Note: Version number is bumped because a new web service is added into the Mobile app service. Create a course with a student, the course must have at least one section. Access with this student to Moodle (frontpage) and to the course Access to a specific section of a course (course/view.php?id=x&section=2) As a teacher or admin, check that in the Report / Logs you see the "Course viewed" actions for the student user. As admin, enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► External services Create a Token for the user (not admin): Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the student user . You need to replace the wstoken, courseid and the URL of your moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' -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_view_course&wstoken=a70d553bbaf6d9b260a9e5c701b3c46e&sectionnumber=1' --compressed Confirm that You can see new entries in the system/course log (course viewed) for that course and the user. The origin for the new log entries is "ws" If you change courseid to an non-existent course you got an error If you change courseid to a course where you are not enrolled you got an error