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There are different levels of visibility settings for a course.
- From Course settings: edit the Audience-based visibility settings to restrict visibility to the entire course page.
- On the Course page: you can restrict visibility to individual sections (blocks), or individual activities (e.g. SCORM) or resources (e.g. text or slide decks) within each section.
Check and Edit a Course's Visibility
From Course Settings
1. Navigate to the course you want to check or edit.
2. Under Administration on the left sidebar menu, click Edit Settings.
3. Scroll down to Audience-based visibility.
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4. Select the appropriate Visibility settings:
Please note: the Visibility options are:
- No users
- All users
- Enrolled users only: only learners enrolled in this course will be able to see it.
- Enrolled users and members of selected audience: learners enrolled in this course and members of the selected audience(s) will be able to see it.
If you have selected Enrolled users and members of the selected audiences for Visibility, please proceed to click the Add visible audiences button below it and select the approriate audience(s). The audiences you select here will also have visibility of the course (in addition to your enrolled audiences). Learners who are not selected here and are not part of an enrolled audience will not be able to view your course.
If the correct Audience is showing under Audience-based visibility, but individual learners can't view the course, it might be that they are not in that Audience. Please see article on how to check and edit an audience's members.
5. Click Save and display.
On the Course Page
Restricting access to an entire block
1. On the course page, click the Turn editing on button at the top right corner.
2. To restrict access to an entire section (including all the activities and resources within), scroll down to the section and click the first Edit button within the block.
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2. To restrict access to an entire section to
- All users: click Hide Topic.
- Some users: click Edit Topic.
- Under Restrict access, click the Add restriction button and select the appropriate restrictions.
- Click Save changes.
Please note: after selecting the appropriate restriction, you will see an "eye" icon next to it. By clicking on the "eye" icon (forward slash over the icon), people restricted from the activity/resource will not see the section at all. If you do not click on the eye icon (no forward slash), people restricted from the section will still be able to see but not interact with it.
The same rules apply to individual activities and resources.
Restricting access to an individual activity or a resource.
1. Click the Edit button next to the respective activity or resource.
2. To restrict access to the activity/resource to
- All users: click Hide.
- Some users: click Edit settings.
- Under Restrict access, click the Add restriction button and select the appropriate restrictions.
- Click Save and return to course.