Introduction

This page serves to log almost all the changes within the platform. Over 90% of the changes will have no impact to your learners and will not affect the way that courses or modules track. Some members ask for a full list of changes, here we have compiled as many as we could identify from Moodle's change log and our own changes. The key changes have been identified and added to the highlights section above.

Highlights

New custom report building tool.
- Majorly enhanced with Scheduling, Hierarchies and multiple data sources.
Real time updates for course completions.
Learning Pathways appear in Calendar & Timeline.
Boost Side Menu removed & Home/Dashboard moved to top bar.
Boost Preview theme added to aid testing theme customisations.
Improved UX and Simplified Navigation.
Renewals introduced to Learning Pathways.

Detailed Change Log

Moodle

Browser Support

Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported.
Safari 7 (2013) and below has known compatibility issues

Report Builder

Introduced Moodle’s new custom report building tool.
Enabled Scheduled Sending of reports.
Added CLC Hierarchies functionality for non administrator users.
Added CLC Custom Sources:
- SCORM, SCORM Attempts
- Quiz, Quiz Attempts
- Learning Pathways, Learning Pathways Completions
- Course Completions
- Face to Face sessions, Face to Face bookings
- Learning Data Store Entries.

Course Completions

For activity completion based course completions they are now updated in real time and do not exclusively rely on the scheduled task. This enables faster reflection of course completion.

Config Settings

Similarly to other cloud environments several settings have been locked and dynamically set for each platform. This automates a lot of configurations which can allow your platform to run faster and more stable.

Cache Stores

These are now dynamically loaded directly from the server, completely removing any downtime between changing caches and resolves a longstanding bug where the cache configuration can be reset.

Calendar

Calendar month view now available & default.
Added a current date indicator.
Responsivity improvements.
Calendar export function (to import to external calendar or subscribe with URL).
Removed 3 month calendar view.
Added Learning Pathways Start, Due and End dates to the Calendar.

Timeline

Improved layout and usability.
Course filter now only shows courses with events within.
Text search added to timeline block.
Pagination removed with ‘show more’ lazy loading introduced.
Added Learning Pathways Start, Due and End dates to the timeline block.
Improved overdue flag for overdue items.

Site Home & Dashboard.

Site home has now become more prominent in the primary navigation.
Dashboard has been designed to be more focused on giving an overview of mandatory actions.
Dashboard can now be disabled. (Appearance -> Navigation).
Dashboard displays a title & welcome back message.
Introduced my/courses.php (Courses) to better separate available courses/your courses from the dashboard content.

Navigation & UX

Redesigned login page. (Standard login, not RoadMap login).
Updated activity icons.
Various confirmation pages have been turned into modals.
Moved footer to new location from main page into (?) modal.
Accessibility improvements.
Removed left hand navigation.
Calendar link moved to the user menu.
Primary navigation menu & custom navigation have been merged in the top bar.
Next & previous activity links from all activities have been removed.
Removed section navigation on one section per page (MDL-72736)
Turn on editing button has been moved into the navbar.
Show user initials as a placeholder when a profile picture is not set.
“Contact site support” is now a form instead of a mailto link.
Link names within Atto editor have been handled better.
Dialogues now have the action button moved to the right.
Notification page has been improved/simplified.
Back to top link has been removed to support the new footer location.
Topics Course Format (The default format)

The Topics course format now by default allows for topics to be collapsed.

User Tours

Tours now use the Atto text editor.
Simplified design of user tours.
Added new default user tours.

LTI Tool

Updated to support LTI 1.3.

HTML Block

Renamed to Text Block to make it easier to understand.

Browse list of users

New filter for date of user account creation.
Allow admins to modify the page width using SCSS.

Security

Notifications are now generated when a user logs in from a new device.
New password forms have an autocomplete new-password set.

Accessibility

Removed Online/Offline options for notifications.
Indicate when a user has entered an editor.
Screen reader helper button has been moved to the first row.
HTML tables are now responsive.
Improved navigation structure.
Improve accessibility of profile images.
Make it possible to style toast notifications.

Web Services

XMLRPC is no longer supported by PHP and will be deprecated in future versions.

Plugins

Admin Tools

Certificate
- Various bug fixes and UX improvements.
Forced Cache
- This plugin has been introduced to automate cache configuration which enables faster response to infrastructure changes and resolves a long term issue where the cache configuration could be reset.
Learning Data Store
- Added Privacy API to support export & deletion of user data for GDPR.
MFA
- Various bug fixes.
- UX improvements.
- Introduced grace factors. (#328)
- Token scope matches session cookie scope.
- Add ability to embed files in the guide section.
My Team
- Several bug fixes and minor styling amendments.
Learning Pathways
- Pathway allocations now appear in the Timeline & Calendar.
- Added Privacy API to export or delete users data to support GDPR.
- Grammar corrections for default notifications.
- Learning Pathways can now renew periodically. (every [x] Weeks, Months, Years)

Authentication

OIDC
- Added support for Single Sign Out from Microsoft to Moodle.
- Rename Office 365 to Microsoft 365.
- Various bug fixes.
- Force apply mapping for email profile field.
- Redirect to SSO logout URL for auth_oidc connected users.
- Improvements to sync matching & debugging.
SAML2
- Various bug fixes.
- Handle case insensitive for core user fields.
- Add SP metadata update callback to more settings.
- Improved debugging for test pages.
- Better handling of Single Sign Out.
UserKey
- Various bug fixes.
- Added Privacy API to better handle GDPR tools.
- Automatically confirm newly created accounts.

