Create a new course with just one section, create a new resource type imscp uploading an imscp valid package You can create an imscp package using the book resource, you can create a new book and use the "Export imscp" tool. Enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► External services Create a Token for the user (student) your are going to test with: Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Click add, select user and service (Mobile Service) Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client: You need to replace the wstoken and the URL of your moodle instance and the course id curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' -H 'Pragma: no-cache' -H 'Origin: file://' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch' -H 'Accept-Language: es,en;q=0.8,de-DE;q=0.6,de;q=0.4,nb;q=0.2' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1798.0 Safari/537.36' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01' -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' --data 'courseid=4&wsfunction=core_course_get_contents&wstoken=1b9cc9f44630b554bb2c9428b8744338' --compressed Confirm that: You receive a list of course sections including your imscp resource information, the imscp module has a field named "contents" with a list of files. The first file will be a "content" type file, containing the imscp structure in json format. Confirm that you can download any of the html files or images appending ?token=yourtoken to the URL, example: localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/pluginfile.php/235/mod_imscp/content/1/2/index.html?token=1b9cc9f44630b554bb2c9428b8744338 You may use www.jsonlint.com for validate and view the json returned.