Moodle LMS 3.8

5 December 2019

Moodle LMS version 3.8 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 3.8

What's New in Moodle LMS 3.8

• Analytics models may be restricted to category or course contexts
  
• Insights about students who have not logged in recently
  
• Report on the actions executed by users on predictions
  
• Allow targets to limit the analysis interval to a specific interface or parent class.
  
• Extra garbage collection for analytics
  
• Require enrolments to be active for most of the analysis interval
  
• Add bulk actions for analytics' insights
  
• Insight notifications improvements
  
• Analytics models should be sorted by name and not last modified
  
• Allow the Python machine learning backend to run from a separate server
  
• Add multi-class capabilities to prediction processors
  
• Global on/off switch for analytics
  

• Create a new button in Atto to add H5P content in anywhere from hp5.com and h5p.org external URLs
  
• Improve H5P filter to allow internal H5P content URLs
  
• Implement backup and restore process for H5P content
  
• Add Admin UI to manually upload H5P content-type libraries
  
• Create a capability to update H5P content-type libraries
  
• Create a task to install H5P content-type libraries
  
• Create the basic skeleton, library and interfaces for rendering H5P content
  
• Improve H5P Atto button to upload content
  
• Create a new filter to convert h5p.com and h5p.org URLs to embed code
  

• Forum report: Basic skeleton
  
• Forum summary report option to message selected users
  
• Groups filter in forum summary report
  
• Dates filter in forum summary report
  
• Link forum summary report to export of each user's post content
  
• Add columns for word count and character count to the forum summary report
  
• Add the ability to download the forum summary report
  
• Forum export functionality
  
• Dates filter in forum export
  
• Forum export options for human-readable dates and removing HTML
  
• Create forum grading interface
  
• Display grading form in the grading panel
  
• Add a button to display the entire discussion for a post being graded
  
• Make 'require grade' an activity completion criterion for the forum
  
• Forum grading user search
  
• Forum grading option to send notification to student
  
• Forum view grades option for students
  
• Support restricting the user list to a specific group
  
• Create settings side drawer for new discussion view
  
• Create new discussion view for forum
  
• Update display of discussion in discussion list table
  
• Search starred discussions only option in forum advanced search
  

• Assignment: Annotate PDF - Rotate submitted image automatically
  
• Annotate PDF - Right-to-left UI - The rotate buttons order is confusing
  
• Enable the saving and printing of annotated PDFs from previous attempts
  
• Assignment: Add warning about students falling into Default group if group submissions are enabled but not required
  
• Performance improvements for user / group overrides for mod assign
  

• Display ID number and tags in the question bank UI
  
• Question bank: replace the row of edit icons with an Edit menu
  
• Allow question types to add extra actions to the Question bank edit menu
  

• Assignment due date relative to the student course start date
  
• Weeks format relative dates
  
• Course relative dates mode setting
  
• Option to override the assignment due date in a relative dates course
  

• block_myoverview: Add admin setting to control the available layouts
  
• An admin can set which filters are available for users to select in their Dashboard course overview
  
• An admin can specify a course custom field as a filter for users to select in their Dashboard course overview
  
• Course card pattern colours may be specified by an admin
  
• Courses with course visibility set to hide should be labelled 'Hidden from students' in the course overview
  
• block_myoverview: Improve pagination widget
  
• Change 'Hidden' to 'Removed from view' in the course overview
  

• Add emojis to messaging
  
• Atto should support full emoji
  

• Session Timeout alert
  
• Provide a more consistent and better way of selecting and deselecting all items in a list
  
• Show alphabet filter in grader report even when there are less than 100 users
  
• Forms do not prevent same data submission multiple times
  
• Browser back button should work as expected in the administration menu with Boost theme
  
• Let users set their default homepage
  
• Participants list - Filter users with no roles
  
• Calendar view selector enables users to switch between month, day and upcoming events
  
