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# How to Set a Prerequisite for a Step

# How to Set a Prerequisite for a Step

**In this article:**
* Overview
* Set a prerequisite
* Remove a prerequisite
* Things to keep in mind
* FAQs
* Who can do this

## Overview
A prerequisite lets you gate one step behind another: the learner must finish the prerequisite step before they can complete this one. It's useful for enforcing an order — for example requiring an introduction to be completed before an assessment.

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## Set a prerequisite
1. Open your Pathway in the builder and hover over the step in the left steps panel.
2. Click the **cog** icon to open the step's settings panel.
3. Toggle **Has prerequisite** on.
4. In the **Prerequisite (optional)** dropdown, choose the step that must be completed first.

Your choice saves automatically. *"If selected, the prerequisite needs to be completed before this step can be completed."*

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## Remove a prerequisite
Switch **Has prerequisite** off to clear the prerequisite from the step.

## Things to keep in mind
* A step can't be its own prerequisite, and a step within a section can't use its own section as the prerequisite — those options aren't offered in the dropdown.
* If you delete a step that's used as a prerequisite, SuperPath warns you and removes the prerequisite from the step that depended on it.
* Changing a step's settings returns a published Pathway to a draft (unpublished) state, so publish again once you're done.

## FAQs
**Which steps can I pick as a prerequisite?**
Any other step in the same Pathway, except the step itself and the parent section of a step inside a section.

**Can a step have more than one prerequisite?**
No. Each step points to a single prerequisite step.

**What happens for the learner?**
The step stays locked until its prerequisite is completed.

## Who can do this
**Owners**, **Admins**, **Managers**, **Content Managers** and **Instructors** can set a step's prerequisite. **People Managers**, **Employees**, **Members**, **Volunteers** and **Restricted** users have read-only access to Pathways and cannot.