Enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► Mobile Create a WS Token for one user on the site: Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the user. You need to replace the wstoken, and the URL of your moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=tool_mobile_get_config&wstoken=12a2a65aeea2a177055e233f9e303218&section=mobileapp' | python -m "json.tool" Check that in the WS response the tool_mobile_disabledfeatures value is empty Go to Site administration ►Mobile app ►Mobile features - Disabled features Disable the "Download course" and "Download courses" under the Course section features by selecting the two of them, disable also "Offline use" (the first option) and click "Save changes" Execute again the same curl Request Check that in the WS response, in the tool_mobile_disabledfeatures value field, you see listed the two features your disabled (NoDelegate_CoreOffline, NoDelegate_CoreCourseDownload and NoDelegate_CoreCoursesDownload) Now, execute the following curl request but this time only changing the URL of your Moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=pEz3ihR1lC' --data-binary ' [{"index":0,"methodname":"tool_mobile_get_public_config","args":{}}] ' | python -m "json.tool" Check that you also see the tool_mobile_disabledfeatures field with the same value than the previous request.