Preventing students from viewing each others profile in Moodle

Sometimes you need your students to not interact with each other in a course or you may have students from different organisations accessing a course and you want to restrict them from seeing each others information.
Let's see what we can do to restrict students from seeing each others profile and also from communicating with each other using the messaging tools.

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Favourite Moodle themes
Edwiser REMUI - https://ricoshae.com.au/edwiser-239i
Adaptable - https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_adap...
Moove - https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_moove

Plugins
Edwiser - Rapid Grader- https://ricoshae.com.au/kd8h

Design software
Affinity Designer 2 - https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/desi...
Affinity Photo 2 - https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

Screen capture software
Screen flow by Telestream - https://ricoshae.com.au/i7m4

Most used online services
Canva - Design application - https://ricoshae.com.au/x6fa
Free pix - Photos and vector images - https://ricoshae.com.au/3ro0

Tech that I use
Laptop - MacBook pro - https://ricoshae.com.au/a-esth
Monitor - Dell U2720Q UltraSharp USB-C 27 Inch 4K UHD (3840x2160) Monitor - https://ricoshae.com.au/a-ccud
Microphone - Rode NT USB - https://ricoshae.com.au/a-adkf
Microphone - Shure MV7X XLR - https://ricoshae.com.au/a-bxcg
Audio interface - Claret 8 Pre - https://ricoshae.com.au/a-58d7
Camera - Sony a33600 - https://ricoshae.com.au/a-iaag

Programming tools
Sublime Text - https://ricoshae.com.au/b8m3
Github - https://ricoshae.com.au/2oe5