Moodle Releases 2023

Upgrade

• UNSWSRV-558 Upgrade to Moodle 4.1
  Upgraded from Moodle version 3.11 to version 4.1

Further information about Moodle 4.1 is available at https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/moodle-upgrade

Bug

• UNSWSRV-799 Security backports from 4.0.12
  Affects System - Applies important security patches from Moodle Headquarters.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-735 Security backports from 4.0.11
  Affects System - Applies important security patches from Moodle Headquarters.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-718 Apply BASE-4863: local_logshipper: Improve error handling in azure shipper
  Affects System - Improves error handling when shipping the Moodle log files to Azure blob storage.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-556 themeunswonline: UNSW online theme V2023081500
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Online theme to version 2023081500.

• UNSWSRV-499 grades: Implement custom message when Course formula is broken
  Affects Staff - Displays a message informing Instructors that the formula in the Gradebook is broken when an activity used in a calculation is deleted.

Task

• UNSWSRV-690 Apply BASE-4854: locallogshipper: Fix catch in azure auth
  Affects System - Sends an email to the mailing list when the Azure details details are invalid or expired when sending the Moodle logs to UNSW.

• UNSWSRV-524 scheduledtask: Allow Astra flags for new CLI Scheduled task script
  Affects System - Updates the flags option for the new CLI Scheduled task script when sending grades to Astra.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-696 localblackboard: Add configuration to enable and update quiz overdue attempts date limit
  Affects Staff/Students - Adds a date field and set to 4 September 2023 to submit draft quiz attempts at the set end date of the Quiz.

• UNSWSRV-692 gradingformrubric: Fixes issue of additional feedback field appearing when not enabled
  Affects Staff - Ensures the 'Additional feedback’ field appears in the rubric only when the setting is enabled.

• UNSWSRV-553 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-548 themeremui: RemUI Customisation September 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to September 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-547 themeremui: RemUI Customisation : MEP-425: AIDE iframe embed
  Affects System - Embeds the AIDE ChatBot to the block drawer in every Moodle course.

• UNSWSRV-542 localo365: Force ID number set on login or account creation
  Affects System - Ensures the ID number in the user profile is set to be the same as the Username (zID) upon login or account creation.

New Feature

• UNSWSRV-552 Apply and enable BASE-4848: Add TurningPoint Integration plugin modturningptintegration
  Affects Staff/Students - Enables the EchoPoll plugin for a trial in Term 3, 2023.

• UNSWSRV-400 gradingrubric: Enable the export/import of rubrics created in Moodle assignment
  Affects Staff - Enables Instructor export/import rubrics created in Assignment. Additional information on this functionality is available at https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-41296.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-555 Security backports from 4.0.10
  Affects System - Applies important security patches from Moodle Headquarters.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-532 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation August 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to August 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-533 local_teameval: Fix issue with Release of Marks in Team Evaluation
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures calculated grades for group Assignment with Team Evaluation and release of marks enabled are displayed in the Gradebook.

• UNSWSRV-541 format_remuiformat: RemUI Course Format Customisation August 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme course format to August 2023 version.

Task

• UNSWSRV-498 config: Allow indentation on course page for topics and weekly formats
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructors can indent activities and resources on course page for Topics format and Weekly format.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-525 lang: Update language strings for mod_workshep
  Affects Staff/Students - Updates all references to Workshop activity to Workshop (UNSW).

• UNSWSRV-535 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.11
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version 9.0.11.

• UNSWSRV-538 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-539 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra Theme V9.0.11
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version 9.0.11.

• UNSWSRV-540 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.11
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version 9.0.11.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-528 nss: Improve sync of SIMS Data
  Affects System - Updates existing code to synchronise Moodle course content with the files exported from SiMs.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-527 nss: create_courses: Fix various course templating issues
  Affects System - Applies course template automatically as part of course creation process.

• UNSWSRV-529 nss: create_courses: Remove whitelist feature in course creation process
  Affects System - Removes the whitelist feature email in course creation process.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-497 Apply BASE-4760: qtype_stack: Fixing adding additional PRT to existing question
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can create a new Potential Response Tree (PRT) or edit an existing PRT in a Moodle Quiz question.

• UNSWSRV-521 group: Fix automated testing failure related to group customisations
  Affects System - Resolves automated test failures with group customisations.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-500 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-516 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.10
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version 9.0.10.

• UNSWSRV-517 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra Theme V9.0.10
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version 9.0.10.

• UNSWSRV-518 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.10
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version 9.0.10.

