Web coverage

This page lists what each platform’s web UI offers, split into what its CLI covers, partially covers, and doesn’t cover at all — use it to decide whether a task still needs a browser.

Coverage below is as of the versions this site documents: moodle-cli 0.9.2, edstem-cli 0.7.0, ontrack 0.3.2. A platform’s web UI moves independently of these CLIs; recheck this page against a new release before relying on a gap being closed.

Moodle

Covered
Partially covered
Not covered

Enrolled units, with section browsing — units, activities
Deadlines and the calendar’s actionable timeline — due, todo
Grades and feedback — grades
Announcements (forum-type posts) — news
Forum discussion reading and search — threads, forums
Resource, folder and assignment file download — download, get
Assignment file submission, draft or final — submit
Notification and unread message counts — alerts
Opening a unit or activity in the browser from a reference — open

Search: find ranks sections, activities and discussion subjects against a query, but it’s a heuristic match over what the CLI has already fetched, not Moodle’s own global search index — it won’t find text inside a page’s body the way Moodle’s site-wide search can.
Forums: reading and searching discussions is covered; there’s no way to reply, edit, or delete a post from the CLI.
Folder downloads: a folder activity exposes its individual files so you can choose which to save, but there’s no single “download everything in this unit” command.

Write side: only submit changes anything on Moodle. Everything else in this CLI is read-only.

Ed Discussion

Covered
Partially covered
Not covered

Enrolled units — units
Thread listing, search, and reading — threads
Posting a new thread or a reply — threads send, replies send
Lesson content, including slides — lessons, slides show, slides read
Quiz slide answers — slides submit
Marking lessons and slides read — lessons mark-read
Ed-hosted file listing and download, from lessons or threads — files
Your own recent activity — activity

Posting: creating threads and replies is covered, with --private and --anonymous flags; editing or deleting a post you already sent is not — Ed’s own editing window has no CLI equivalent.
Thread categorization: you can set --category/--type when posting, but there’s no way to move, pin, or lock an existing thread.

Write side: threads send, replies send, lessons mark-read, slides submit. Posting is additionally gated behind EDSTEM_ALLOW_POSTING/MCP_ALLOW_POSTING on the MCP (Model Context Protocol) surfaces — see Mutations.

OnTrack

Covered
Partially covered
Not covered

Enrolled units — units
Tasks, their status and due dates — tasks list
A task sheet, converted to Markdown from its source PDF — tasks read
Task and whole-unit resource downloads — tasks get, units get
Task workflow state (self-reported: not started, working on it, need help) — tasks set
Task file submission — tasks submit
Task chat history and sending a message — chats read, chats send
Teaching roles you hold — roles

Task chat: you can read history and send a plain-text message with chats send --message; there’s no way to attach a file to a chat message the way the OnTrack web UI allows.
Task submission: uploading files for a task is covered; requesting or granting an extension is not.

Write side: tasks set, tasks submit, chats send, chats mark-read, and chats read as a side effect of fetching history — see Mutations for why reading chat history counts as a write here.

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