Changing to Kickstart course format: only allowed for specific roles

[AntonT76]

Hello,

our teachers are allowed to change course formats (topic format, grid format, ...). Is it possible to restrict changing to course format "Kickstart" for specific roles? In Moodle role management I didn't find any possibility.

Reason:

• Kickstart should only be available to teachers in new courses
• after selecting a template or importing a course, teachers are no longer permitted to change course format to "Kickstart" (we would like to avoid users to change course format to kickstart and some course content will be lost).

br, Anton

[stefanscholz]

Hi @AntonT76,

we do have two capabilities

format/kickstart:import_from_template (free)
local/kickstart_pro:import_other_courses (pro)

These two control wether a user can import templates (first one) and wether a user can import content from other courses (second one).

Neither of the capabilities though prevent the user from selecting the format in the first place. I have never seen a format to have a capability to "use" it in general.

I can check with my developers if it's possible.

One side note:
We do have a setting where admins can decide wether existing contents are deleted before importing a template or if it should be merged with the existing content. In the latter case, no contents would be deleted.

Best
Stefan