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by Marie Achour.   Hi everyone, I am very proud to announce the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1! Our latest release builds on the user experience enhancements and features of Moodle LMS 4.0, giving more possibilities to build better learning ... [More] experiences and for learners to find what they want when they need it. As a Long Term Support release, Moodle LMS 4.1 also ensures security support for three years - 18 months more than the standard edition.Community collaborationAs always, our work would not be possible without the support of all of you. Our community contributed 9 new features and 72 improvements to this release. 115 bug fixes that were integrated during the development cycle also came from the community and were applied to 3.9, 3.11, and 4.0 as well.In addition, you have helped us by running QA tests, providing translations and writing documentation. Thank you for your efforts in supporting and improving Moodle, as an open source project, we couldn’t do this without you! A smoother experience with UX enhancementsIn the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1 UX improvements have been made to Database activity, including a useful start page, an improved Image gallery preset, plus three new presets: Journal, Proposals and Resources, which can be previewed. These four ready-made presets mean that you can use and adapt one of the four on offer to fit your needs, without having to build a layout from nothing. The presets can also be previewed before use so that you can be sure it is the layout you are looking for. These UX improvements have been supported by the Moodle Users Association.  Caption: Moodle LMS 4.1 comes with four presets to use as a starting point. UX improvements have also been made to the Gradebook to make it easier to navigate. With Moodle LMS 4.1, a new ‘Grades summary’ page has been added to provide a summary of the grade averages for each course activity and can be filtered by activity. There is an improved ‘User report’ with a more modern design and collapsible categories, and a ‘Single view report’ with improved design and the ability to simply search by user, group or grade item, and more easily do bulk actions. This allows teachers and trainers to more easily analyse the success of formative and summative assessments and inform improvements to course design. Caption: The new ‘Grades summary’ page provides a summary of the grade averages for each course activity. Maximising the use of BigBlueButton Moodle LMS 4.1 also includes improvements to BigBlueButton, the open source virtual classroom integrated into Moodle as a standard feature, including the ability to invite external guests to a BigBlueButton video conferencing session.  Improving the text editor In Moodle LMS 4.1, TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional text editor, alongside the standard Atto editor. TinyMCE 6 is a modern and intuitive text editor that is accessible and offers an improved user experience.  Caption: TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional editor alongside the standard Atto editor. Manage and collaborate with ease using the Moodle Question bank  Moodle LMS 4.1 features improvements to the Question bank features, making it easier for teachers and course creators to manage and collaborate on quiz questions. These improvements include inline editing of the question title, a new “Modified by” column to see who modified a question, and a new “Last used” column to see when a question was last attempted by a student.    More control over custom report settings Custom reports now include a number of new useful report sources, including Badges, Comments, Notes, Course participants, Blogs, and Files. There is a new custom report settings page, allowing the admin to limit the number of reports and disable live editing. Other key improvements More helpful additions in the Moodle LMS 4.1 release include: Profiles can now display the user’s timezone. The grading scale can now have additional letters, going beyond the previous limit of fourteen. Completion reports include custom profile fields and the time of completion.  A new admin setting to control the availability of the “Contact site support” form. Find out more about Moodle LMS 4.1 and watch our short videos on Database activity, the Gradebook and Customer reports. Database activity Gradebook Custom reports Enjoy! Marie [Less]

by Marie Achour.   Hi everyone, I am very proud to announce the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1! Our latest release builds on the user experience enhancements and features of Moodle LMS 4.0, giving more possibilities to build better learning ... [More] experiences and for learners to find what they want when they need it. As a Long Term Support release, Moodle LMS 4.1 also ensures security support for three years - 18 months more than the standard edition.Community collaborationAs always, our work would not be possible without the support of all of you. Our community contributed 9 new features and 72 improvements to this release. 115 bug fixes that were integrated during the development cycle also came from the community and were applied to 3.9, 3.11, and 4.0 as well.In addition, you have helped us by running QA tests, providing translations and writing documentation. Thank you for your efforts in supporting and improving Moodle, as an open source project, we couldn’t do this without you! A smoother experience with UX enhancementsIn the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1 UX improvements have been made to Database activity, including a useful start page, an improved Image gallery preset, plus three new presets: Journal, Proposals and Resources, which can be previewed. These four ready-made presets mean that you can use and adapt one of the four on offer to fit your needs, without having to build a layout from nothing. The presets can also be previewed before use so that you can be sure it is the layout you are looking for. These UX improvements have been supported by the Moodle Users Association.  