To help learners focus on competency mastery, learners should show mastery before being asked to complete activities that require competency. Pearson Connexus supports this idea of building competency mastery by allowing content authors to limit access to activities using the students' completion of and performance on competency mastery.
Grant access based on objective mastery
To set grant access based on objective mastery:
- Create an activity or edit an existing activity.
- In the Settings tab of the Activity Editor, check the Block access until student master objective(s) on the Visibility and access card.
- Select Choose objective.

- Check the box(es) next to the Objective(s) you want students to master before moving on.
- Select Done.

Grant access based on activity completion
To set grant access based on activity completion:
- Create an activity or edit an existing activity.
- In the Settings tab of the Activity Editor, check the Block access until student completes other activity on the Visibility and access card.
- Select Choose activity.

- Check the box(es) next to the activity or activities you want students to complete before moving on.
- Select Done.
