Howard Miller

I see that I commented on the ticket 6 years ago.

Unfortunately, the ticket (still) exists because I don't think there's any other easy way of locking those fields.

We have a not easy way - a plugin that nags teachers on the course if the start/end dates (and lots of other things) don't look right.

You can change pretty much anything you like in a custom theme. That's the "Moodle way" of dealing with this kind of thing. But it's potentially quite a lot of work / learning-curve for a small thing.

On the other hand, I'd caution against hacking core code. That rarely ends happily.

I get it that you asked a specific question but these are discussion forums and you must excuse us for trying to fully understand your issue. There are people here with a LOT of varied Moodle experience and it's entirely possible somebody may have a take on the situation you have not considered.

Can I give some friendly advice... perhaps it would saved us all a lot of time if you can phrased the question more like...

"I have added javascript to my site to enable Matomo to analyse the pages. However, there is some personal information that I don't want it to access. How can I make that information inaccessible to the analytics site?"

Which - reading between the lines - is actually what you are asking.

Then we could have asked. "But, do you just want to restrict it to the analytics thing or to your users as well?". And so on. But you didn't....

 

Anyway, now I actually understand the question fully, it'll be tricky. I can see some sort of 'analytics aware' custom theme. A lot of work. I suspect that most people would take the view that you don't allow analytics onto your site if you don't want it to read your data. 

So - you're saying that the OP has probably added some analytics code to his site. Not mentioned this (!) and is then suggesting that the information it can now "see" is a GDPR issue?

Sigh....

However, you're almost certainly correct.

I guess my first step would be to continuously run 'show processlist' in MySQL and see what it's doing with the database. It may give a clue.

Part of me thinks that duplicating a quiz may well take a few minutes - but this does seem excessive.