Course information protection

Protecting information contained within or related to the course is important. We will try to establish potential weak points in accessing course data and ways to eliminate them or at least reduce the exposure. This primarily focuses on course backups since they treat potentially sensitive user information.

Course backups

Moodle offers a possibility to create backups of your courses. This feature is essential in maintaining history of changes within a specific course and also offers safeguard against any potential errors or hardware crashes. You should be aware of the backup process in greater detail in order to better understand potential pitfalls and security problems that may occur.

During course backup process Moodle offers a possibility to choose which parts of a course we want to save. By default only users with Administrator or Teacher role can perform course backup. If user has moodle/backup:userinfo capability enabled then he will be able to take the...