Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. The Moodle website itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demo Site or read the latest news at Moodle Buzz.

New

• Gray out hidden courses in the new course overview block
• Setting "Always link course sections" should apply consistently in Boost and Clean/More
• "Grade to pass" in the Quiz activity completion settings can only be checked if "Require grade" is also checked
• Bug fix: Backup and restore cause deadlock with sqlsrv driver

Fixed or Improved

• Assignment: when blind marking is enabled, students should receive teacher participant number in the email and not their own
• Calendar export should not export events without duration as full-day events, i.e. assignment due dates have time component that was lost during export
• Bug fix: LTI does not work when activity has a long name
• Assignment: fixed error when viewing attachments of team submission
• MDL-59511, MDL-59746, MDL-59539, MDL-59869 - Multiple fixes in OAuth 2 services (Google, OwnCloud, Nextcloud, etc.)
• My private files should continue working even if some files in filesystem are currently unreadable
• Fixed bug that caused multiple debugging messages in error.log when teachers use assignment grading
• Assignment: changing maximum grade of the module could result in negative grades in assignment which were pushed as "0" to the gradebook. This bug was fixed and will not happen in the future. However, according to Moodle policy, no existing grades were changed. Teachers will see the warning that there are erroneous grades and will be able to fix all of them with one click
• Database module: fixed SQL error when you edit an entry after having added a new picture/file field
• When uploading courses the setting "Completion tracking" should be set to the site default
• Courses made via course request or "Upload course" tool should respect default course sections
• Some third party modules had very big icons in the Default activity completion page
• Grade export of user profile fields can now work with uppercase letters in the fields names
• Performance improvements on the messages page
• Trying to view a forum without the capability may lead you to a broken page.
• Generate calendar event for "Expected completed on" for all modules.
• Forum headers alignment on narrow screens
• Lesson: Fixed bug deleting files unrelated to the pages being deleted
• Assignments: when switching role to student teacher should be able to view group submissions
• Lesson: Restore the behaviour of "No, I just want to go on to the next question"

Security Issues

• A number of security related issues were resolved. Details of these issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.

For Developers

• Hooks into the file API (backport of MDL-57476)