can we make visible course only for an IP address ?

Re: can we make visible course only for an IP address ?

by Ken Task -
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Not at course level.
But there is this plugin:
https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_ip

can't afford to have 2 moodle servers
but is server hosting capable of virtual apaches - two moodle instances by
a different FQDN?  IF so, one could have  dev.site that's not in DNS
Persons needing to use dev would need an entry made in their host file
that maps ip address to none existent in DNS FQEN of the dev.site.

How many persons would need access to this course before it went live?
And from where are those folks accessing this under-development course?
What abilities would those persons need?

What If one were to create a special roll ... devsonly ... and then grant that role capiblities to see hidden courses, etc.?

One does options but one size doesn't fit all ... catch 22's etc.

'spirit of sharing', Ken


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Re: can we make visible course only for an IP address ?

by REMI PICARD (substitute) -

thank you for your reply.


Activities can have a date AVAILABILITY filter.

it would be super to have an IP AVAILABILITY filter in courses, activities level.

Activities can be available with hidden feature too, it would be perfect if the courses could be hidden but been accessible when we (us, the testers, administrators) know the url...


Best regards.

Pierre


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Re: can we make visible course only for an IP address ?

by Jon Bolton -
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Why not just hide the course? Anyone enrolled as a teacher or above will still see it “greyed out” and will be able to access it and edit content, but it will be invisible to learners and guests - see https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Course_settings#Course_visibility

I usually go one further and have such hidden courses in a hidden “In Development” category, and move them to their proper category when everything is finished and it’s ready for students.

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Re: can we make visible course only for an IP address ?

by REMI PICARD (substitute) -
because hidding a course does not restrict its accessibility. malicious user can "play" the url by changind IDs of courses, of activities to discovers them....
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Re: can we make visible course only for an IP address ?

by Dave Perry -
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This was one thing I never saw improve from moodle 1.8 to 3.1 (SLT moved us to canvas a couple of years ago, so we didn't put any time into upgrades beyond that).

What we found was that if we 'hid' a course, so only staff to get to it, moodle's built in 'should this user see this hidden course / activity / resource' check was occasionally refusing staff the access to it. So we switched to using the enrol_auto plugin which let us say 'if this user is a member of staff, let them in' (by looking at certain user attributes in their profile - we have the Staff or Student flag in AD, and the LDAP connector is set to pull the most recent value of this flag in every time someone logged in to moodle). It's a great plugi

HTH

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