• UNSWSRV-519 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation July 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to July 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-520 format_remuiformat: RemUI Course Format Customisation July 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme course format to July 2023 version.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-463 mod_workshep: Fixes the error occurring in Team Mode and No submission required mode
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can create UNSW Workshop activity with Team mode AND not require a submission in the submission phase.

• UNSWSRV-469 mod_workshep: Workshop (UNSW) plugin has an issue when allocating submission manually in Team mode (Part 1)
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can manually allocate submissions in Team mode in UNSW Workshop activity.

• UNSWSRV-474 mod_workshep: Workshop (UNSW) plugin has an issue when allocating submission manually in Team mode (Part 2)
  Affects Students - Ensures a team should not lose the submission if the submitter leaves or is removed from the group in UNSW Workshop activity.

• UNSWSRV-476 theme_remui: Remove old rendering files that override Quiz questions
  Affects System - Deletes defunct rendering files that override the display of some Cloze Quiz questions.

• UNSWSRV-490 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.9
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version 9.0.9.

• UNSWSRV-491 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra Theme V9.0.9
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version 9.0.9.

• UNSWSRV-492 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.9
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version 9.0.9.

• UNSWSRV-488 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation June 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to June 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-495 mod_lti: Fix memberships for LTI 1.3
  Affects System - Enables auto-provisioning of users in Inspera using LTI 1.3.

Task

• UNSWSRV-441 plugins: Remove Flash Apocalypse report plugin
  Affects System - Uninstalls Flash Apocalypse report plugin as it is no longer required to provide a report on defunct Flash files.

• UNSWSRV-470 local_logshipper: Send email notification after error occurs
  Affects System - Sends an email notification when an error occurs while running the automated logs extracting task.

• UNSWSRV-477 config: Track view capabilities for checklist report in grade export
  Affects UNSW Global Administrator and Teaching Assistants - Allows UNSW Global Administrator and Teaching Assistant to view and export grades using the dropdown list in Gradebook setup.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-414 mod_assign: Fix issue with qualitative rubric - Team Evaluation reverts grade to 0 when saved
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures the grade is saved in Gradebook for Group assignment submission with Team Evaluation enabled when using rubrics.

• UNSWSRV-415 mod_assign: Fix issue with qualitative rubric - Grade area is not displaying in a clear way
  Affects Staff - Display "Grade out of 100" field in Gradebook as empty when a student has not yet been graded using rubrics.

• UNSWSRV-475 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-487 login_unswglobal: Remove forced theme to UNSW New
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures Moodle Enhance theme is applied to UNSW College courses.

• UNSWSRV-489 login_unswglobal: Change over references to UNSW College
  Affects Staff/Students - Updates old UNSW Global references to UNSW College.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-467 format_remuiformat: RemUI Course Format Customisation May 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme course format to May 2023 version

• UNSWSRV-468 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation May 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to May 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-472 Revert MDL-76993: Recover move right/left functionality removed/hidden for 4.0
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can indent course content numerous times.

• UNSWSRV-473 qformat_unswqti: Fix failing unit test for Import and Export of QTI format 2.2
  Affects System - Addresses the error generated during automated testing.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-459 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

New Feature

• UNSWSRV-446 plugins: Install plugin qformat_qml and add the custom file type
  Affects Staff - Enables Questionmark QML files to be imported into the Moodle question bank. Additional information on this plugin is available at https://github.com/lucisgit/moodle-qformat_qml.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-386 course_format: Fix additional characters }} added to DIV class for a Label
  Affects System - Removes the extra characters }} added onto a DIV class for a Label in a course content page to ensure the content is displayed correctly.

• UNSWSRV-427 theme_unsw_online: UNSW online theme V2023030300
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Online theme to version 2023030300.

• UNSWSRV-442 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.8
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version 9.0.8.

• UNSWSRV-443 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra Theme V9.0.8
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version 9.0.8.

• UNSWSRV-444 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.8
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version 9.0.8.

• UNSWSRV-445 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation April 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to April 2023 version.

Task

• UNSWSRV-408 DB: Task to set and enable course enablecompletion and showcompletionconditions
  Affects Staff/Students - Enables Completion Tracking and displays the activity completion conditions in a specific list of Term 1 2023 courses in the Business School.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-409 grade: Implement removal of ‘No set’ text and radio button for rubric grading
  Affects Staff - Removes the ‘No set’ text and radio button under each criterion in the rubric grading method.

• UNSWSRV-413 local_staffsync: Add configuration for adding email domains allowed for cohort members
  Affects Staff - Enables user accounts which have @adtest.unsw.edu.au to use the Sandpit Request Form.

