As admin, enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► Mobile 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, and the URL of your moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=tool_mobile_get_plugins_supporting_mobile&wstoken=ffbe3a3002f235bf9d01fd9369e10b66' | python -m "json.tool" Confirm that: You see a list of empty warnigns and plugins Now, install in Moodle the local_testservices plugin attached in the issue Run again the CURL request and confirm that You see now a returned plugin with the following information: "plugins": "addon": "remotetest", "component": "local_testservices", "dependencies": [], "filehash": "3959862d33e6bb932d5ce7220175eac546e04141", "filesize": 1373997, "fileurl": "YOUR_MOODLE_URL_/local/testservices/mobile/remotetest.zip", "version": "2016101202" , "addon": "anothertest", "component": "local_testservices", "dependencies": [ "remotetest" ], "filehash": "b0b221e62d11ae4257f3e39626193d2402b4593a", "filesize": 2751301, "fileurl": "YOUR_MOODLE_URL_/local/testservices/mobile/anothertest.zip", "version": "2016101202" , "warnings": []