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title: "Restricting Access by Date"
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**AUDIENCE:  **<span style="color: #bf2600">**FACULTY**</span>** | **<span style="color: #bf2600">**STAFF**</span>

It is possible to restrict access to activities and resources based on several different criteria. The most common of these criteria is restricting access by date. This tutorial shows how to restrict access to a page based on dates.

# Setup

Find the item you would like to add restrictions to, click on the three-dots menu, then select **Edit settings**.

![image](media://2ae2478a-b73f-4543-9679-2da9b1877baf)

Open the **Restrict access** menu within the page and click **Add restriction…**

![image](media://79b47b41-af14-452f-b6bf-d3ee9cfe4434)

To add a restriction based on dates, click **Date**.

![image](media://08ef40e6-f940-4a5f-96ef-34f884772af3)

Choose the availability date from the drop-down menu. 

![image](media://5740c4ab-3be1-41a0-a5fc-ce6da115bb9f)

To hide the page again after a certain amount of time, click **Add restriction** to add a date for the page to once again become inaccessible to students.

![image](media://8620f14f-36e4-4009-b64d-4309cd0e78b5)

This time, make sure to select **until** under the **Date** heading. Add the date to make it no longer accessible.

When dates are set, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click **SAVE AND RETURN TO COURSE.**



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