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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.
Context freezing is an experimental feature which allows administrators and users with the capability to manage freezing of contexts to make categories, blocks, courses or course content 'read-only'.


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*Administrators can always modify frozen content, unless the setting 'Context freezing applies to administrators' is enabled, from Development/Experimental settings.
To use this feature, you need to enable it in ''Site administration > 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:
Administrators can edit frozen content, unless the setting 'Context freezing applies to administrators' is enabled.
''' There are currently some unexpected behaviours since this is still an experimental feature. These will be addressed in later releases. These include:
 
Users may be given the [[Capabilities/moodle/site:managecontextlocks|Manage freezing of contexts capability]] enabling for example teachers to lock courses once they are over, or close forums when discussions have ended.
 
Note that, as this is an experimental feature, there are some unexpected behaviours. These include:
*the possibility still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen
*the possibility still to duplicate activities even when they are frozen
*the possibility to move and hide frozen blocks
*the possibility to move and hide frozen blocks
*no possibility of unfreezing a label because its settings are not available in Boost.
*no possibility of unfreezing a label because its settings are not available in Boost
*"Download all submissions" in a frozen assignment reports there are no submissions
 
==See also==


For more information, see the discussion in MDLQA-12872.
* [[Capabilities/moodle/site:managecontextlocks|Manage freezing of contexts capability]]
* Follow-ups for context freezing - MDL-63984




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Latest revision as of 08:00, 21 June 2024

Context freezing is an experimental feature which allows administrators and users with the capability to manage freezing of contexts to make categories, blocks, courses or course content 'read-only'.


To use this feature, you need to enable it in Site administration > Development > Experimental settings.

Administrators can edit frozen content, unless the setting 'Context freezing applies to administrators' is enabled.

Users may be given the Manage freezing of contexts capability enabling for example teachers to lock courses once they are over, or close forums when discussions have ended.

Note that, as this is an experimental feature, there are some unexpected behaviours. 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
  • "Download all submissions" in a frozen assignment reports there are no submissions

See also