Caption: Moodle LMS 4.1 comes with four presets to use as a starting point. UX improvements have also been made to the Gradebook to make it easier to navigate. With Moodle LMS 4.1, a new ‘Grades summary’ page has been added to provide a summary of the grade averages for each course activity and can be filtered by activity. There is an improved ‘User report’ with a more modern design and collapsible categories, and a ‘Single view report’ with improved design and the ability to simply search by user, group or grade item, and more easily do bulk actions. This allows teachers and trainers to more easily analyse the success of formative and summative assessments and inform improvements to course design. Caption: The new ‘Grades summary’ page provides a summary of the grade averages for each course activity. Maximising the use of BigBlueButton Moodle LMS 4.1 also includes improvements to BigBlueButton, the open source virtual classroom integrated into Moodle as a standard feature, including the ability to invite external guests to a BigBlueButton video conferencing session.  Improving the text editor In Moodle LMS 4.1, TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional text editor, alongside the standard Atto editor. TinyMCE 6 is a modern and intuitive text editor that is accessible and offers an improved user experience.  Caption: TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional editor alongside the standard Atto editor. Manage and collaborate with ease using the Moodle Question bank  Moodle LMS 4.1 features improvements to the Question bank features, making it easier for teachers and course creators to manage and collaborate on quiz questions. These improvements include inline editing of the question title, a new “Modified by” column to see who modified a question, and a new “Last used” column to see when a question was last attempted by a student.    More control over custom report settings Custom reports now include a number of new useful report sources, including Badges, Comments, Notes, Course participants, Blogs, and Files. There is a new custom report settings page, allowing the admin to limit the number of reports and disable live editing. Other key improvements More helpful additions in the Moodle LMS 4.1 release include: Profiles can now display the user’s timezone. The grading scale can now have additional letters, going beyond the previous limit of fourteen. Completion reports include custom profile fields and the time of completion.  A new admin setting to control the availability of the “Contact site support” form. Find out more about Moodle LMS 4.1 and watch our short videos on Database activity, the Gradebook and Customer reports. Database activity Gradebook Custom reports Enjoy! Marie [Less]

by Marie Achour.   Hi everyone, I am very proud to announce the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1! Our latest release builds on the user experience enhancements and features of Moodle LMS 4.0, giving more possibilities to build better learning ... [More] experiences and for learners to find what they want when they need it. As a Long Term Support release, Moodle LMS 4.1 also ensures security support for three years - 18 months more than the standard edition.Community collaborationAs always, our work would not be possible without the support of all of you. Our community contributed 9 new features and 72 improvements to this release. 115 bug fixes that were integrated during the development cycle also came from the community and were applied to 3.9, 3.11, and 4.0 as well.In addition, you have helped us by running QA tests, providing translations and writing documentation. Thank you for your efforts in supporting and improving Moodle, as an open source project, we couldn’t do this without you! A smoother experience with UX enhancementsIn the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1 UX improvements have been made to Database activity, including a useful start page, an improved Image gallery preset, plus three new presets: Journal, Proposals and Resources, which can be previewed. These four ready-made presets mean that you can use and adapt one of the four on offer to fit your needs, without having to build a layout from nothing. The presets can also be previewed before use so that you can be sure it is the layout you are looking for. These UX improvements have been supported by the Moodle Users Association.  Caption: Moodle LMS 4.1 comes with four presets to use as a starting point. UX improvements have also been made to the Gradebook to make it easier to navigate. With Moodle LMS 4.1, a new ‘Grades summary’ page has been added to provide a summary of the grade averages for each course activity and can be filtered by activity. There is an improved ‘User report’ with a more modern design and collapsible categories, and a ‘Single view report’ with improved design and the ability to simply search by user, group or grade item, and more easily do bulk actions. This allows teachers and trainers to more easily analyse the success of formative and summative assessments and inform improvements to course design. Caption: The new ‘Grades summary’ page provides a summary of the grade averages for each course activity. Maximising the use of BigBlueButton Moodle LMS 4.1 also includes improvements to BigBlueButton, the open source virtual classroom integrated into Moodle as a standard feature, including the ability to invite external guests to a BigBlueButton video conferencing session.  