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Moodle LMS 4.3

11 October 2023

Moodle LMS version 4.3 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Moodle LMS 4.3

Moodle LMS 4.3 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 4.3 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Moodle LMS installations with Installatron

What's New in Moodle LMS 4.3

Major UX improvements - Gradebook

MDL-77638 - Create a modal form for basic addition of grade categories in Gradebook setup
MDL-78217 - Improve the overriding of weights in the Gradebook setup
MDL-77447 - Make the grade item status indicators consistent across the Gradebook reports
MDL-77639 - Create a modal form for basic addition of outcomes in Gradebook setup
MDL-77035 - Improve the UI related to the bulk move functionality in Gradebook setup
MDL-77637 - Create a modal form for basic addition of grade item in Gradebook setup
MDL-78100 - Add an option to clear all applied filters in the grader report

Major UX improvements - Activity cards redesign

MDL-78283 - Add radio dropdown interaction to group mode icon
MDL-78279 - Create new details dropdown components
MDL-78282 - Add radio dropdown interaction to availability badge
MDL-78280 - Add details dropdown to completion criteria badge
MDL-78288 - Add access restriction quickform direct link button to restrictions details dropdown
MDL-78200 - Add the group mode indicator to the activity card
MDL-78954 - Improve action menu subpanel aesthetics and effects
MDL-78826 - Improve accessibility of keyboard control for the generic dropdowns
MDL-78607 - Improve section and activity settings form to load access restrictions
MDL-78665 - Create a generic submenu for status selection
MDL-78286 - Add completion quickform direct link button to completion details dropdown
MDL-78207 - Implement activity card information badge integration
MDL-78203 - Add group mode option to activity actions submenu
MDL-78201 - Create the groupmode state actions
MDL-78199 - Improve activity card styling
MDL-78744 - Refactor 'activity_information' output class
MDL-78289 - Improve the student completion criteria display format
MDL-78204 - Add "show more" / "show less" options for access restrictions on course page
MDL-78291 - Modify the availability activity action menu to open in a subpanel

Other major features - Messaging phase 1 - Integrate chat services

MDL-77576 - Matrix integration MVP - Matrix is available for use in courses
MDL-78619 - Add a custom link communication provider
MDL-76704 - Admin settings to control Matrix room creation for Courses
MDL-77357 - Create dynamic form fields feature for communication plugins
MDL-77252 - Add banners to indicate room creation status to teachers
MDL-78129 - Allow teachers, managers and admins to moderate their courses' Matrix rooms
MDL-77917 - Allow versioned APIs for clients in Matrix provider

Other major features - LTI external tools - Improve configuration and management in courses

MDL-78575 - Centralised page to view and manage preconfigured LTI external tools in a course
MDL-78909 - Enable setting whether a preconfigured tool appears in the activity chooser in a course
MDL-78916 - Simplify the creation of an LTI external tool activity in a course
MDL-78576 - Improve deletion of course preconfigured LTI tools

Other major features - Multi-factor Authentication

MDL-78509 - MFA in core
MDL-78534 - Improve 2nd factor verify flow
MDL-79051 - Improve email template

Other major features - MoodleNet integration - Phase 2

MDL-75318 - Allow teachers to share courses to MoodleNet (all activities)
MDL-78267 - Add ability for teachers to customise courses shared to MoodleNet
MDL-75502 - Implement share progress page for content shared to MoodleNet
MDL-77296 - Record MoodleNet share progress data in a consumable format

Other major features - Default site completion criteria settings

MDL-78528 - Redesign the Default activity completion page
MDL-78517 - Homogenise the course completion conditions
MDL-78531 - Create a new 'Courses > Default settings' section in Site administration
MDL-78530 - Consider the default site completion settings during activity creation
MDL-78527 - Improve the completion conditions form
MDL-78633 - Use tertiary navigation selector in Course completion settings
MDL-79093 - Order activities by display name in Default activity completion

Other major features - TinyMCE 6

MDL-75268 - Create TinyMCE Premium plugins integration
MDL-78613 - Add source code formatting and styling
MDL-75963 - Add "Code highlighter" filter to display coding style properly
MDL-77979 - TinyMCE tool for preventing auto-linking
MDL-79066 - Add fullscreen button

Other major features - BigBlueButton

MDL-76710 - Add support for BigBlueButton Subplugins
MDL-78062 - Add backup support for BigBlueButton Subplugins
MDL-78960 - BigBlueButton Subplugin : allow action_url_addons to know about the instance

Other major features - Quiz and questions

MDL-76629 - Add sticky student name column in Quiz results table
MDL-74054 - Give teachers more flexibility to customise their own view of the question bank
MDL-72321 - Better searching/filtering in the question bank, so more flexible randomisation in quizzes
MDL-77218 - Quiz/questions preview: explanatory text that preview settings only affect the preview
MDL-77564 - Quiz display options: make it possible to completely hide the grade information
MDL-77127 - Allow students to hide the timer in a timed quiz
MDL-77745 - Anywhere a teacher views questions, display version information
MDL-78823 - Implement qbank plugin enabled/disabled events
MDL-77872 - Increase the width of Quiz editing page to improve usability

