Lock Types

What it does:

Lock types within courses can be used as to allow sections of a course to be locked down until a user has completed previous section of the course. This will ensure that users have completed all the content required before being able to progress to further sections within the course:

How to enable it:

- Go to course settings

- Scroll to the bottom of the General section

- Select the lock type you wish to use within the course

Configuring a course Lock type:

There are a number of different lock types that can be used within the course which have been outlined below:

• Custom: This allows you to specify what page(s) unlocks another page(s). When this option is selected you will need to use the "locked by" option in the individual page settings, where you can add the Page ID that you want the user to complete before accessing a page.

Note: To lock a page using the custom lock type you need to set the ID of the course page that will unlock a page within the lock settings within the page level settings.

To find and set the ID of the of the page that will control which page is locked/unlock by the completion of another page:

- Click on the cog wheel of the page you wish to find the ID

- Click on "Copy ID to clipboard"

- Click on the cog wheel of the page you wish to lock

- Click on edit settings

- Scroll down to the "locked by" option under the general section

- Paste the ID within the box

- Click on save.

It is possible to add multiple IDs against a single page, which would require each of the pages to be completed before the page is unlocked.

• LockLast: This option will lock the last page on the course, preventing access until all other sections have been completed first

• Sequential: This will lock all pages except the first page, once the first page is complete then page 2 will unlock, completing page 2 will unlock page 3 etc.

• UnlockFirst: This will keep all pages locked except for page 1. Once page 1 is completed all remaining pages are unlocked