Hi,
I have few blocks for teachers and few blocks for students.
I want to have specific dashboards for both of them,
I tried assigning students to that block, then taking away view rights for that blocks from students. But its still showing in Student account.
Can you please help me on how to prevent a student account to view a specific block.
I want to accounts permissions and removed view block capability. which makes the dashboard empty.Please help me.
https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Dashboard
This might help you. Please refer documentation as per your moodle version.
Hi Nanda,
Did you ever achieve this?
Thanks
catherine
He's no longer enrolled so I don't think you're going to get an answer
HI - Since the dashboard is not in the context of a course, removing the "student" or "teacher" view capability will work here. Instead, you need to make a Mask!
Basically: You'll make a new role that is applied at the block= level. It wont' have to have any permissions set (just 3 removed). Then place all of your teachers in it and on your Dashboard set up page / reset the dashboard, and then you're all set.
1. Site Admin - Users - Permissions - Define Roles
2. Click Add a New Role
3. Choose 'No Role' as the arch type
4. Give it a name (ie. Dashboard Mask)
5. Check off "Block" context
6. Leave everything else as "not set" and scroll down to the bottom of the page where you see the "Block" section:
Change the following three permissions to "Prohibit":
"Edit a Block's settings"
"View Block"
"Manage Blocks on a Page"
8. Click save changes.
1. Site Admin - Appearance - Default Dashboard page
2. Click "Blocks Editing On"
3. In the Course Overview Block, click the Cog and select "Assign Roles"
4. You'll see your Daskboard Mask listed and a '0' - click on "Dashboard Mask"
5. Add all of your staff to it (you will just have to maintain this as you get new staff members)
7. Navigate back to Site Admin - Appearance - Default Dashboard page
8. Click "Reset Dashboard for all users"
This works for me on Moodle 3.4
Hi John,
Thank you for taking the time to reply and for the detailed instruction. However, it's still not working for me - and I'm thinking now there could be a bug given the contradictions in the attached screenshots.
Screenshots are from a local Moodle install with a user called 'staff staff' who has been assigned the role.
Is it possible that there is another setting/step you didn't mention?
Hi - I meant to say this works for me on moodle 3.1.4 (with the old course overview block). I am upgrading to 3.4 this week and will try this method there and see what I can come up with.
Thanks John
Hi - I just did the steps on 3.4 with the new overview block and it does work for me as described above.
I did not change any other permissions:
and my Permission overview is identical to your image:
So, I'm not sure why it's not working on your end - yes other permissions could be at play...
But 1 thing did happen now that I'm using this "Mask" idea on 3.4's new overview block - when I log in as that user, they get an exemption thrown (something that didnt happen on the old block on 3.1), so I'm not sure how to get around that just yet:
Hello,
I am currently running module 3.6 and am having a problem hiding a block on the dashboard from a role.
1. I created a new role.
2. In the block on the dashboard that I want to hide, I edited the permissions and for the role I created I set all View Block to Prohibit.
3. I then added the users that I want to hide this block from and added them to the role I created.
When I log in as one of the users, they still see the block. Is this intentional?
Ron
Yes since users can only be a student within a course. On the dashboard, everyone is an authenticated user. To limit the block from view by certain users, those users need to be part of a role that is available at the site context (such as the authenticated user and manager).
I have made a "staff" role that has mostly no permissions but is set to the site context and I have added all my teachers to this role. This allows me to control what my staff see at site pages (like the dashboard or front page).
Therefore, I start with not allowing any user to see certain blocks site wide and then if I want staff to see it, i that role to the block's view permission.
Which block are you attempting to limit view from your students on the dashboard?
Wish I could control block visibility by cohort!
Thank you for the reply.
I am trying to hide the Courses block from a small set of but allow them to use the My Courses block. For all other users I want them to see the Courses block. If the My Courses block showed Categories, I wouldn't need the Courses block.
Steps I took:
Thinking that perhaps this was related to the Courses block being in the "Content area" I moved it to the right column and Reset the Dashboard for all users. The user can still see the Courses block.
Could there be a bug in the Courses block that it is not checking block:view permission?
Thought I would check one more time before reporting this as a bug. Is this behavior intentional or should what I am trying to do be possible?
Thanks!
Ron
Just checking that you did the same for the authenticated user role, as all system users also are authenticated users.
Not sure what you mean by "...did the same for the authenticated user role...". I want all authenticated users, except those assigned the "No courses" role to see the courses block. This is much simpler and easier to maintain then deny all authenticated users and then assigning the majority of users to a role that allows them to see the course block.
What it looks like is that permissions for the authenticated user role over-ride all other roles.
