Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

by Naaman Fallouh -
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Hello,

I'd upgraded Moodle recently to 2.8.3 version and this causes all the existing activities and resources to appear in grey - as if they're hidden - in the teachers' accounts, see below snapshot:


Much more, I can see all other Teachers resources and activities which I shouldn't cause they were restricted in the "Common module settings" to be available for specific groupings.

What I saw is that the new "Restrict access" rules affects the Students only and have no effect on other kind of users, Teachers for example. Am I right in my thoughts?

And, mainly, how can I work around this problem? and have the activities and resources available only to the Teachers whom should could do that, and off-course not grey-ed ones?

Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

by Richard Oelmann -
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Teachers have full editing rights on the course and therefore will be able to see all resources, irrespective of groups - I don't think that's anything to do with your upgrade, I think that has always been the case.

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Re: Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

by Naaman Fallouh -

Thanks,

I'm totally aware of that, Teachers have full access on course, but previously I could prevent shared Teachers from getting access to others materials because of the feature `Available for group members only` see this: https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Available_for_group_members_only

And now the restriction rules are for students only !!
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Re: Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

by Mary Cooch -
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What happens if you remove the capability moodle/site:accessallgroups from your teachers? See Groups FAQ and the question How do I restrict a teacher to view only the groups they are enrolled in?
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Re: Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

by Naaman Fallouh -

I've already applied the instruction in the Groups FAQ you'd mentioned, but still the same.

Here is the permission of the Teacher role in the site administration settings:


And here it is in the course level from a Teacher account:



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Re: Moodle 2.8.3 new access rules cause activities to be hidden in Teacher account

by Przemek Kaszubski -
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"Prevent" might be too weak a setting ? Since you have upgraded, maybe course-level permissions override the site settings? Just a thought - this is a very interesting discussion for me.

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