• UNSWSRV-417 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-439 Apply security patches from 4.0.7
  Affects System - Applies the most recently announced security patches from Moodle version 4.0.7.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-425 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation March 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to March 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-426 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.6
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version 9.0.6.

• UNSWSRV-428 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra Theme V9.0.6
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version 9.0.6.

• UNSWSRV-429 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.6
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version 9.0.6.

• UNSWSRV-432 format_remuiformat: RemUI Course Format Customisation March 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme course format to March 2023 version.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-410 Apply BASE-4656: local_o365: Remove plugin manually purging caches unnecessarily
  Affects System - Prevents long delays when administrators update notification and other plugin settings by no longer clearing caches unless required.

• UNSWSRV-396 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation February 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to February 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-395 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra theme V9.0.4 fix 2
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version 9.0.4.

• UNSWSRV-394 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.5
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version 9.0.5.

• UNSWSRV-393 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.5
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version 9.0.5.

Task

• UNSWSRV-392 config: format_topcoll: Set and track changetogglealignment
  Affects AGSM EE Administrator and UNSW Global Administrator - Enables AGSM EE Administrator and UNSW Global Administrator to change the alignment of text for a section name in the Collapsed Topic course format.

• UNSWSRV-389 config: Track new Additional HTML sections values
  Affects System - Updates Google analytics to the new Google Analytics 4 Property.

• UNSWSRV-376 DB: Set hidden course section 0 to visible
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures users can view content in all sections using Grid course format.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-398 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-304 mod_oublog: Fixes the issue of unable to view OU Blog page as a guest
  Affects Guest - Allows Guest users to view posts if the setting is enabled in OU Blog.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-335 theme_unsw_new: Apply UNSW-983: Fix sharing cart select width issue
  Affects Staff - Ensures the dropdown selection box for Sharing Cart does not overlap with the course content area.

• UNSWSRV-338 Apply BASE-4633: mod_workshep: Fix broken activity icon
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures the icon in UNSW Workshop is displayed correctly.

• UNSWSRV-377 theme_unsw_online: UNSW online theme January 2023
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Online theme to version 20230124.

• UNSWSRV-384 Apply BASE-4643: local_azure_storage: Update guzzlehttp to 6.5.8 (and other vendor components) Attach Create subtask
  Affects System - Ensures large files can be uploaded to Azure blob storage successfully.

• UNSWSRV-385 Apply BASE-4661: mod_workshep: Fix error when submitting on behalf of users
  Affects Students - Ensures a user in a group can submit on behalf of other users in team mode in UNSW Workshop..

Task

• UNSWSRV-310 config: Hide Poodll button in TinyMCE editor
  Affects System - Removes the Poodll button and tracks the setting for TinyMCE editor.

• UNSWSRV-327 config: Track enabling bulk editing on course page for Remui theme
  Affects Staff - Enables bulk editing functionality on course page in RemUI theme.

• UNSWSRV-328 config: enrol_guest: Set and track Allow guest access to no
  Affects System - Ensures all new courses are created without Guest access enabled.

• UNSWSRV-341 lang: mod_hsuforum: Update Grade Type Settings Help string
  Affects Staff - Updates the tooltip for Grade Type Settings in Open Forum.

• UNSWSRV-346 config: Set and track values for various email recipient settings [M4.0]
  Affects System Administrator - Adds a new user to the mailing list for automated Cron reports.

• UNSWSRV-347 config: editor_atto: Remove poodll from toolbar
  Affects Staff - Removes the Online Poodll from Submission types when adding an Assignment.

• UNSWSRV-348 config: qtype_coderunner: Hide question type CodeRunner plugin
  Affects Staff/Students - Removes the option to add the CodeRunner Quiz question.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-309 mod_quiz: fix capability check for deletion of multiple random questions
  Affects Staff - Ensures multiple Quiz questions can be deleted at the same time.

• UNSWSRV-318 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation December 2022
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to December 2022 version.

• UNSWSRV-336 format_remuiformat: Apply MEP-276: Restore bulk editing section selection checkbox
  Affects Staff - Restores the 'Select all activities/resources in this section' button in the Bulk Edit Toolbar in Moodle Enhance theme.

• UNSWSRV-337 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation January 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to January 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-342 config: Enable cache course public information [M4.0]
  Affects System - Improves the performance when using Course meta link enrolment method.

• UNSWSRV-344 local/pluginextender: Send custom profile UPN optionally with LTI connection [M4.0]
  Affects Staff - Enables Instructor to send UPN (UNSW's email address) to an External Tool via a dropdown option.