Other major features - Report builder

MDL-78117 - Create a custom report filter on context level
MDL-76471 - Create a report builder filter for "enrolment name"
MDL-76900 - Separate course participant enrol/role elements to new report entities
MDL-78879 - Support "not" / inversion of category conditions in report builder
MDL-75810 - Add tag support to badges custom report source
MDL-76902 - Create "Course categories" custom report source
MDL-78755 - Course participants report source should show active enrolments by default
MDL-77700 - Include user in custom report for comments on blog entries
MDL-76295 - Implement default report sorting in all report sources
MDL-78835 - Include custom fields in report group/grouping entities
MDL-78741 - Allow reporting/filtering on context path and parent
MDL-77532 - Include custom fields in cohort report entity
MDL-77061 - Add search and filter function in Manage Badges page
MDL-78532 - Create a new Web Service to retrieve system reports (core_reportbuilder_retrieve_system_report)
MDL-77067 - Indicate where report audiences are used in schedules
MDL-77614 - Reports shouldn't allow adding new entities whose name was already added

Other major features - Content bank and H5P

MDL-76338 - Enable content to be copied in content bank
MDL-77667 - Display full course name in content bank for selection
MDL-74773 - Contentbank: add notification when updating

Other major features - Accessibility improvements

MDL-75762 - Retain course page position when pressing back button from activity/resource
MDL-74869 - Activity icon colours should be SCSS variables so they are easy to override

Other major features - Usability improvements

MDL-71212 - Add course kebab menu with 'Collapse all' and 'Expand all' options to course index
MDL-78474 - Enable users to personalise the name for the resource "Text and media area"
MDL-76203 - Add support for BDI tag in HTML Purifier
MDL-74679 - Allow students to send Q&A forum post notifications with no editing-time delay
MDL-77793 - Remove the legacy theme selector
MDL-63759 - Replace geoIP lookup with openstreetmap
MDL-76982 - Add floating previous/next buttons to navigate book chapters
MDL-73464 - Focus on chapter content when navigating to next/previous Book chapter
MDL-76270 - Enable/disable group messaging in bulk
MDL-78184 - Improve user flow for connecting to a open badges backpack
MDL-44190 - Select current course by default when restoring a single activity from within a course or activity
MDL-78630 - A notification should be displayed when a user's account is locked/unlocked
MDL-78579 - Glossary should display number of entries pending approval
MDL-78503 - Web service tokens: Add a Last Access column at the table view
MDL-79042 - MathJax: Notify when we finish rendering all the equations

Other Highlights - Functional changes

MDL-48762 - Restrict access to course based on start and end date
MDL-40084 - Export related files in database activity export
MDL-73325 - Enable support for tagging badges
MDL-45452 - Completion report: Date format for "Excel-compatible format" CSV export updated to use Excel compatible format
MDL-75802 - A (teacher) user should not be able to un-enrol themselves via bulk un-enrolment
MDL-67186 - Add custom fields to groups and groupings
MDL-73839 - Allow using cohort enrolment when uploading course via CSV
MDL-78972 - Update 'Delete' colour in activity action menu
MDL-78341 - Improve the progress bar rendering to re-align with bootstrap
MDL-78175 - Move role renaming settings to a participant -> enrolments page

Other Highlights - For administrators

MDL-69489 - Enable Admins to restrict LTI Tools to specific Categories
MDL-77443 - Event Monitor: Course and activity name variables for event monitoring rules
MDL-78993 - Remove the $CFG->svgicons setting
MDL-67529 - GDPR: Option to filter which courses are included in data requests
MDL-78312 - User selectors: add an 'exact match only' option
MDL-77260 - Make it easier to find a specific component in event monitoring tool
MDL-78468 - Remove the legacy theme settings enabledevicedetection and devicedetectregex
MDL-79090 - Enable and disable scheduled tasks from the CLI
MDL-71421 - Move php-sodium recommendation back to requirement
MDL-78132 - Improve the workflow for creating badge backpack
MDL-76104 - Add Moodle filters support to user tours
MDL-78019 - Log every time a user deletes a file from the draft area

Other Highlights - Mobile

MDL-79242 - Improve the UX for first time users of the Android app via the Google Play install referrer API
MDL-74263 - Enable guest access with password support on the app

Other Highlights - Performance

MDL-46279 - Refactor SCORM database schema to improve performance
MDL-78212 - Allow MySQL database driver to set MySQL options for MYSQLI_CLIENT_COMPRESS
MDL-77797 - Make LaTeX files cached public immutable so can be served by a CDN

Security improvements

MDL-54704 - SSL support for connection to Postgres and MySQL Database
MDL-67390 - Update password hashing to SHA-512
MDL-72622 - Support TLS connections for Redis
MDL-76656 - Web service tokens should be read-once
MDL-50160 - HTTP only cookies (cookiehttponly) default set to on and UI setting removed
MDL-67774 - Specify password peppers in config.php
MDL-53368 - Captcha available on login page
MDL-69958 - Support /.well-known/password-change requests from password managers
MDL-78801 - Add Auto logout settings for the mobile app
MDL-78698 - Deprecate random_bytes_emulate function
MDL-78571 - Media: Allow Vimeo do not track option
MDL-62401 - Embed YouTube videos with nocookie extension
MDL-75372 - Add logging for URLs which fail the cURL security helper blocking