Improving the text editor In Moodle LMS 4.1, TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional text editor, alongside the standard Atto editor. TinyMCE 6 is a modern and intuitive text editor that is accessible and offers an improved user experience.  Caption: TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional editor alongside the standard Atto editor. Manage and collaborate with ease using the Moodle Question bank  Moodle LMS 4.1 features improvements to the Question bank features, making it easier for teachers and course creators to manage and collaborate on quiz questions. These improvements include inline editing of the question title, a new “Modified by” column to see who modified a question, and a new “Last used” column to see when a question was last attempted by a student.    More control over custom report settings Custom reports now include a number of new useful report sources, including Badges, Comments, Notes, Course participants, Blogs, and Files. There is a new custom report settings page, allowing the admin to limit the number of reports and disable live editing. Other key improvements More helpful additions in the Moodle LMS 4.1 release include: Profiles can now display the user’s timezone. The grading scale can now have additional letters, going beyond the previous limit of fourteen. Completion reports include custom profile fields and the time of completion.  A new admin setting to control the availability of the “Contact site support” form. Find out more about Moodle LMS 4.1 and watch our short videos on Database activity, the Gradebook and Customer reports. Database activity Gradebook Custom reports Enjoy! Marie [Less]

by Marie Achour.   Hi everyone, I am very proud to announce the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1! Our latest release builds on the user experience enhancements and features of Moodle LMS 4.0, giving more possibilities to build better learning ... [More] experiences and for learners to find what they want when they need it. As a Long Term Support release, Moodle LMS 4.1 also ensures security support for three years - 18 months more than the standard edition.Community collaborationAs always, our work would not be possible without the support of all of you. Our community contributed 9 new features and 72 improvements to this release. 115 bug fixes that were integrated during the development cycle also came from the community and were applied to 3.9, 3.11, and 4.0 as well.In addition, you have helped us by running QA tests, providing translations and writing documentation. Thank you for your efforts in supporting and improving Moodle, as an open source project, we couldn’t do this without you! A smoother experience with UX enhancementsIn the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1 UX improvements have been made to Database activity, including a useful start page, an improved Image gallery preset, plus three new presets: Journal, Proposals and Resources, which can be previewed. These four ready-made presets mean that you can use and adapt one of the four on offer to fit your needs, without having to build a layout from nothing. The presets can also be previewed before use so that you can be sure it is the layout you are looking for. These UX improvements have been supported by the Moodle Users Association.  Caption: Moodle LMS 4.1 comes with four presets to use as a starting point. UX improvements have also been made to the Gradebook to make it easier to navigate. With Moodle LMS 4.1, a new ‘Grades summary’ page has been added to provide a summary of the grade averages for each course activity and can be filtered by activity. There is an improved ‘User report’ with a more modern design and collapsible categories, and a ‘Single view report’ with improved design and the ability to simply search by user, group or grade item, and more easily do bulk actions. This allows teachers and trainers to more easily analyse the success of formative and summative assessments and inform improvements to course design. Caption: The new ‘Grades summary’ page provides a summary of the grade averages for each course activity. Maximising the use of BigBlueButton Moodle LMS 4.1 also includes improvements to BigBlueButton, the open source virtual classroom integrated into Moodle as a standard feature, including the ability to invite external guests to a BigBlueButton video conferencing session.  Improving the text editor In Moodle LMS 4.1, TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional text editor, alongside the standard Atto editor. TinyMCE 6 is a modern and intuitive text editor that is accessible and offers an improved user experience.  Caption: TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional editor alongside the standard Atto editor. Manage and collaborate with ease using the Moodle Question bank  Moodle LMS 4.1 features improvements to the Question bank features, making it easier for teachers and course creators to manage and collaborate on quiz questions. These improvements include inline editing of the question title, a new “Modified by” column to see who modified a question, and a new “Last used” column to see when a question was last attempted by a student.    More control over custom report settings Custom reports now include a number of new useful report sources, including Badges, Comments, Notes, Course participants, Blogs, and Files. There is a new custom report settings page, allowing the admin to limit the number of reports and disable live editing. Other key improvements More helpful additions in the Moodle LMS 4.1 release include: Profiles can now display the user’s timezone. The grading scale can now have additional letters, going beyond the previous limit of fourteen. Completion reports include custom profile fields and the time of completion.  A new admin setting to control the availability of the “Contact site support” form. Find out more about Moodle LMS 4.1 and watch our short videos on Database activity, the Gradebook and Customer reports. Database activity Gradebook Custom reports Enjoy! Marie [Less]

