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Context freezing, an experimental feature in Moodle 3.6, activated from Developmen/Experimental settings, allows administrators or those with the capability ....... to make categories, blocks, courses or course content 'read-only', that is, users from modifying or adding to the content.
Context freezing, an experimental feature in Moodle 3.6 onwards, 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.
 
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*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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'''Note:
'''Note:
''' 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 possibility still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen
*the possiblity to move and hide frozen blocks
*the possibility to move and hide frozen blocks
*no possiblity of unfreezin a label because its settings are not available in Boost.
*no possibility of unfreezing a label because its settings are not available in Boost.
 
For more information, see the discussion in MDLQA-12872.
 


For more information, see the discussion in MDLQA-12872
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Latest revision as of 11:25, 25 April 2019

Context freezing, an experimental feature in Moodle 3.6 onwards, 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 possibility still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen
  • the possibility to move and hide frozen blocks
  • no possibility of unfreezing a label because its settings are not available in Boost.

For more information, see the discussion in MDLQA-12872.