Blocks

Accessibility
- Various bug fixes.
Anders Pink
- Removed from Moodle 4.0 due to no usage.
Freshdesk SSO (CLC Helpdesk Plugin)
- Need Help & Contact buttons now appear for administrators in additional locations such as Site Administration, Site Home, Courses and other pages.
- Contact button opens in new tab.
Learning Pathways
- UX updated to match Moodle’s styling.
- Improvements in accessibility via keyboard.
- Pathway allocations now appear in the Timeline & Calendar.
RoadMap
- Complete new UX inline with Moodle’s styling, allowing better accessibility via keyboard, smaller screens and a faster, more dynamic way of ‘lazy loading’ courses.
- Added Search to RoadMap which will allow a learner to search through all available courses to them within RoadMap (respecting privacy in conditional course/sections) allowing content targeted for specific viewers to only be searched for by specific viewers.
- Added ‘Conditional Course Sections’ intended to replace course dispatcher. This allows administrators to create sections for specific groups of users and display multiple courses per rule. This will make it much faster and easier to manage conditional courses within RoadMap.
- Allow Direct Access added to sections, enabling specific sections to be linked (or not be linked) directly to, which improves security. This will default to yes for existing sections.
- Removed ‘Mandatory’ flag. RoadMap no longer enrolls learners into sections. Learning Pathways has replaced this feature over.
- Manage layout now supports drag and drop reordering.
- Manage layout now shows a confirm modal before deleting a section.
- ‘Default image’ has been removed and replaced by automatically generating images from course card colours which match Moodle Course cards and Learning Pathways.

Course Format

Buttons
- This has not been updated in 2 years and may need to be removed in future versions of Moodle unless the developer updates it.
Tiles
- Updates to use Moodle 4.0 renderers.
- Various bug fixes.
- Improved modal usage.
- Allow special chars in the module title.
Topic Collapse
- Updates to use Moodle 4.0 renderers.
- Various bug fixes.
- May be deprecated in future versions due to overlap with Moodle core ‘topics’ format.

Local

Abintegro
- Removed due to not being used.
Recompletion
- Various bug fixes.
- Improvements with handling LTI tools.
- Completion date settings page simplified.
Redislock
- TTL set for Redis entries.
Pages
- Various bug fixes.
- Updated to work with Moodle 4.0 changes.

Modules

Certificate
- Known as “Legacy Certificate” this plugin is scheduled for removal 12 months after the Moodle 4.0 release.
Checklist
- Various bug fixes.
- Improve UX for embedded views.
- Updated icon for Moodle 4.0.
- Student comments: UX improvements.
- Reset Report only appears when required.
Course Certificate
- Various bug fixes.
- Certificates are now archived on course reset.
- Added helpers for settings and modals.
- Prevented race condition issuing certificate multiple times.
- New activity icon.
Custom Certificate
- Adding relative expiry date options.
- Respect multiple languages in manage templates.
- Course name field can now display full name or short name.
Facetoface
- Various bug fixes.
- UX & highlighting improvements.
- New activity icon.
- Rich text editor now has a confirmation message.
- Added ability to download list of attendees for single session.
- Automatically enroll users who are not enrolled using manual enrolments.
- Added GDPR function support with Privacy API.
Quiz
- Added default options when creating a question.
- Display pass grade on quiz front page.
- Improvements to manual grading.
- Quiz review: name the person who made changes in the question response.
- New plugin type - Qbank.
- Updates to question bank.
- Add question versioning.
- Introduced bulk actions to the question bank.
- Log editing quizzes in detail.
- Update UI/UX to question status.
Reengagement
- Various bug fixes.
- New activity icon.
- Increased alert time.
- Added filter support for subject and contents of email.
- Improved participants table.
People’s Alchemy
- Removed from Moodle 4.0 due to no usage.
Scheduler
- Various bug fixes.
Turnintooltwo
- Various bug fixes.

Plagiarism

Turnitin
- Various bug fixes.
- Improvements to handling essay quiz sections.
- Removed ETS Branding.
- Allow grades to be removed if they have been removed in TFS.

Report

Report Builder (CLC/Totara)
- Renamed to ‘Legacy Reports’ to differentiate from Moodle’s new Reporting tool.
- It is intended in the next 12 months to restrict this plugin to ‘read only’ allowing plenty of time for reporting to be adopted by the new superior reporting tool.
RoadMap Transcript
- Added Learning Pathways source.

Theme

Boost
- New login page layout.
- Ability to set login page background within Boost settings.
- User initials as profile picture placeholder.
- Removal of ‘back to top’ link.
- Styling changes: rounded edges will be used for UI elements. Page header and borders are removed.
- New layout, Boost now uses drawers layout for course index and blocks.
- Removed left hand navigation menu.
- Top bar navigation has additional values by default.
Boost Preview
- Introduced a clone of the boost theme called boost preview. This is intended for an administrator to use to test their custom CSS without affecting normal users.
- This theme has a warning banner forced at the top of each page to ensure it is used for testing only.