As admin, enable "Mobile services": Site administration ► Mobile app ► Mobile settings Create or use an existing course with some activities Enrol one user from the site in that course Create a Token in the mobile app service for the user from the previous step 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, the course (step 2) id and the site url with yours. curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'courseid=YOUR_COURSE_ID&wsfunction=core_course_get_contents&wstoken=YOUR_WS_TOKEN' --compressed | python -m "json.tool" Confirm that: In the curl request-response, you see listed all the sections and course modules within the sections that match the course structure that is displayed in the web browser For each module, you see a contextid field which value matches the value for the context id of the module Note: An easy way to check the context id value via the Moodle interface is just opening the main page of the module as administrator, then clicking in the settings cog and placing the mouse over the "Permissions" link. You will see a parameter "contextid" in the link with the context id value.