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title: Restricting Access Using Video Completion
description: "This guide explains how to **restrict access to other activities** in a Moodle course based on **Video Lesson completion**. This allows you to ensure that students watch a video before they can access quizzes, assignments, or other activities. ### Before…"
url: "https://www.mooplugins.com/docs/video-lesson-activity/using-video-lesson/restricting-access-using-video-completion/"
updated: "2026-03-09"
category: Video Lesson Activity / Using Video Lesson
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# Restricting Access Using Video Completion

This guide explains how to **restrict access to other activities** in a Moodle course based on **Video Lesson completion**.

This allows you to ensure that students watch a video before they can access quizzes, assignments, or other activities.

### Before you begin

Make sure that:

- A Video Lesson Activity exists in the course
- Video completion is enabled for that activity
- Completion is based on watch percentage or another completion rule

For details, see [How Video Completion Rules Work](/docs/how-video-completion-rules-work/).

### Step 1: Configure completion for the Video Lesson Activity

- Open the Video Lesson Activity settings.
- Scroll to the **Activity completion** section.
- Enable completion tracking and select **Require watch percentage**.
- Set the percentage students must watch before the activity is marked complete.
- Save the activity.

Completion must be working correctly before it can be used to restrict access.

### Step 2: Open the activity you want to restrict

Go to the activity that should be unlocked after the video is completed.

This could be:

- A quiz
- An assignment
- Another Video Lesson
- Any Moodle activity that supports access restrictions

Edit the activity settings.

### Step 3: Add a restriction based on activity completion

- Scroll to the **Restrict access** section.
- Click **Add restriction** and choose **Activity completion**.
- Select the Video Lesson Activity from the list.
- Set the condition to **must be marked complete**.

### Step 4: Choose how the restriction is displayed

Decide how the restricted activity should appear to students before completion.

You can choose to:

- Show the activity but prevent access
- Hide the activity entirely until completion

This choice affects student visibility but not the restriction logic.

### Step 5: Save and test the restriction

Save the activity settings.

View the course as a student.

### Common use cases

Restricting access using video completion is commonly used for:

- Requiring students to watch an introduction video before a quiz
- Unlocking assignments after mandatory training videos
- Enforcing linear learning paths
- Compliance and certification workflows

### Important notes

- Restrictions are evaluated per student
- Completion depends on the configured completion rules
- Students cannot bypass restrictions without completing the video
- Teachers and administrators are not affected by these restrictions