How would you achieve this

How would you achieve this

by George Hill -
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Sometimes we are confronted with the simplest of puzzles and need help

This should be a simple task, but spent for three full days trying to achieve what appears initially to be a simple task

Using moodle 1 .99

I have 3 courses

Course one: I wish only registered, authenticated and logged in users to be able see.

Course two: I wish any visitors (not logged in) to be able to see

Course three. I wish only registered, authenticated and logged in users to be able see.

My puzzle:

I can achieve: Initially visitors only see course two and if they go to either 1 or 3 link they are sent to the registration page and are asked to register as a guest (Great) ( If I “hide” the guest button all three courses are hidden so need to have "show button")

However, after they log in as a guest (to be able to see course two) and happen to return to the front page through the link they can then see and open the other two courses as a guest?

How do I completely hide two courses,  to anyone who is not fully registered including guests.

Or prevent guests from being able to return to the front page through the courses link

I have tried what I believe is every combination eg “Do not let guests” “Groups” permissions etc

Can anyone please tell me?  Is this a function of the course settings or permissions. Or how would you achieve this.

Please help a frustrated chef and please work on the kiss principle

Thank you

George Hill

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Re: How would you achieve this

by Howard Miller -
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I'm almost certain that there is no way to do that. Variations on "how do I hide stuff from....?" are quite common questions but Moodle was never really designed with that in mind.

Can I turn it on its head and ask what's so terrible about those courses that you have to hide them from people (even if they can't access them)? wink
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Re: How would you achieve this

by Doug Moody -

I remember some talk about a similar problem. The way it was done was to run a cron job that put up a firewall at certain times so that certain URLs could not be reached.

 

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Re: How would you achieve this

by Howard Miller -
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That sounds crazier than a very crazy thing.

At the end of the day, if you * have* to have this sort of behaviour then the code has to be hacked, but there's all sorts of places that can display lists of available courses. It can get messy.

As I said, though, do you *really* need to do this (not you the OP)?
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