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Context freezing, an experimental feature in Moodle 3.6, activated from | Context freezing, an experimental feature in Moodle 3.6, activated from Development/Experimental settings, allows administrators or those with the relevant capability to make categories, blocks, courses or course content 'read-only', that is, preventing users from modifying or adding to the content. | ||
*Administrators can always modify frozen content, unless the setting 'Context freezing applies to administrators' is enabled, from Development/Experimental settings. | *Administrators can always modify frozen content, unless the setting 'Context freezing applies to administrators' is enabled, from Development/Experimental settings. | ||
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''' There are some unexpected behaviours since this is still an experimental feature. These include: | ''' There are currently some unexpected behaviours since this is still an experimental feature. These will be addressed in later releases. These include: | ||
*the possiblity still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen | *the possiblity still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen | ||
*the possiblity to move and hide frozen blocks | *the possiblity to move and hide frozen blocks | ||
Revision as of 08:17, 30 November 2018
Context freezing, an experimental feature in Moodle 3.6, activated from Development/Experimental settings, allows administrators or those with the relevant capability to make categories, blocks, courses or course content 'read-only', that is, preventing users from modifying or adding to the content.
- Administrators can always modify frozen content, unless the setting 'Context freezing applies to administrators' is enabled, from Development/Experimental settings.
- Regular users may be given the capability moodle/site:manage context locks in certain contexts, meaning, for example, teachers may lock whole courses once they are over, or they may close forums when discussions are to be ended.
Note: There are currently some unexpected behaviours since this is still an experimental feature. These will be addressed in later releases. These include:
- the possiblity still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen
- the possiblity to move and hide frozen blocks
- no possiblity of unfreezin a label because its settings are not available in Boost.
For more information, see the discussion in MDLQA-12872
