Capabilities/moodle/course:viewhiddencourses

• This allows a user to view hidden courses

How to change this setting so teachers can see courses that they themselves have hidden.

Written April 18, 2007, based on Moodle 1.8

1. Go to admin/roles/manage.php?action=edit&roleid=3

• Just paste the above after the URL to your Moodle.
• Or you can navigate to here using this route:
  • Administration >> Users >> Permissions >> Define Roles (then click "Teacher")

1. Do a "find" in your browser for "course:viewhiddencourses" or browse down to the "Courses" settings.
2. Click the 2nd radio button ("Allow")
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Save changes."

Related Links

• http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-9412?page=all
  • Teachers are able to change a setting that makes it so they can't access their own course.
• http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-7939?page=all
  • Courses hidden to students does not allow editing teacher to see and edit it
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=941&page=0
  • discussing roles and capabilities in Moodle 1.7 onwards
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/search.php?search=viewhiddencourses&id=5
  • All discussions related to viewhiddencourses
• https://docs.moodle.org/en/Roles_and_capabilities