• Improve drag and drop question accessibility in high-contrast mode
  
• The UI for setting enrolment end date/duration should be consistent
  
• Boost Theme accessibility: Nav drawer should be marked up as list
  
• Better progress display while re-grading quiz attempts
  
• Drag and drop upload progressbar invert inner and outer
  

• Administrative setting to show/not show "hide" feature in online users block
  
• The description should be displayed when viewing a Book, Lesson or IMS content package
  
• Option to include author information when importing entries into a database activity
  
• Make "course request" capability category context instead of system context
  
• Users should be informed that they can't block a user who has permission to message all users
  
• Add send message buffering
  
• Show plain text in Messages summary pane
  
• Several core emails provide only text format
  
• Include files option in backup settings
  
• VideoJS upgrade to 7.6.5 including HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) support
  
• Add support for FLAC files
  
• Make awarding badges groups/groupings compliant
  
• Global Search: Replace course search form with global search
  
• Display course category in course related block
  
• Global search: Delete from search index when courses are deleted
  
• block_timeline can cause JSON parse error on dashboard when activities are saved with newline characters
  
• Calendar course event icon is different from course icon
  
• Add new Mobile setting for forcing a minimum app version to access the site
  
• Option to disable the "Forgotten password" feature in the app
  
• The People block is no longer needed and should be removed from core
  

• Log role changes in more detail
  
• Allow disabling of cron output when capturing logs
  
• Let the admin control if lists of courses should be pre-sorted by visibility or not
  
• Let the administrator configure which user filters are shown by default
  
• Add ability to search/filter users by Last IP Address
  
• Disable GUI plugin uninstalls (eg $CFG->uninstallclionly similar to $CFG->disableupdateautodeploy)
  
• Automated backup course ordering
  
• Add column for enrol start dates to Upload users CSV
  
• Upload users via text file should include the optional user field 'disable notifications'
  
• Add an example csv file for bulk uploading of users
  
• Option to duplicate a user tour
  
• Add a new event when a grade item has been created
  
• Include changed course settings in course_updated event
  
• Cache admin UI: make it easy re-purge the cache you just purged
  
• Redis Cache: implement compression
  
• Allow Redis cache to use PHP extension Zstd
  
• Private files space setting should use MB not Bytes
  
• Change 'Open to Google' setting to 'Open to search engines'
  
• Add cli upgrade option to test if an upgrade is required
  
• Admin pages login as guest and then throw Access denied error (should prompt for login) require_admin()
  

• New $CFG->behat_pause_on_fail option added
  
• The $CFG->httpswwwroot was removed
  
• New steps to navigate straight to any plugin web page. Plugins must implement their own resolver between page types and URLs.
  
• Profiling included and excluded URLs now are matched from start. Some adjustments may be needed.
  
• Quiz: quiz attempt API should let you create an attempt for a different user
  
• Components other than activity modules should be able to backup and restore question attempt data
  
• Question engine: report methods should not require a list of slots
  
• Add a new transpilation tool for ES6
  
• Remove the restriction to forbid subdirectories in the templates directory
  
• $DB->get_records uses a lot of Peak RAM (with Postgres)
  
• Add hooks to extend all forms with /login/
  
• Caching of templates should use a new templaterev variable
  
• Allow support for xsendfile in alternative_file_system_class independently of local files
  
• Improve the moodlebot user agent and expose a function for plugins to use
  
• Move dependencies and subplugins to JSON
  
• Remove the CSS chunker from Moodle
  
• Allow themes to alter the core css url's
  
• Removed unused Pear_Crypt_CHAP library
  

• Make some web service calls idempotent over http GET
  
• Web service to enable H5P offline access in the Moodle app
  
• New Web Services for updating a forum post (or a discussion topic post)
  
• New web service to delete forum posts
  
• New web services for adding and deleting comments
  
• Enforce app security by using tokenpluginfile.php instead webservice/pluginfile.php
  
• Blocks Web Services (for course and dashboard) should return the block settings