In a course create a stealth section with one or more orphan activities (this is done configuring the course to have, for example, 10 sections, adding activities to the last section, and then reducing the number of sections for the course either by using the small minus at the bottom of the course or through the course settings page), this section is not visible by students but the activities can be accessed via a direct link or the activities block As admin, enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► Mobile Create a Token in the mobile app service for one user: Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the user replacing the course id curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'courseid=4&wsfunction=core_course_get_contents&wstoken=12a2a65aeea2a177055e233f9e303218' --compressed Please, check that in the response the not visible section has a 1 in the hiddenbynumsections field and the normal sections have a 0