Restrict student access to course by date

Restrict student access to course by date

by Percy Astocaza -
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Hello,


I'd like to ask if moodle has a way to restrict enrolled students to access their course after a certain date, for example after a certaint date the course is "closed" and you cannot enter, maybe a redirect?

I'm not talking about the current restrict settings, with those the user can still enter the course, still can see the activities but greyed out, what I want is some kind of redirect or custom message.

If not, how can I approach this? We want this functionality, do I edit course/view.php?  (strongly against this) or can I do it by theme? If so, where?


I'm using moodle 3.2 with boost theme, thanks for the help!

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Sebastian Schedlbauer -

Do you require to keep the student enrolled? If not, you may set "Enrolment ends" for each student

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Percy Astocaza -

Yes, the user has to be enrolled

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Sebastian Schedlbauer -

Not sure if this is the right and only approach: If you don't want to touch the core, you might create an own course format plugin, which is loaded in course/view.php line 141.

Do your checks inside __construct() of your course format renderer, where you can access the course context, then either continue, or do your redirect/message.

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Percy Astocaza -

This seems to be the best solution, however i need to set the dates in a table somehow,  can i add a db folder to the format plugin like a local plugin?

And I also need a way to add this options to the course format inside the course edit settings page, right?

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Marina Glancy -
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Editing the enrolment dates is still the best solution.

Here is a little trick (hidden gem in moodle):

  • go to "Enrolled users" page
  • filter by the enrolment method (for example "Manual"). Do it even if all users are enrolled manually (filter form)
  • now checkboxes appeared next to each student name, check some/all students and edit their enrolments - you can specify the enrolment end time
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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Sebastian Schedlbauer -

As I understood the questioner this seems not to be an option, since he wants to keep the users enrolled for some reasons.


@Percy Astocaza: You can define custom course format options on course level, see course_format_options() in lib.php of the course format. For some specific code, you might check https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=format_masonry lib.php for it, the plugin adds some custom settings like border color, which can be altered in course settings. Using the same logic might enable you to define a end date here i guess.


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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Percy Astocaza -

Thank you very much Sebastian, I have a solid idea now smile

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Percy Astocaza -

The student has to be enrolled, otherwise he/she will lose his/her grades. Am I right?

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Re: Restrict student access to course by date

by Marina Glancy -
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When enrolment is suspended and/or expired all student grades are still present.

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