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Restriction by time
Availability restriction ::: availability_time
Maintained by 
Stefan Hanauska
Restrict activities / sections to a time period
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This plugin allows you to restrict activities / sections to a time period (every day).
You can use this for example for showing a greeting label or a warmup task to your students in the morning.
The plugin respects users timezone - so be aware that it can be manipulated by choosing another timezone.
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Stefan Hanauska (Lead maintainer)
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Applied to a section of my course, your plugin will allow the section to be open for a given duration.
Question: when the time is up, will the section be automatically closed to the student?
More precisely, currently in moodle, you can put restrictions on access to a section for a given time. However, when the time is up, unless the course page is refreshed, the section will remain open to the student...
Will your plugin automatically close the section at the end of the specified time?
Thank's for comments.
All the best.
Daniel
that's an interesting idea! Right now, availability_time does not support this kind of feature. But the restriction is effective for all activities in the section, so even if the list of activities is still visible to the students, the activities can't be used by them.
Best
Stefan
But then, what is the difference between your plugin and what moodle allows to do with date and time restrictions to sections access, I don't see.
Sorry if my question is stupid...
Daniel
the plugin allows to do that for every day. So you can make some content visible only from 8:00 to 9:00.
Best
Stefan