Admin restricted content lets you restrict individual assessment guide levels at each of your schools. When a guide level is restricted, the content within it is hidden from teachers and blocked from students, but teachers retain full access to assignment tools, student results, and reports.
This is useful whenever you need to reserve or secure a set of questions. For example, you might:
Protect a common assessment or internal benchmark
Secure a TIA-approved practice exam so that the teachers whose outcomes depend on it can’t preview the questions in advance.
Note: Once a guide level is restricted, its content is blocked for everyone except admins until you remove the restriction. Per-assignment authorization (granting specific students access to restricted content for a specific assignment, while teachers stay blocked) will be released in the future.
Who can use this feature?
Only School and District Admin can restrict content access.
This feature is only available with the Pro Upgrade. At schools without the Pro Upgrade, the restriction toggle can't be turned on.
Restrictions are applied per school. If you have admin access for several schools, you choose which schools each restriction applies to.
What content can be restricted?
Restrictions are available for assessment guide levels only.
You cannot restrict content in:
Practice guides
Free response guides
Adaptive subjects
How do I restrict assessment content?
Go to the assessment guide within the subject you want to secure.
Scroll to the guide level you want to restrict and hover over it, then open the the kebab menu (three vertical dots).
Select Manage restrictions. (This option is visible to admins only.)
You’ll see a list of the schools you administer. Toggle the restriction on for each school where you want the content secured.
Review the usage warning, which tells you how the content is currently being used, then confirm that you’ve read it.
Click Confirm. The content is immediately restricted at the schools you selected, and the guide level will show a message indicating the content is restricted.
Note: Restricting a guide level can affect assignments that are already in progress. Because of that, the confirmation step shows you how the questions are currently being used: for example, how many open and closed assignments include them.
Albert does not prevent you from restricting content that’s in active use. If you restrict a guide level used in open assignments, students working on those assignments will immediately lose access to the restricted questions.
How do I remove restrictions?
Restrictions are reversible. To lift one, return to the guide level’s Manage restrictions menu and toggle the restriction off for the relevant school. Access returns to normal and teachers and students can once again view the content.
Where do restriction indicators appear?
To reduce confusion, clear indicators and messaging appear everywhere restricted content shows up:
Assessment guide: a lock indicator next to restricted guide levels; questions and titles are shown as restricted.
Assignment builder: a lock indicator on restricted guide levels in the subjects and topics menu.
Practice views: restricted question titles are replaced with “restricted question,” and the question content area shows it’s blocked, while result counts remain visible.
Reports: teachers keep the full data report; only the question content (including the title in the row) is hidden.
Assigning restricted questions: if a teacher assigns an assignment containing restricted questions, they see a warning that students won’t be able to access those questions.
What happens when content is restricted?
For Teachers
Teachers at the affected school can no longer see the content of any question in a restricted guide level, including the question title. Everywhere restricted content appears, they’ll see a lock indicator and a short message explaining that access was restricted by their admin.
Teachers can still:
Find restricted questions and add them to assignments (though they won’t see what the questions contain).
Assign the questions and see how students perform on them.
Retain full data visibility in Reports to monitor student progress. Only the question content itself is hidden.
Note: Teachers are always prevented from viewing restricted question content, with no exception. This is what protects your content year over year: you can reuse the same secured assessments across school years without teachers gaining access to the questions in between.
For Students
Students cannot view or answer restricted questions. This applies even to assignments that were already assigned to them before the restriction was applied.
If an assignment mixes restricted and unrestricted questions, students can continue answering the unrestricted questions as normal.
When a student reaches a restricted question, they see a short message that the question is restricted and to continue with the rest of their assignment.
There is no change to how students access assessment guide levels directly because they already can’t open those unless a teacher assigns them.
Note: Any answers a student submitted before a question was restricted are preserved and still count in teacher reports. The student simply can’t see the question or their earlier answer while the restriction is active. If you later remove the restriction, everything returns to normal.
For Admins
Admins can always view all question content, whether or not it’s restricted. Restriction never limits your own visibility.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to assignments that already contain restricted questions?
They keep working. The assignment stays assigned, and any unrestricted questions in it remain fully answerable. Restricted questions are blocked in place with a message. Nothing is deleted or unassigned, and if you later remove the restriction, everything returns to normal.
Can I restrict content that students are actively working on?
Yes. Albert doesn’t stop you from restricting a guide level used in open assignments, because the point is that you control access on your timeline. The confirmation flow warns you with usage counts so you can weigh the impact before confirming.
What happens to student work on a question that later gets restricted?
It’s preserved. An answer submitted before the restriction still exists and still counts in teacher reports. The student and teacher just can’t see the question content (or the answer to it) while the restriction is active.
How does this work for admins or teachers at multiple schools?
Restrictions are per school. You’ll see a toggle for each school you administer and can restrict any subset. For teachers, the rule is protective: if content is restricted at any school a teacher is affiliated with, it’s hidden from them. Students are scoped to the school of the classroom their assignment belongs to.
Can teachers ever see restricted content?
No. Teachers are always blocked from viewing restricted question content. This is intentional and permanent while the restriction is in place. It’s what keeps reused assessments secure year over year.
How will students access restricted questions on an actual assessment day?
That capability (authorizing specific assignments so assigned students can access the restricted content while teachers stay blocked) is coming in the future. Until then, restricting a guide level blocks its content for everyone except admins.