Title: Control What Students See
Course: Using Moodle > Section: Display Control

Teacher view vs Student view

Teacher view vs Student View

Feasibility Teachers will see everything that is available within a course. Students will only see what the Feasibility Teacher allows students to see.

Let's compare a teacher view with a student view.

Course Views
Student View | Feasibility Teacher View

Note in the above examples:

- The student is limited in what they see.
- The student does NOT see the folder "Section 1 Teacher Notes and Resources"
- The Feasibility Teacher does see the folder "Section 1 Teacher Notes and Resources"
- The student view ends with the first section.
- The Feasibility teacher view shows Section 2 (and much more, though not shown in the screen shot).
- Additionally (though not shown in the screen shot), the Feasibility teacher will have the option to turn editing on.

Show/Hide

Using Show/Hide

One of the easiest ways to control what students see is to use the Show/Hide button to, well, Show or Hide material. Show/Hide can be used for whole sections or individual activities/resources.

In order to use Show/Hide, you must turn editing on.

There are two ways to turn editing on:

1. Use the "Turn editing on" button on the top right hand side of the page. This will be to the right of the Breadcrumbs. It looks like a pencil in a box with a green square. (Once editing is turned on, it will turn to a red square to signify that if you click it, it will turn editing off).
2. In the Administration block, under the Course administration link will be a Turn editing on link. (You may need to click the box to the right of the word Administration to reveal links in the block. Then click the Course administration link to reveal the links available in that folder).

Once Editing is turned on, you will be able to use Show/Hide.

For a Section

You will see an eye to the right side of the Section. The eye will open ( )if the information is being shown or closed ( ) if the section is currently hidden. Clicking that icon will cycle through those options.

For an Activity/Resource

You will see an edit link with a drop down menu. In that drop down, you will have a link to either Hide (if the item is being shown) or to Show (if the item is currently hidden).

Edit-Show/Hide Activities/Resources
Currently visible | Currently hidden
Notice that the eye is open, indicating that the Activity is currently visible. Clicking on the word Hide will change the item to be hidden. | Notice that the eye is closed, indicating that the item is currently hidden. Clicking on the word Show will change the item to being visible.

Show/Hide is a great manual way to control what students can see.

Students and Teachers

As noted earlier there are several different roles within the ATEP Moodle installation. Two of those roles are Student and Feasibility Teacher.

- Yes
Feedback: Correct. Feasibility Teachers will see everything available within the course. Students will only see the things that the Feasibility Teacher has made visible.
- No
Feedback: Oops. Feasibility Teachers will see everything available within the course. Students will only see the things that the Feasibility Teacher has made visible.

Hidden material

Some of the material within the ATEP courses is for use by the teacher only. This material has been hidden from students. These may be labelled "Teacher Resources" or "Instructor Notes". Hidden materials will be greyed out. The "Eye" at the end of the line will also be closed. See the example below:

In the example above, the students will be able to see:

- Project Management - Resources
- Project Management Quiz

However, students will not be able to see the "Project Management - Instructor Notes". This is hidden from students and only available to the Feasibility teacher.

*Take care to not click on the "Eye". Clicking on the "Eye" will Show the material to the students.

In an update to the structure of the course, we have moved to hiding this material by utilizing permissions. Thus, the folders and materials will NOT be hidden. There is no need to be concerned about selecting "show" or clicking on the eye icon. The material will show up for teachers like all other material. However, students will not see these materials.

To accomplish hiding the folder via permissions, open the folder that you want to change. In the Administration block, under Folder administration, select Permissions.

A new screen will open where you can control which group of users sees the resource.

In this example, Guest and Student roles are prohibited from Viewing the folder content.