Setting up Individualized Learning
Margarita Berezyanskaya
Last Update a year ago
Teachers may wish to create an individualized learning path for a specific student. This can be done using Restrict Access.
Restrict Access is a feature that allows instructors to release topics, resources and activities for their learners based on specific criteria such as a date, a grade, or completion of a prior activity. For an individualized learning path, access can be restricted based on the learner’s email address, as outlined below. For more general information about restricting access, see Setting up and Using the Restrict Access Settings.
Another feature that may be helpful in some cases is to give a specific student a different time limit or number of attempts in a quiz than the whole class is doing. See Adding an Override to a Quiz Activity.
Teachers may wish to have the learner’s activities completely separate from those for the rest of the class. In this case, access can be restricted to an entire section of the Moodle course area, where that learner’s materials are stored. Alternatively, if the learner in question simply needs a few different activities, it may be more effective to restrict access just to those activities. The process of changing these settings is the same either way.
Setting Restrict Access to an Activity, Resource, or Topic
1. On the course, click on the Turn editing on button.
2. Locate and click the Edit link next to the activity, resource, or topic to which the access restriction should be applied. In this example, we will restrict access to a SCORM.
3. Click on the Edit settings link in the drop-down menu.
4. Scroll down the Edit Settings page and click on the Restrict access link.
5. Click on the Add restriction button.
6. Click on User profile.
7. From the dropdown, choose Email address.
8. Enter the student’s address.
9. Click on the eye icon to hide the activity from the other learners.
Optional: To give another learner access to this content, follow steps 10 to 15. Otherwise, go to step 16.
10. Click the Add Restriction… button.
11. Click the User Profile button.
12. Change the all dropdown menu to any:
13. Click the on the eye icon to hide the activity from the other learners.
14. Type the email address of the second learner to have access to this content.
15. More learners can be added by clicking the Add Restriction… button followed by the User Profile button and then entering an email address in the User profile field text box.
16. Click either Save and return to course or Save and display buttons.
On the course home page, the activity is displayed for the teacher with the restriction message underneath:
The student who has access will see it as a regular activity. Other students will see not see it at all.
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