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Moodle LMS 3.11

17 May 2021

Moodle LMS version 3.11 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.11

Moodle LMS 3.11 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply Moodle LMS updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing Moodle LMS install to test the 3.11 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Moodle LMS installations with Installatron

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.11

Security

Provide admin setting type for secure data (passwords/tokens)
Add logging when auth config is automatically changed due to config/filesystem mismatch
Reduce ability to fingerprint a server with a htaccess-dist / nginx file / docs
Allow antivirus scanners to specify the message to the user
Log changes to the message notifications settings
Allow plugins to augment the cURL security helper via callback
Reduce information disclosure from TCPDF version
Log changes to auth plugin settings in config log
Display user email address visibility settings on their own profile

Improve student activity completion

Define sort ordering for completion conditions
Update the course homepage to display the activity information
Implement the activity dates functionality for each activity and output them in view.php
Create a base class for fetching a user's activity completion details
Create a base class for fetching an activity's dates that are relevant for a given user
Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 1
Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 2
Review and update existing web services to return the new fields and exported information from activities
Activity completion fallback for third party plugins
Remove duplicate activity dates
Deprecate the *_get_completion_state() callbacks
Create user tours for the activity information output component

Brickfield accessibility toolkit

Brickfield Education Labs accessibility toolkit core integration

Badges

Make Moodle OBv2.1 implementation compliant
Add new "IMS OBv2.1" OAuth 2 service
Remove "Backpack settings" site administration page and improve UI
Improve resolution of badge image sent to external backpacks and used when duplicating badges

Content bank and H5P

Add ability to disable specified H5P content types
Create a task to clean up unused H5P content
Allow admins to set the default returntype in repository_contentbank
Update content bank upload button to open file picker in a popup instead of new page
Option to make a content bank item unlisted
Open H5P file from H5P activity when it was added as a reference
Content bank should provide info on the number of places where content is used and warn you when deleting

Assignment

Assignment comments should be also saved when clicking 'save changes' in the assignment grader page
Allow mod_assign download all assignments to be streamed
Assignment name filter preference should only affect current assignment's view
Implement Poppler pdftoppm compatibility for faster assignment submission PDF to PNG conversion
Add 'Draft' filter to assignment grading table

Quiz and questions

Add Plagiarism support to essay questions
Questions: Default options when creating a question
Add default options for essay question type
Add default options for ddimageortext, ddmarker and match question types
Display pass grade on quiz front page
Add optional min/max word count limits to Essay question type
Read-only view of quiz settings overrides
Improve manual grading of quiz essay answers - web page format
Manual grading of automatically graded questions: show computer grading
Add default options for numerical question type using user-preferences
In a newly created quiz, prevent "Edit quiz" and "Back to the course" buttons sticking together
Quiz override screens should show user identity fields
Quiz review: name the person who made each change in the question response history (if not the student)

Accessibility improvements

Improve accessibility of profile images
Make it possible to style toast notifications

Usability improvements

Create an output component that displays an activity's information for a user
More filtering options on Activity Completion Report
UX Review of session expired timeout modal
Add year to messaging conversation date headings, if not the current year
Show confirmation when profile changes are saved
Add ability to search country field on Participants page
Default the participants page filtering to "ALL"
Improve notification preferences on/off buttons so they fit better with non-English strings
OAuth2: Display login errors on the login page
LTI: Support Course dates substitution parameters
Create landing page for the reports link in the secondary navigation
Update message preferences of a user as admin to use consistent toggle icons
Add support for keyboard hotkeys in VideoJS
Always show the close button on the message drawer

Other highlights
Functional changes

Convert user profile fields for messaging/networking into custom profile fields
Enable playbackrates for videojs
Allow user profile fields to be specified as user identity fields - New code is backwards-compatible, but report code should be updated.
Remove "Enable activity chooser" user preference
Update Google Drive repository to allow Shared drive files
Option to not include permissions overrides when importing or restoring a backup
Backup and Restore lastaccess to course
Remove option to hide a group picture
Differentiate between grade as a noun and grade as a verb in the UI texts
Add custom user field support to group management screens
Add an option to display section names in Section link block