by Marie Achour.   Hi everyone, I am very proud to announce the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1! Our latest release builds on the user experience enhancements and features of Moodle LMS 4.0, giving more possibilities to build better learning ... [More] experiences and for learners to find what they want when they need it. As a Long Term Support release, Moodle LMS 4.1 also ensures security support for three years - 18 months more than the standard edition.Community collaborationAs always, our work would not be possible without the support of all of you. Our community contributed 9 new features and 76 improvements to this release. 132 bug fixes that were integrated during the development cycle also came from the community and were applied to 3.9, 3.11, and 4.0 as well.In addition, you have helped us by running QA tests, providing translations and writing documentation. Thank you for your efforts in supporting and improving Moodle, as an open source project, we couldn’t do this without you! A smoother experience with UX enhancementsIn the latest release of Moodle LMS 4.1 UX improvements have been made to Database activity, including a useful start page, an improved Image gallery preset, plus three new presets: Journal, Proposals and Resources, which can be previewed. These four ready-made presets mean that you can use and adapt one of the four on offer to fit your needs, without having to build a layout from nothing. The presets can also be previewed before use so that you can be sure it is the layout you are looking for. These UX improvements have been supported by the Moodle Users Association.  Caption: Moodle LMS 4.1 comes with four presets to use as a starting point. UX improvements have also been made to the Gradebook to make it easier to navigate. With Moodle LMS 4.1, a new ‘Grades summary’ page has been added to provide a summary of the grade averages for each course activity and can be filtered by activity. There is an improved ‘User report’ with a more modern design and collapsible categories, and a ‘Single view report’ with improved design and the ability to simply search by user, group or grade item, and more easily do bulk actions. This allows teachers and trainers to more easily analyse the success of formative and summative assessments and inform improvements to course design. Caption: The new ‘Grades summary’ page provides a summary of the grade averages for each course activity. Maximising the use of BigBlueButton Moodle LMS 4.1 also includes improvements to BigBlueButton, the open source virtual classroom integrated into Moodle as a standard feature, including the ability to invite external guests to a BigBlueButton video conferencing session.  Improving the text editor In Moodle LMS 4.1, TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional text editor, alongside the standard Atto editor. TinyMCE 6 is a modern and intuitive text editor that is accessible and offers an improved user experience.  Caption: TinyMCE 6 is included as an additional editor alongside the standard Atto editor. Manage and collaborate with ease using the Moodle Question bank  Moodle LMS 4.1 features improvements to the Question bank features, making it easier for teachers and course creators to manage and collaborate on quiz questions. These improvements include inline editing of the question title, a new “Modified by” column to see who modified a question, and a new “Last used” column to see when a question was last attempted by a student.    More control over custom report settings Custom reports now include a number of new useful report sources, including Badges, Comments, Notes, Course participants, Blogs, and Files. There is a new custom report settings page, allowing the admin to limit the number of reports and disable live editing. Other key improvements More helpful additions in the Moodle LMS 4.1 release include: Profiles can now display the user’s timezone. The grading scale can now have additional letters, going beyond the previous limit of fourteen. Completion reports include custom profile fields and the time of completion.  A new admin setting to control the availability of the “Contact site support” form. Find out more about Moodle LMS 4.1 and watch our short videos on Database activity, the Gradebook and Customer reports. Database activity Gradebook Custom reports Enjoy! Marie [Less]

by Simey Lameze.  Hi allThanks to all our Quality Assurance (QA) testers, who helped us achieve a Moodle 4.1 test pass rate of 100%! 👏 👏That was an amazing team effort so a big thank you to everyone that has helped in any way with the success of ... [More] another QA cycle! 💪Those who completed 3 or more tests will receive a Moodle tester badge 🏅 in recognition of their efforts. Also a special thanks to all our core developers, who helped with fixing bugs identified through testing, so that tests could be reset and run again. We are now ready for Moodle 4.1 to be released on Monday 28th of November of 2022.Simey [Less]

