Conditional Activities (Restrict Access)

Conditional activities are course elements that become available to a learner only when defined conditions are met — such as completing a prior activity, achieving a minimum grade, reaching a date, belonging to a particular group, or meeting a combination of these. In Moodle this capability is delivered through the Restrict Access and Activity Completion settings. The purpose is to guide learners along a deliberate, sequenced path rather than letting them wander through content in any order. This supports scaffolding, where each step builds on the last, and enables adaptive routes where learners who struggle are directed to remedial material while others advance. It also enforces prerequisites important in compliance, where a policy must be read before an attestation, or a foundational module passed before an advanced one. Used well, conditional activities create structure and personalisation without manual intervention; overused, they can feel rigid. edzlms configures these rules to build guided, adaptive learning journeys on Moodle.