As an admin, in Site administration ► General ► Advanced features check: "Enable custom reports" "Enable web services" "Enable web services for mobile devices" Create a Token in the mobile app service for any user on the site (not an admin account) Click on Site administration ► Server ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the user token. You need to replace the $wstoken and the MOODLE_URL of your moodle instance: curl 'MOODLE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=core_webservice_get_site_info&wstoken=$wstoken' --compressed Confirm that in the curl request response, you see the field "advancedfeatures: name = enablecustomreports" and the value set to 1 Now, as admin, disable the global admin setting "enablecustomreports" Execute the same curl request as before Confirm that in the curl request response, you see the field "advancedfeatures: name = enablecustomreports" and the value set to 0