As admin, enable "Mobile services": Site administration ► Mobile app ► Mobile settings Create a new course with just one section and within the course the following modules: forum, label and page Enrol one user as student in the course Create a Token in the mobile app service for the user Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Open the console an execute this new curl request, replacing wstoken with the token you just created and the site url with yours. curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'courseid=2&wsfunction=core_course_get_contents&wstoken=3af67232a7596ceb658df4db329e5ad6' --compressed | python -m "json.tool" Check that in the response for the module type "label" the field "noviewlink" is set to true and the "description" field is not empty For the rest of the modules "noviewlink" should be set to false and there won't be a "description" field