by Simey Lameze.  Hi allThanks to all of our Quality Assurance (QA) testers, who helped us with testing 615 test and fully completing our QA cycle! 👏 👏That was an amazing team effort so a big thank you to everyone that has helped in any way with the ... [More] success of another QA cycle! 💪Those who completed 3 or more tests will receive a Moodle tester badge 🏅 in recognition of their efforts. Also a special thanks to all our core developers, who helped with fixing bugs identified through testing, so that tests could be reset and run again. We are now ready for Moodle 4.1 to be released on Monday 28th of November of 2022.Simey [Less]

by Sandra Matz.  Please join us for the Moodle Academy "MoodleNet for Developers" webinar on Wednesday 30 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 UTC.In this webinar you will learn how to develop MoodleNet packages and contribute to the MoodleNet community.The ... [More] webinar is suitable for any developers interested in learning how to develop MoodleNet packages and it’s expected that attendees will already know Javascript, React, NodeJs and Typescript is warmly recommended. It is also good to have experience in Arango DB.Register at Moodle Academy. [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Welcome to our second edition of Showcase Shorts. We held our first Maintenance & Planning Sprint at the end of October. Maintenance & Planning Sprints are dedicated to making time to do some of the ... [More] tasks one never quite finds time to do during feature development sprints but that are essential to maintaining a clean code base! We are also currently in code freeze for Moodle LMS 4.1 and actively working through our QA cycle. We are always keen for help with this process so if you’d like to get involved, please do! For these reasons, we don’t have a lot of new development to share with you in this edition of Showcase Shorts but there is still a ton of work going on, particularly on integrations.[video] We also used this time to prepare for the start of our next development cycle (12 weeks) by engaging with stakeholders, reviewing our backlogs and confirming our priorities for the increment ahead. For a sneak peak into this process, take a look at:1) How we engage with our Partners to prioritise our development of Moodle Workplace. [video] 2) Some of the scoping and design activities we completed in preparation for Moodle LMS 4.2.[video]3) An overview of the planning sessions we held to prepare for our next phase of development on MoodleCloud.[video] We also used the sprint to progress some of our research initiatives. Our LMS Messaging research findings have been shared on the UX Community Forum. If you didn’t see the post, please check it out now. And we started processing the results from our annual MoodleCloud Market Research activity, with some interesting findings coming through about the type of users who use our product.[video]We also made great progress towards the release of the Developer Edition of MoodleNet later this year.[video] But the big news for this sprint was that we were getting ready to launch our new look moodle.org which we really hope you are enjoying. We thought you might like taking a little look at the final steps we took to get to this point.[video]We hope you enjoyed this quick update. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Welcome to our second edition of Showcase Shorts. We held our first Maintenance & Planning Sprint at the end of October. Maintenance & Planning Sprints are dedicated to making time to do some of the ... [More] tasks one never quite finds time to do during feature development sprints but that are essential to maintaining a clean code base! We are also currently in code freeze for Moodle LMS 4.1 and actively working through our QA cycle. We are always keen for help with this process so if you’d like to get involved, please do! For these reasons, we don’t have a lot of new development to share with you in this edition of Showcase Shorts but there is still a ton of work going on, particularly on integrations.[video] We also used this time to prepare for the start of our next development cycle (12 weeks) by engaging with stakeholders, reviewing our backlogs and confirming our priorities for the increment ahead. For a sneak peak into this process, take a look at:1) How we engage with our Partners to prioritise our development of Moodle Workplace. [video] 2) Some of the scoping and design activities we completed in preparation for Moodle LMS 4.2.[video]3) An overview of the planning sessions we held to prepare for our next phase of development on MoodleCloud.[video] We also used the sprint to progress some of our research initiatives. Our LMS Messaging research findings have been shared on the UX Community Forum. If you didn’t see the post, please check it out now. And we started processing the results from our annual MoodleCloud Market Research activity, with some interesting findings coming through about the type of users who use our product.[video]We also made great progress towards the release of the Developer Edition of MoodleNet later this year.[video] But the big news for this sprint was that we were getting ready to launch our new look moodle.org which we really hope you are enjoying. We thought you might like taking a little look at the final steps we took to get to this point.[video]We hope you enjoyed this quick update. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]