Create a course with a enrolled teacher and student Create a "Q&A" forum As teacher, post there a message Create a Token for the student user: 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, forumid (the forum instance id) and the URL of your moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data --data 'forumid=13&sortby=timemodified&sortdirection=DESC&page=0&perpage=20&wsfunction=mod_forum_get_forum_discussions_paginated&wstoken=ffbe3a3002f235bf9d01fd9369e10b66&moodlewssettingfilter=true' Note: you can append | python -m "json.tool" to see the command output formatted Confirm that You can see the original post details