Moodle in English: Determining access to an activity or file on a course page for student and teacher role

Determining access to an activity or file on a course page for student and teacher role

by DaVinci Menno - Thursday, February 20, 2020, 12:00 AM

Hello,

I am trying to allow activities and documents (H5P, PDF, etc.) to be seen by users based on their profile fields.

Allow me to explain this on a hypothetical situation:

Student and teacher A and B with profile field ''A1'', can see H5P Activity 1 and PDF-file ''red'',

Student and teacher X & Y with profile field ''A2'' can see H5P Activity 2 and PDF-file ''blue''.

However, if I turn the settings for determining access to the activity, I can only make it non-visible for students, based on their profile field. Teachers can still see this activity.
Inside the ''grant access to''- submenu, I only see ''student has to fulfill prerequisite = profile field 'A1.''

Is there a way in which we can make these activities invisible for the teacher role as well, in case their profile field does not fulfill the requirements?

I'd like to thank you in advance for thinking along.

Kind regards,

Menno

Re: Determining access to an activity or file on a course page for student and teacher role

by Ray Hinton - Saturday, February 29, 2020, 5:02 AM

Hmm, how about in that course, you remove Teacher permission from the capability "Ignore availability restrictions" (moodle/course:ignoreavailabilityrestrictions)? I.e. Participants page > Actions menu > Permissions. Then, search for the capability and just delete the Teacher role (I do not think you need to explicitly Prohibit them, unless they have some other role in that context that might allow them).

When you are setting the Restriction, you may also wish to click the eyeball so that meeting the condition completely hides the activity, since even Teachers do not need to see the extra activities.

Just be a bit careful, since if you are using Restrictions to control access to other items in the course, then this will affect those, too. In that case, consider adjusting the Permission at the Activity level. That just requires more work if you have lots of activities, but lets you really fine tune the experience.

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Re: Determining access to an activity or file on a course page for student and teacher role

by DaVinci Menno - Monday, March 2, 2020, 3:23 PM

Hi Ray,

Thanks for your answer. I removed the permission as you recommended and it worked!
You make a valid point in your last paragraph. Since this is useful for one category, I have only deleted the restriction for that specific category.

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