With restrictions you can set conditions for the accessibility of the forum in two ways:

• Release conditions you use to determine when the forum is available (for example: students only see the forum if they have achieved a quiz score of 80% or higher. You can attach several release conditions to one forum).
• Group and section restrictions you use to determine for whom the forum is available (for example: only students from class 1 and 2 see the forum).

1. Navigate to Course Tools in your course's navbar.
2. Click Discussions. You land on the Discussies homepage.

1. Click on the arrow behind the desired forum.
2. Click Edit Forum.

1. Click Restrictions (second tab).
2. Check 'Hide from users' to make the forum invisible to students.
3. Under Availability, you can choose between the following options under 'Has a start date':
   • The forum is visible to students before the start date, but they can't access it yet.
   • The forum is visible and accessible to students before the start date, but they cannot post threads or replies in it yet.
   • The forum is not visible to students before the start date.
4. Under Availability, you can choose between the options under 'Has an end date':
   • The forum is visible to students after the due date, but they cannot access it.
   • The forum is visible and accessible to students after the end date, but they cannot post threads or replies in it.
   • The forum is not visible to students after the end date.
5. Check Show in calendar if you want these dates to appear in the student's calendar.

1. Under Release Conditions you can add terms when the forum is available:
   • Click Attach Existing to add existing release terms:
     • Select the desired conditions.
     • Click Link.
     • The release condition(s) is shown below
   • Click Create and Attach to add new release conditions:
     • Select the desired conditions.
     • Click Create.
     • The release condition(s) is shown below
2. Choose from the drop-down menu whether students must meet one condition or all conditions before they can access the forum.
3. Under Add Groups and Section Restrictions you can add conditions to whom the forum is available:
   • Check Restrict this forum to the following groups and sections to allow specific groups to access the forum.
   • Click Add groups and sections and select the desired group or section. Then click Add.
4. Click on Save and close to return to the Discussions homepage or on Save and add topic to create a topic (onderwerp aan te maken).