The Restrict Navigation feature allows you to control e-learning courses, guiding learners through your content in the desired sequence. This feature enhances the learning experience, promotes retention, and helps you achieve your training and educational goals.
Restricted Navigation can be beneficial in various scenarios, including:
Ensuring that learners complete sections and pages in a sequential order.
Maintaining a structured learning experience.
Confirming that learners engage with course content before moving on.
Preventing learners from skipping videos/audio files, questions, and interactive blocks, and potentially missing important information.
Note: Restrict Navigation is applied at the section and page level, and to the videos/audio files, narrations (except the embedded ones), question blocks and interactive blocks within each page.
How to enable the Restrict Navigation option
You can enable the restrict navigation option under Settings > Content and questions > Navigation settings > Restrict navigation:
Note: If your course was published before October 29, 2026, you'd need to republish it so the restrictions can also apply to interactive blocks.
By default, learners can move freely throughout a course. With the enabled feature, the restricted navigation is automatically applied to sections, pages, media such as videos and audio files, question blocks and interactive blocks. This means that learners cannot progress to the next section or page until the current one is fully completed.
Completion is defined as:
For content pages: opening a page, finishing all the videos, audio files, questions and interactive blocks on it, and clicking the Next button.
For questions: answering the question and clicking the Submit button. The content below the question stays locked until the learner submits it.
If the answer settings are set to After every question, learners can click Submit without selecting an answer and continue with the course, however, they will get this question incorrect.
For interactive blocks: completing the activity in the block. The content below it stays locked until the learner finishes it.
Here's what completion means for each interactive block:
Carousel: all slides are viewed.
Walkthrough & Scenario: The learner must reach any end step or scene.
Checklist: all items are checked.
Card Sorting: all cards are sorted.
How-to: all the steps need to be opened.
Hotspot: all hotspots are opened.
Flipcards: all cards are flipped.
Show More: all sections are expanded.
In Walkthrough and Scenario blocks, the learner must reach the final step or scene. If there's no final step or scene, the content block won't be restricted at all.
For media files: entirely watch videos and listen to the full audio. Learners are not able to skip or fast-forward them.
Note: The restricted navigation will not apply to embedded videos from third-party tools like YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
How the Restrict Navigation option works for learners
When starting the course, the learner can open only the first section and the first page from the introduction page:
On each page, learners can see the content up to the first video, audio file, question or interactive block they need to complete. The content below it stays locked until they finish it:
A message lets the learner know they need to complete the block before continuing.
Once the block is completed, the Next button appears.
The learner clicks Next to unlock the content below, up to the next block they need to complete.
When the page is completed, the learner can use only the Next button to navigate to the next page, and in the same way to move to the next section.
Completed blocks, pages and sections stay completed. Learners can use the left navigation menu to revisit any completed page or section without completing anything again:
Even if learners reach the mastery score early, they still need to go through the whole course. They can’t take shortcuts by clicking the Results button in the bottom left of the navigation menu:
NOTE:
In LMS for courses published as SCORM/xAPI, the learner needs to click the Submit Results button on the final page of the course. Without this step, the course won't be marked as finalized in the LMS, and the status will remain "Incomplete".
That’s why in LMS, the learner should go through each page of the course to be able to reach the final page. Clicking the Submit Results button at the end of the course is crucial to completing the course in LMS:
Important:
The restriction is not applied to:
Videos/audio files in the course introduction, question hints, feedback blocks (Correct/incorrect) and the Afterword section.
Embedded videos/audio files from third-party tools (YouTube, Vimeo, etc).
Question blocks and interactive blocks in a side-by-side layout.
Scenarios and walkthroughs that don’t have a properly linked end scene or end step.
FAQs
I enabled Restrict Navigation, but learners can still skip an interactive block. Why?
I enabled Restrict Navigation, but learners can still skip an interactive block. Why?
If your course was published before October 29, 2026, make sure you’ve republished it. If you have, check whether the block is one of the exceptions listed under Important above, for example a block inside Show more, Checklist or How-to, or a block in a side-by-side layout.
Does Restrict Navigation work with YouTube or Vimeo videos?
Does Restrict Navigation work with YouTube or Vimeo videos?
No. The restriction doesn’t apply to videos or audio files embedded from third-party tools like YouTube or Vimeo, so learners can skip them. To make sure learners watch a video in full, upload it to your course instead of embedding it.
Can learners skip a question by clicking Submit without answering?
Can learners skip a question by clicking Submit without answering?
It depends on your answer settings. If they’re set to After every question, learners can click Submit without answering and continue, but the question is marked incorrect. If they’re set to All questions at once, learners need to answer before submitting.
Why is my course still showing as “Incomplete” in the LMS?
Why is my course still showing as “Incomplete” in the LMS?
For SCORM/xAPI courses, learners need to click Submit Results on the final page. Without this step, the course isn’t marked as finalized in the LMS.
Do learners need to complete a block again when they return to a page?
Do learners need to complete a block again when they return to a page?
No. Completed blocks stay completed, and the content below them remains unlocked.