Encourage your customers to complete your course with locked content. Lock a module or submodule so customers must complete a lesson or pass a quiz before they can open it.
Lock modules and submodules
A lock holds a module or submodule until your customers finish the lesson, quiz, or assessment you choose. A submodule you don’t lock separately stays locked while its parent module is locked. To unlock content, customers can either:
Click Complete in a Lesson
Complete or pass a quiz or assessment
Set up locked content
You can lock modules and submodules, not individual lessons. To unlock a single lesson when another lesson is completed, place it in its own module or submodule.
From the Dashboard, click Products, then Courses.
Select an existing course or create a new course.
Click the Status dropdown menu next to the module or submodule you want to lock.
Select Lock.
In the Locked by lesson dropdown menu, select the lesson or quiz that unlocks the content when customers complete or pass it.
Note: A module can’t be unlocked by its own content, so choose a lesson or quiz from outside it. The lesson must be set to Published. A lesson set to Draft does not unlock the module.
Click Lock.
Note: Locks also apply to you when you preview your Course. If you open a locked module or lesson with Preview, you’ll see the “This Post is Locked” message until you complete the required lesson or quiz yourself. This only affects locks: dripped and draft content can still be previewed. To review student comments in a locked lesson, use the Comments Manager (Products > Courses > Manage Comments).
Lock based on completing or passing a quiz or Assessment
Note: The assessment feature inside of courses has been discontinued, but it may still appear in older accounts. The quizzes feature is available inside of courses and offers advanced functionality. Assessments can still be added to Web Pages.
Use quizzes or assessments to survey or test your Course customers. Require customers to complete or pass one before unlocking the next module or submodule.
Quizzes
To lock a module or submodule until a customer completes a quiz, whether they pass, fail, or the quiz is non-graded, select the quiz title from the Locked by lesson dropdown menu when you set up your locked content.
To lock a module or submodule until a customer passes a quiz that has a passing grade:
Select the quiz title from the Locked by lesson dropdown menu when you set up your locked content.
In your Quiz Settings, toggle on Set a passing grade.
Select the Prevent member from marking quiz as complete without a passing grade checkbox.
Tip: Create a quiz instead of an assessment to disable the Mark as Complete button in your Course lesson until the customer passes the quiz. Assessments do not offer this option.
Assessments
To lock a module or submodule until a customer completes a lesson that contains an assessment, customers can unlock it by either:
Clicking Complete in the lesson, unless you have hidden the Mark as Complete button
Completing or passing the assessment
Tip: Hide the Mark as Complete button in your lesson template so customers can unlock a locked module only by completing the assessment. Hiding the button removes it from all lessons in the Course, so customers must complete or pass an assessment to unlock every locked module.
What customers see when content is locked
If a customer tries to open a lesson inside a locked module or submodule before completing or passing the required lesson, quiz, or assessment, they see a This Post is Locked message:
You can’t customize the message text. To change its language (English, Spanish, and so on), update the Language in your Site Details settings.