• UNSWSRV-345 lib: add the auth-saml-login page to the excluded list of login pages [M4.0]
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures the URL for Moodle login page is correct when searching using Google and Bing.

• UNSWSRV-370 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-182 Apply BASE-4587: mod_ouwiki: Fix annotation issue
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can annotate in OU Wiki.

• UNSWSRV-268 Apply BASE-4613: mod_activequiz: Fix exception occurring when trying to add or edit an activequiz module
  Affects Staff - Ensures an Active Quiz can be added and edited in a course.

• UNSWSRV-270 Apply BASE-4612: mod_studentquiz: fix title and description to not be displayed twice
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures Topic and Description are not displayed twice in StudentQuiz.

• UNSWSRV-271 core_course_completion: Increase memory for fetching course completion data
  Affects TELT Administrator - Ensures Course Completion page is displayed without any error.

• UNSWSRV-273 Apply BASE-4620: mod_data: Fix the exception occurring on RSS feed for the activity
  Affects Staff - Ensures no RSS exception is displayed if a field in Database is empty.

• UNSWSRV-292 Apply BASE-4617: block_rolespecifichtml: fix submitted draft not recovered after saving
  Affects Staff - Ensures the content for each role in the HTML per role block is saved correctly.

• UNSWSRV-293 Apply BASE-4599: mod_attendance: fix for auto record attendance
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures all student records are recorded in Attendance.

• UNSWSRV-294 Apply BASE-4610: mod_certificate: fix introduction displayed twice
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures Introduction is not displayed twice in Certificate.

• UNSWSRV-295 Apply BASE-4611: mod_questionnaire: fix title and description to not be displayed twice
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures Title and Introduction are not displayed twice in Questionnaire.

• UNSWSRV-298 Apply BASE-4618: mod_activequiz: Fix the errors on the edit quiz page of the module
  Affects Staff - Ensures an Active Quiz can be added and edited in a course.

• UNSWSRV-299 Apply BASE-4621: Revert: INT-18123: With Ally turned on, multiple choice questions are not displaying answers correctly
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures the Multiple Choice quiz questions are created with the answers provided by the Instructors.

• UNSWSRV-326 Apply BASE-4627: local_azure_storage: Update guzzlehttp
  Affects System - Ensures grades from teaching courses are extracted and uploaded to Azure Blob storage.

• UNSWSRV-329 Apply BASE-4630: local_pld: Cast role selector value for emails to int
  Affects Staff - Ensures PLD rules are displayed and can be imported into a course.

• UNSWSRV-332 block_rolespecifichtml: fix submitted draft not recovered after saving
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures content for All roles in the HTML per role block is saved and displayed.

Task

• UNSWSRV-272 tool_moodlenet: config: Set and track enablemoodlenet
  Affects System - Turns off and tracks the setting for MoodleNet.

• UNSWSRV-333 DB: Task to disable New Login Notifications from Message admin page
  Affects Staff/Students - Disables New Login Notification email from being sent to users when logging in to Moodle using a new device.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-235 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.3
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version v9.0.3.

• UNSWSRV-236 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra theme V9.0.3
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Canberra theme to version v9.0.3.

• UNSWSRV-237 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW there column new theme V9.0.3
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version v9.0.3.

• UNSWSRV-297 Apply BASE-4622: mod_workshep: Fixes the duplication of title issue on the submission page
  Affects Students - Ensures Title is not displayed twice on the submission page of UNSW Workshop.

• UNSWSRV-307 Apply BASE-4623: block_rolespecifichtml: fix warning showing up after creating a new block
  Affects Staff - Ensures a new HTML per role block is created without any error.

• UNSWSRV-308 Apply BASE-4622: Apply INT-18335: Remove activity header for hsuforum
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures Title and Description are not displayed twice in Open Forum.

• UNSWSRV-311 theme_unsw_new: UNSW new theme V9.0.4
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to version v9.0.4.

• UNSWSRV-312 theme_unsw_three_col_new: UNSW three column new theme V9.0.4
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version v9.0.4.

• UNSWSRV-313 theme_unsw_canberra: UNSW Canberra theme V9.0.4
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Three Column theme to version v9.0.3.

• UNSWSRV-317 theme_agsm: AGSM theme (M4.0) theme dev fixes 2
  Affects System - Applies latest updates to AGSM theme.

• UNSWSRV-323 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-330 integration: add indexes to enrolment db tables
  Affects System - Improves the performance of the automated enrolment synchronisation with SiMs.

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