Moodle LMS 3.1

27 May 2016

Moodle LMS version 3.1 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.1

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.1

• MDL-53451 - Competencies support in Moodle
  
• MDL-52954 - Improvements to the Assignment grading user interface
  
• MDL-31989 - Global Search API allows to search forums, wikis and other content throughout the whole site. Installation and setup of SOLR server is required,
  
• MDL-52002 - Significant performance improvements in gradebook calculations
  
• MDL-48012 - Recycle bin plugin is now part of standard Moodle distribution: allow instructors to "undo" deletions of course modules and courses. Moodle Users Association project
  
• MDL-49279 - Add support in moodle plugins for exporting "Mobile app addons"
  

• MDL-372 - Allow to "pin" discussions to keep them always on the top of the list
  
• MDL-34160 - Allow forum email subject to be customised
  
• MDL-47365 - Add permalink option to forum posts
  
• MDL-51214 - Rename the News forum to "Announcements"
  
• MDL-44087 - Forum does not observe message notification settings for digest emails
  
• MDL-53050 - Highlight the selected forum post when deep linking with a #anchor
  

• MDL-52397 - Feedback for Assignments is not sent if the assignment grade timemodified setting was set to two days ago
  
• MDL-52596 - Add a 'maxperpage' site wide setting for grading table size (to mitigate broken grading pages in large courses)
  
• MDL-52269 - Not obvious to tell if an assignment is in blind marking if user holds the "mod/assign:viewblinddetails" capabilty
  
• MDL-52270 - Difficult to cross reference users with their blind identities
  
• MDL-44598 - List student names on 'grant extension' screen
  
• MDL-52490 - Download selected assign submissions as a zip file
  
• MDL-52290 - EditPDF - Also show the total page number in the pagination
  
• MDL-52489 - "Download all submissions as a zip" should maintain the folder structure in students submissions
  

• MDL-52154 - Rework LTI admin screens
  
• MDL-45064 - Option to add Preconfigured LTI Tool to Activity Chooser
  
• MDL-52035 - Integrate LTI Provider support in Moodle as the Publish as LTI tool
  
• MDL-52821 - Compliance: Send tool_consumer_instance_description in LTI launch request
  

• MDL-53738 - Feedback activity module will be enabled by default in new 3.1 installations. If you are upgrading to 3.1 we recommend you to enable it manually.
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Performance improvement to download responses as raw data in multiple formats (CSV, Excel, etc.) - now available on "Show responses" page instead of "Analysis"
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Allow any characters in labels, do not display empty labels
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Do not display empty pages
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Map frontpage feedback to multiple courses without leaving the form
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Improved display of automatic question numbers
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Disable "Response time" for anonymous feedbacks
  
• MDL-52094 - Various improvements to UI and bug fixes: Use moodleforms to display feedback
  

• MDL-45712 - Add Result field to the SCORM Interactions Report
  
• MDL-48680 - Add score and status submission events to SCORM activity
  
• MDL-42473 - Add group support to SCORM activity
  

• MDL-52738 - Quiz attempt/review page should have a previous button to match next
  
• MDL-46092 - Add the OU styling of the Quiz navigation into Moodle core as the default
  
• MDL-46091 - Rationalise confirmations when you start a quiz
  
• MDL-52806 - Show right answers when manually grading automatically marked questions
  
• MDL-53304 - Immediate feedback behaviours should not show a disabled check button when you can't use it
  

• MDL-42190 - Workshop: Possibility to delete a submission
  
• MDL-51306 - Folder: Bulk download all files within a folder activity as ZIP file
  
• MDL-52414 - Lesson: Allow Default Settings for Lesson Module Settings
  
• MDL-51267 - URL/File: Make setting up a URL/File resource more obvious
  
• MDL-50794 - Workshop: Restricting file types as attachments to a workshop
  

• MDL-48634 - Option to rescale existing grades when changing max points
  
• MDL-52522 - grade_minmaxtouse should be respected for overridden categories
  
• MDL-51900 - Tab Down Grade Column in Single View of Gradebook
  
• MDL-52309 - Make Grade History report require user to submit parameters before the report starts running
  

• MDL-51374 - Do not purge entire databasemeta cache when there are structure changes (esp temp tables).
  
• MDL-51603 - Refactor downloading of csv, ods, excel etc files in reports and exports across moodle to stream progressively
  
• MDL-34925 - Improve bulk user export performance
  
• MDL-50385 - Performance improvement to the grade history report
  

• MDL-50851 - Introduce tag collections - ability to separate independent tag areas
  
• MDL-52252 - Add tags to modules (Resources and Activities)
  
• MDL-25742 - Allow to search wiki pages by tags
  
• MDL-51283 - Rename "official" tags to "standard", allow admin to set for each tag area how to use standard tags
  
• MDL-16855 - Add tag filtering to "Manage tags" page
  
• MDL-52707 - Allow tags to be combined
  

• MDL-27628 - Enrol meta: Possible to add multiple courses without leaving the form
  
• MDL-51818 - Move the profile 'Message' button to be next to the user picture
  
• MDL-52258 - Calendar now shows duration in calendar block
  
• MDL-53043 - Move user search box above the students list in the manual enrolments popup
  
• MDL-35590 - Navigation block redesign to meet ARIA specification
  
• MDL-49963 - Allow to message all participants when there are more than one page in participants list
  
• MDL-51354 - Help popup and improved name for events dropdown menu on the course and site logs pages
  
• MDL-53026 - Use inplace editable for editing cohort names
  
• MDL-51706 - Move plagiarism links to the top of the summary and full text outputs
  
• MDL-53382 - "Show all" link on participants page should be moved beneath the page switcher
  

• MDL-53057 - Add search feature to the File system repository
  
• MDL-48506 - Improve memcached cache store so that it is multi-site safe
  
• MDL-50661 - Restyle "Clean" theme to use Logo and Header in Frontpage with smaller logo option in other pages.
  
• MDL-36652 - When downloading an Excel spreadsheet of student logs, have the course short name included in the file name.
  
• MDL-53207 - Display stock avatar instead of own user picture from messages from fake users
  
• MDL-51698 - Markup the crumb trail so search engines understand it and leverage it
  
• MDL-53072 - Option to choose whether we include suspended users when auto-creating groups
  
• MDL-52869 - Convert inline activity name edit to use the inplace editable element
  

• MDL-26935 - New capability to control role renaming
  
• MDL-28030 - Add config.php settings to allow plugins to rewrite output moodle_urls (eg clean / semantic urls)
  
• MDL-52752 - Administrators can specify an alternate URL to use for MathJax
  
• MDL-52219 - Completion tracking & availability should default to on for new installs
  
• MDL-52990 - Enable all emails to be themed, ie add 4 wrapper mustache templates
  
• MDL-53260 - Option to display CLI upgrade messages in English
  
• MDL-52386 - Allow to control field for flagging enabled/disabled users in LDAP authentication (useful for Active Directory)
  
• MDL-52383 - Calendar "Days to look ahead" should allow intervals up to 1 year
  
• MDL-49934 - Admins or managers should be able to retrieve assignments info via get_assignments web service
  

• There are no security issues included in this release, please refer to Moodle 3.0.4 release notes