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# How to Require Approval When Learners Self-Assign a Pathway

# How to Require Approval When Learners Self-Assign a Pathway

**In this article:**
* Overview
* Require approval for self-assignment
* Choose who approves
* Things to keep in mind
* FAQs
* Who can do this

## Overview
When a Pathway is available in the Library, learners can assign it to themselves. If you'd rather review those requests first, turn on **Requires approval on self assign** for the Pathway. Learners then have to be approved before they can start, and you choose who does the approving — their manager, specific people, or both.

## Require approval for self-assignment
1. Go to **Pathways** and open the Pathway.
2. In the pathway header, click the **Settings** (cog) icon to open the **Pathway settings** panel.
3. Make sure **Available in Library** is on — the approval option only appears for Library Pathways.
4. Turn on **Requires approval on self assign**.

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## Choose who approves
Once approval is required, a **Self assign approval** block appears with two options — you can use either or both:

1. **Manager to approve** — the learner's manager approves the request.
2. **Choose other approvers** — turn this on to search for and add specific people or Teams as approvers.

Your selections save automatically.

> **Note:** Self-assign approval can be configured in three different places in SuperPath — at the **Pathway** level (this article), on an individual **step**, and at the point of **assignment**. This article covers only the Pathway-level setting. Use the step and assign-time options when you need finer control over a particular step or a one-off assignment.

## Things to keep in mind
* The approval option only appears when the Pathway is **Available in Library** and learning requests are enabled for your account.
* Turning **Available in Library** or **Requires approval on self assign** off resets the approver choices for that Pathway.
* Approval applies to **self-assignment** — it governs learners assigning the Pathway to themselves from the Library.

## FAQs
**Where does the approval option come from?**
It appears in the Pathway settings once the Pathway is available in the Library and your account has learning requests enabled.

**Can both a manager and specific people approve?**
Yes. You can enable **Manager to approve** and **Choose other approvers** together.

**Is this the same as step-level approval?**
No. This is the Pathway-level self-assign setting. Approval can also be set on individual steps and at assign time — see those flows for step-specific or one-off control.

## Who can do this
**Owners**, **Admins**, **Managers**, **Content Managers** and **Instructors** can set self-assign approval on a Pathway. **People Managers**, **Employees** and **Restricted** users have read-only access to Pathways and cannot change this setting.