Moodle in English: Restrict user access to courses

Restrict user access to courses

by Jason Yeung - Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:13 PM

Hi all,

First of all new here big grin so I hope you all would go easy on me with my question haha. Anyway our school is linked up with another school and I was told to setup area which the other school can login to and browse through presentations etc but my problem now is trying to stop their staffs to access our school course areas. I know one way to prevent them from accessing our school course areas is by asking all the staffs (at my school) to add an enrolment key to their courses. But is there any other way around this like instants can I set an certain user/s to access to an certain area in moodle and deny them access to the rest of the areas.

Re: Restrict user access to courses

by Ken Task - Monday, March 22, 2010, 10:22 PM

This suggestion only good IF the other school has a Moodle of their own ... if this is not the case, then ignore the following:

Moodle Networking might provide the solution you seek. Moodle server at your school mnet'd with the other school's Moodle.

The Moodle server administrators would have to coordinate, but basically, each administrator can: a) restrict what categories and courses are available to mnet users or "pre-enroll" students in certain courses. Suggest that "keys" still be used, however.

See: http://docs.moodle.org/en/admin/mnet

Have been attempting to interest a state technology organization to give mnet a serious look for it has potential. Please see:
http://moodle.tcea.org/area3/course/view.php?id=2
Initial access to the above site via Guest allowed, but please read the suggestion concerning logging on.

At present, the Network Servers link to "HUB" and Learning ISD aren't functioning.
(have to update the certs and have other things to do today) but the others work!

Yours, in the "spirit of sharing",
Ken

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Re: Restrict user access to courses

by Mary Cooch - Monday, March 22, 2010, 10:28 PM

Hi Jason

-if they are logging into your Moodle, to be honest, the simplest and easiest way is to put enrolment keys on all your courses. It's good practice anyway.

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Re: Restrict user access to courses

by Chris Collman - Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 12:48 AM

Is this your Moodle site, or is it a joint one with the other school? Did you allow them to be teachers or students in your courses and now want to change that? "Areas" and "Access" is a little vague for a context. Do you mean course categories, or courses or sections within a course, see only or hide completely?

This sort of thing is discussed a lot in Business Uses of Moodle course.

If it is your site and you are being friendly, then create a new role for them. Copy the guest role and start from there

Sounds like it is OK if they view your course titles but not get into the course. You can get granular with roles and course overrides.

Make sure you have manual enrollment or an enrolment key as Mary suggested for your students. Problem with keys is that they can be shared. Problem with manual enrollment is somebody has to do it.

Once you open the door it is hard to change the rules in a friendly manner. I would give them a few, non sensitive courses to look at or borrow some of the "Cool Moodle" courses or Features Demo course for your site

Chris

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