Unable to disable Lessons SiteStats

For some added context, this ticket was created initially because the statistics for Lessons back in 2017 within the "Statistics" tool was completely broken.  At that time, there was a Lessons module in Statistics but it never displayed the correct stats, often just 0 activity. The goal was to have an option to completely hide that element of the Statistics tool since instructors could not rely on it back then.  Basically, we wanted to hide it across the entire installation until the underlying problem was fixed.

Thankfully, the Lessons stats now display in Statistics, so the initial reason for the setting has been addressed. For consistency sake, it's great to have the property to turn off the display of Lessons stats in Statistics in the event that an institution wanted to do so.  And it's awesome that the module would be hidden by default if the Lessons tool isn't deployed in a site – makes perfect sense.

So the goals of this ticket have been met. I agree with Curtis that a site-by-site setting made by an instructor or site maintainer would be a new ticket.

According to the description the goal of this issue is to make the lessons section in SiteStats behave like the resources section, that is to say hide it when no lessons tools are in the site or when the property says to.

Allowing the user to hide certain sections from the overview page will require another issue I think, such a feature currently does not exist in SiteStats.

@Curtis Van Osch, Has this issue been fixed? It seems like the user should be able to turn off lessons/resources stats without going into the code or taking all the tools off the site.

Take a look at the previous messages, disabling the Lessons tool in the SiteStats preferences tab does not hide the Lesson tool statistics on the main page.  Only removing all Lesson tools in the site, or setting the new property in the server configuration, will do that. 

This is the same behaviour as for the Ressources tool.

I tested the JIRA on *server* - https://trunk-mysql.nightly.sakaiproject.org/portal/site

                                *Browser* - Chrome , Firefox

 I did uncheck the Lessons tool under preferences but still I can see the Lesson tool statistics. I have attached the snip.

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