Completely disable Private Files for students

Completely disable Private Files for students

av Florian Leupold -
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I would like to

  • completely disable the Private Files functionality for all users but the admin,
  • purge all private files of all other users but the admin.

Is this possible? 

Several forum discussions and websites exist on that topic. All suggestions I could find are basically disabling the Private Files repository (which I understand only handles whether one can choose to link one's files, but does not affect the actual feature), or prohibiting all related permissions, as listed here: https://www.sysadjournal.com/disable-users-private-files-moodle/

I have done all of steps on that site. Yet, a regular user still sees the Private Files block on his dashboard and can still download a previously uploaded file.

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Re: Completely disable Private Files for students

av Luiggi Sansonetti -
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Hi

You can also proceed with this:

  • delete the block from Default Dashboard page
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Re: Completely disable Private Files for students

av Florian Leupold -

Thanks, that is a helpful step.

It seems like it might not be possible to complete disable this feature.

But can one purge the files that the students have already uploaded?

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Re: Completely disable Private Files for students

av cyber sec -
I tried removing Student permissions from this block. That seemed to do absolutely nothing.
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Re: Completely disable Private Files for students

av Walter Byrd -

I set the size of the file that students could upload to zero bytes. This seems to prevent students from uploading anything, while teachers are still allowed private files.

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