Permissions Category

Permissions Category

by Armando Silva -
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Hi so I am trying to set the permissions to a category, but to no avail.

The way I have it set up on Moodle 3.3.1:

Category A:

  -Course A

Category B:

If I go to permissions for Category A, I do not have any roles ( I deleted roles to have permission) in this section View folder content mod/folder:view 

but if I log in as a student with no access to the course, I can still access all the content in Category A. Is there something I am missing here? I want it so that I can not have permission to access any content in category A.


Thanks

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In reply to Armando Silva

Re: Permissions Category

by Helen Foster -
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Hello,

Please can you explain what you mean by 'I can still access all the content in Category A'. Do you mean courses in Category A?

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Re: Permissions Category

by Armando Silva -
Hi Helen,


Yes, the course in Category A are still accessible even though I went to the permission settings of Category A and removed permissions for the roles of "Guest" and "Student" on view contents in folder.

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Re: Permissions Category

by Helen Foster -
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The view folder content capability only controls whether a user can view a Folder resource and not courses within a category.

You can prevent users from accessing courses within a category by not allowing guest access or self-enrolment to the course. However I don't think it's possible to prevent them from seeing the names of the courses within the category.

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Re: Permissions Category

by Armando Silva -

Hi Helen,


Thank you for the information. I am writing my own php code in course/render.php to check whether any of user's enrolled classes are in that category, if not they do not have access. So my question is answered, thank you again.

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