For administrators

Move Microsoft, Facebook and NextCloud OAuth2 services to new, reorganised architecture
Add a "Replace filter" option on the admin browse users page
Ability to force cron scheduled task definitions in config.php (schedule and disabled)
Create a CLI script to reset user dashboards
Improve the web services tokens management to allow searching and filtering
Check for removed files before CLI upgrade
Add ability to switch off session lock debugging
Implement a renderer for progress_bar in cli output
Allow disabled tasks to be run from the GUI
Add the ability to configure OAuth2 services for login only; add login display name
Update the ClamAV default behaviour when an error occurs
Use Dynamic Registration to allow Tools to update to LTI Advantage
Payment service consumers should be able to specify url after payment
Make it easier to find a specific component in template library
Allow searching of available language packs
Add showdebugging and showsql options to admin/cli/uninstall_plugins.php
Config change event should link to config change report
Sort capabilities in capability overview tool

Mobile

Add a new option in Moodle app "Disabled features" for preventing the new LTI launch in the app
Include option for testing Push notifications in a site

Performance

mod/folder/download_folder.php should be a streaming zip download
Make my_reset_page_for_all_users for dashboards more robust
Implement cleanup of analytics_indicator_calc stores table
Extend the 'backup_cleanup_task' scheduled task to remove old files
Cache course image in the course_summary_exporter
Allow redis session store to use zip or zStd for compression like redis MUC
Running a scheduled task in the GUI should unlock the session
Eliminate DB queries in mod/glossary/settings.php
Update language pack installs / updates to run asynchronously to avoid timeouts when multiple are used

For developers

New sql_group_concat db method
Add module for displaying moodleform in a modal window
Upgrade PHPUnit to 9.5.x
Improve the readonly session debugging message
HTTP 503 Service Not Available is returned by exceptions and should be 500 instead
Upgrade boost to use Bootstrap latest version
Restore backup: add getter method for oldmoduleid
Support large number of SQL-IN parameters in Postgres
Preserve form data when purging individual caches
Move user_fields from core to core_user

Web service additions and updates

Add ability for "get enrolled users" web service to be filtered by suspended users
Create a new endpoint (script) to retrieve draft files from web services
Create web service to trigger report_viewed event for H5P activities
Create H5P activity web service to get the list of students that attempted an activity
New web service core_files_get_unused_draft_itemid
Return quiz pass grade via web services
Update mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service to return the last_modified attribute
Batch create API for grade categories
All new external functions implementation classes should use execute as the method name, in which case the methodname property should not be specified in db/services.php file

Deprecations

Deprecate unused backpack js functions
Deprecate get_forum_discussions_paginated webservice
Phase 2 of deprecation of functions in lib/deprecatedlib.php initially deprecated in 3.7
Final deprecation for analytics methods deprecated in MDL-64783
Final deprecation of i_dock_block()
Final deprecation of \core_analytics\manager::add_builtin_models()
get_enabled_time_splitting_methods final deprecation
Final deprecation of behat_base::TIMEOUT and related constants
Remove message/defaultoutputs.php and final deprecation of admin_page_manageqbehaviours class
Final deprecation of booktool_print_get_toc()
Final deprecation of enrol/database/cli/sync.php

Component API updates

admin/upgrade.txt
analytics/upgrade.txt
auth/shibboleth/upgrade.txt
backup/upgrade.txt
badges/upgrade.txt
blocks/section_links/upgrade.txt
blocks/tag_youtube/upgrade.txt
completion/upgrade.txt
contentbank/upgrade.txt
course/upgrade.txt
customfield/upgrade.txt
enrol/database/upgrade.txt
enrol/upgrade.txt
group/upgrade.txt
h5p/upgrade.txt
lib/upgrade.txt
mod/book/upgrade.txt
mod/feedback/upgrade.txt
mod/forum/upgrade.txt
mod/h5pactivity/upgrade.txt
mod/quiz/upgrade.txt
payment/upgrade.txt
plagiarism/upgrade.txt
question/type/upgrade.txt
report/upgrade.txt
repository/upgrade.txt
theme/upgrade.txt
user/upgrade.txt
webservice/upgrade.txt