User 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 of that subsystem and identify all access points and ways of disabling them if that is what we want to do.
User profile page
User profile page is used to define personal information about a user within a Moodle. It can contain name, surname, address, telephone, etc. The user profile page is reached by<Moodle URL>/user/view.php?id=<userid>&course=<courseid> where userid and courseid are identifiers of user and course...
