Moodle lets Instructors of record and Other editing teachers hide an entire course site to prevent students, auditors and guests from seeing it. Similarly, Moodle allows course instructors to hide course sections, assignments, and materials.
Before you start, you need:
- an Instructor of record or Other editing teacher role in a Bryn Mawr Moodle course
Hide/show entire course
Warning: Hiding an academic course during pre-registration and registration confuses students, who may think they have been unenrolled when it disappears from their Moodle Dashboards. Please leave the course visible and instead hide the sections containing the content you don't wish them to see.
- Log into Moodle and open the course you wish to hide.
- Choose Settings.
- Set Course Visibility to Hide (invisible to students, even if enrolled) or Show (visible).
- Click Save and Display.
Hide/show course elements
Manually
Manually hide course sections, activities or resources that you don't wish students and guests to see. (Instructors of record, Other editing teachers, Non-editing teachers will still see them, but with a Hidden from students tag attached.)
To hide an item:
- Toggle Edit mode on.
- Click (Edit) next to a visible item.
- Choose Availability drop down menu, then select Hide on course page.
- Moodle adds a Hidden from students tag to remind teachers that an item is invisible; students cannot see this tag.
To unhide an item:
- Toggle Edit mode on (if needed).
- Click (Edit) next to an invisible item.
- Choose Availability, and select Show on course page.
Automatically, at a specified time
Add date restrictions to hide or reveal a course section, activity or resource to students and guests at a future date and time. The item remains visible to Instructors of record, Other editing teachers, and Non-editing teachers with a Restricted tag that summarizes the restriction parameters. (Students and guests do not see this tag when the item is visible to them.)
- Toggle Edit mode on.
- Click (Edit) next to a visible item.
- Choose Edit settings (if the item is an Activity or Resource) or Edit topic/week (if the item is a section within a course).
- Click Restrict access to expand it.
- Click Add restriction.
- Click Date.
- Leave the first phrase set to “Student must match the following” and use the drop-down menus to below it to configure your parameters, for example:
- To unhide an item on a specified date, leave the default (Displayed if student doesn't meet this condition) setting, and enter the date and time from which you want it to be visible. In the example depicted below, the item would become visible on August 4, 2023, at midnight.
- To hide an item on a specified date, leave the default (Displayed if student doesn't meet this condition) setting, change from to until, then enter the date and time at which you want the item to stop being visible.
- To set a window of time that an item is visible, configure the first restriction to set the date and time when the item becomes visible, then click Add Restriction to add a second that sets the date and time when visibility ends.
- Click Save to finalize your Setting changes.
Videos & further reading on courses and course sections
Questions?
If you have any additional questions or problems, don't hesitate to reach out to the Help Desk!
Phone: 610-526-7440 | Library and Help Desk hours
Email: help@brynmawr.edu | Service catalog
Location: Canaday Library 1st floor
