Eligibility Rules
Decide who is allowed to see an offering or a specific item, based on conditions you set.
Eligibility rules decide whether a learner is allowed to see content at all — your audience. For example, only learners enrolled in a certain program, or only those who passed a certain quiz, or only members of a particular group.
This is different from drip scheduling and prerequisites, which control when content opens. Eligibility decides who gets to see it in the first place.
Naming note. In the admin screens this tab is currently labelled "Prerequisite", but it does not control content order. It controls eligibility — who is allowed in. (True content sequencing lives in Prerequisites / drip.)
How rules are built
You build a rule out of conditions — facts about a learner — combined into groups:
- ALL (and) — the learner must match every condition in the group.
- ANY (or) — the learner must match at least one condition in the group.
You can combine groups to express things like "must be in Program A and (passed Quiz 1 or belongs to the Scholarship group)".
Examples of conditions you can use:
- Enrolled in a certain program.
- Passed a certain quiz.
- Belongs to a particular group or audience.
Where you can apply a rule
| Level | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Whole offering | Who can access the entire course, learning path, or cohort. |
| A specific item | Who can access one particular lesson, section, or quiz. |
A rule on a whole course or cohort also restricts the content inside it. A learner who isn't eligible for the course can't reach its inner lessons by any route — there's no back door.
How to set it up
- Open the offering (or a specific item) in Admin and go to the eligibility tab (currently labelled Prerequisite).
- Add a condition, and choose ALL or ANY for how conditions combine.
- Add more conditions or groups as needed.
- Save.
Edits take effect immediately — there's no waiting period for a changed rule to apply.
What the learner sees
Content a learner isn't eligible for simply doesn't appear in their view — it's filtered out.
The learner is not shown a detailed reason for why something is hidden. There's no "you need to pass Quiz 1" message — the content just isn't there. Keep this in mind when you design rules, and tell learners about requirements through other channels (like an announcement) if they need to know.
Reused content stays independent
Like scheduling, eligibility is independent between a standalone course and the same course reused inside a learning path. A rule you set inside the learning path doesn't change the standalone course, and vice versa.
To control the order learners move through content (rather than who can see it), use prerequisites. To see how eligibility, scheduling, and prerequisites combine, read How access works together.