less than a passing grade:
Groups		If groups or groupings are set up in the module, it is possible to restrict the activity or resource to a certain group or grouping (which is a cluster of groups). If you choose the option 'Any group', the resource/activity will be available to student who has been assigned to a group (any group). It should not be misinterpreted as students who are not associated with any group. Groups Example... Only students in Group A should have access to this material:
User Profile		Every user account in Moodle has profile fields like: name, city, country, etc. You can select to restrict availability of materials base on a student's Moodle identity. Some useful profile fields are: First name Surname Email address Course code* Programme code* Route code* Mode of attendance* (refer to e.g. part-time, full-time, or distance taught mode) Occurrence* (refer to mode of attendance and month of intake) Student status* (e.g. if the student is current) *This data is drawn from our student record system - SITS and is recorded in specific coding. Please liaise with your course office if you want to utilise these fields. User Profile Example... Both the undergraduate and postgraduate students share the same module space. This content is only available to the postgraduate students:
Restriction set		This allows you to add a set of nested restrictions combining the use of the above conditions in order to achieve a more complex logic. Restriction set Example... This is Week 2 material will be available only after 26th September at 9am, and it will be available to students in Group A or Group B only:

How to choose ALL or ANY conditions?

If you add more than one restriction, you can decide if all the conditions need to be met or only some of them.

Relationship	Image	Meaning
ALL		ALL the conditions need to be met. These are AND conditions.
ANY		ANY of the conditions are required before the activity is made available. These are OR conditions.

What will students see if a resource, activity or section has Restrict Access applied?

No matter which condition setting you have chosen, you can choose to either grey out/hide the activity/resource.completely. To set these options, you use the eye icon next to the condition:

Icon	Image	Meaning
Shut-eye		If the eye is SHUT then students who do not meet that part of the condition will not see the activity at all.
Open-eye		If the eye is OPEN the students who do not meet that part of the condition will see the activity but it will be greyed out and have information about why they can't access it yet.

The shut-eye takes precedence. For example, you could have two conditions, one based on date (with eye shut) and one based on completing a previous activity (with eye open). The activity will not appear for students until the date; then it will be visible with information for students explaining that they need to complete an activity before they can access the materials. When students complete the activity they can access the resources.

Example student view with open-eye for restrictions: Click here to expand...