When we talk about Moodle data we are referring to both the user and the course information and binary files that are within the platform. In the previous chapter we were talking about user files only. Now we will focus our attention to the protection and separation of internal Moodle data between valid platform users. The topics we will cover include:
User information protection
Course information protection
Every user within Moodle has a profile which can contain information we may or may not want to show to other users, or at least not to all of them. The level of exposure will depend on the privacy policy we want to adopt. For example, we may want to completely isolate users within a course so that nobody knows who else is participating, or we may want to expose just the user names and nothing else, and so on. Let us first describe how Moodle handles presentation of user profiles. This is important as it will expose internal workings...