Open LMS EDU 4.1 Release Notes

Laura Martin
Updated

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Release Video

Release Date

July 13, 2023

  • North America, Central America, South America (Virginia, USA datacenter): Clients will be upgraded according to their timezone:

    • Eastern, Amazon, and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: July 13, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM EDT

    • Central Timezone: July 13, 2023,  at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM CDT

    • Mountain and Pacific Timezones: July 13, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM PDT

  • South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil datacenter): July 13, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM BRT

  • EMEA (Frankfurt data center): July 13, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM CEST

  • APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): July 13, 2023, 2022, at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM SGT

  • Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): July 13, 2023, at 12:30 AM - 6:30 AM AEDT

Non-Production Sites Upgrade Schedule

We will upgrade non-production (sandbox) sites on Thursday, June 15, 2023, between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST.

Non-production upgrades occur during North American business hours to improve the quality of the upgrade process and shorten the production upgrade window. 

Downtime will be required for your production and non-production sites during this window.

 

Upgrade to Core 4.1.3

As part of this major release, the team in Open LMS upgraded the platforms and reviewed the code of versions 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, adding the corresponding fixes, improvements, security patches, and important backports.

Release Notes
For the full releases notes from Moodle.org, please see:

 

Recommended browsers:
Moodle™ is compatible with any standards compliant web browser. We regularly test Moodle™ with the following browsers:

Desktop:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Edge

Note: Moodle™ 4.1 does NOT support Internet Explorer 11.

  • Mobile:
  • MobileSafari
  • Google Chrome

For the best experience and optimum security, we recommend that you keep your browser up to date.

 

Open LMS Mobile App version upgrade

We have updated our mobile App to Moodle™ 4.2.0 version for Android and IOS devices.

You can find it in the Android and Apple stores available for download.

 

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Moodle™ Highlights and how they look in Open LMS

This new version of Moodle™ has improvements in usability, user experience, and navigation, check below how tese Moodle™ highlights look in Open LMS:

 

Database UX improvements

Useful start page Choice of presets Approval status
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A useful new start page makes it easier to set up your Database activity. Three new Database presets are available. Approval status is more visible and easy to manage.

 

 

Gradebook UX improvements

New Grade summary report  User report Extra Grade letters
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Access a useful new Grade summary report. Collapse categories for clearer viewing Increase the number of elements in the grade scale


Question bank improvements

Inline editing New columns
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Edit a question title directly from the Question bank. New "Modified by" and "Last used" columns


Custom reports enhancements

Additional report sources
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Several extra Custom report sources are now available to improve reporting.

 


New in integrations

Guest access to BigBlueButton

Force a language in activities
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If enabled by admin, teachers can invite external guests into the BigBlueButton room. Teachers may force a language in an activity as well as in the course.


Open LMS Highlights

Programs plugin integration

For this major release, we have included the Programs plugin, a powerful tool to define sets of courses with customizable order completion criteria. This feature was originally designed for Open LMS WORK and from now on is going to be available for Open LMS EDU users.

The main goal of this integration is to reduce the time of course management and increase productivity at the institution for all learners.

 

Snap view Boost view

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You can get more information about the plugin and its capabilities by checking the link below.

https://support.openlms.net/hc/en-us/articles/6784858300445-Programs-Overview

 

In-App Admin User Onboarding functionality for Programs

With the new Open LMS 4.1 release, we are introducing a new in-app user onboarding for admins! Making it easier than ever for admins to discover and utilize new Open LMS features, and share feedback in the process.

We want to help our Admins to better understand new functionalities, receive direct product feedback, and with it, define what we need to improve in our features.

For this 4.1 release, we will deploy these in-app onboarding flows for our new plugin Programs, and it will only be visible to admin users that are subscribed to the Open LMS Data telemetry initiative.

If you currently are not subscribed to this initiative and want to be, please fill out this short form.

 

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Download PLD triggered rules history

A new PLD functionality was included for this release: in the PLD history tab, at the bottom of the rules list, an “Export“ option is now available to download the complete history of triggered PLD rules as a file. Teachers and administrators will be able to download this history as a file in CSV, XML, JSON, XLSX, PDF, or HTML format.

 

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We have added Brickfield as part of our product portfolio as our new accessibility toolkit so that every client can upgrade from the core Brickfield functionality to the paid version (tool/bfplus). Admins can now request the upgrade to Brickfield Plus directly on the platform.

 

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Accessibility improvements

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Updated plugins

New core plugins

Name

Component

Version

Grade summary

gradereport_summary

2022112800

TinyMCE

tiny_autosave

2022112800

 

tiny_equation

2022112800

 

tiny_h5p

2022112800

 

tiny_media

2022112800

 

tiny_recordrtc

2022112800

Editor

editor_tiny

2022112800

Journal

datapreset_journal

2022112800

Proposals

datapreset_proposals

2022112800

Resources

datapreset_resources

2022112800

 

New Programs plugins

Name

Component

Version

OLMS Work Programs

block_myprograms

2023051500

 

enrol_programs

2023051504

 

certificateelement_programs

2023051500

 

 

Updated plugins 

Name

Component

Old Version

New Version

SAML2 Single sign-on

auth_saml2

2022111700

2022111701

Attendance

block_attendance

2022031800

2022112500

Checklist

block_checklist

2022111900

2023041400

 

mod_checklist

2022111900

2023041400

Openlms Checklist

gradingform_checklist

2023041100

2023041101

Products Catalog

block_products_catalog

2023030100

2023042600

Reports

block_reports

2022060600

2022060601

Intelliboard

local_intelliboard

2023013000

2023041300

Intelliboard Inc.

local_intellicart

2023030100

2023050900

 

intellicartpayments_authorize

2020051300

2023042100

 

intellicartpayments_stripesca

2023021400

2023031700

 

enrol_intellicart

2023013000

2023041300

 

auth_intellicart

2023021500

2023050900

Intelliboard next

local_intellidata

2023030601

2023042000

RecordRTC for Atto

atto_recordrtc

2022041900

2022112800

Personalized Learning Designer

local_pld

2023041100

2023041102

Attendance

mod_attendance

2022083108

2023020107

Dialogue

mod_dialogue

2022032500

2022112400

Lightbox Gallery

mod_lightboxgallery

2022102800

2023031000

Questionnaire

mod_questionnaire

2021062301

2022092201

Workplace certificate

certificateelement_border

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_code

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_date

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_digitalsignature

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_image

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_program

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_text

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_userfield

2022082400

2023042500

 

certificateelement_userpicture

2022082400

2023042500

 

tool_certificate

2022082400

2023042500

Completion Progress

block_completion_progress

2022042000

2022112800

Grid Format

format_grid

2022072203

2022112604

Collapsed Topics

format_topcoll

2022041701

2022112601

Group choice

mod_choicegroup

2022092202

2023013000

Workplace course certificate

mod_coursecertificate

2022082400

2023042500

Journal

mod_journal

2022091600

2023042400

Quizventure

mod_quizgame

2022030300

2022112200

xAPI Launch Link

mod_tincanlaunch

2018110100

2023041300

Zoom meeting

mod_zoom

2023021400

2023051900

Course catalogue

local_catalogue

2020121101

2023051500

Respondus lockdown browser

block_lockdownbrowser

2021102701

2022101101

 

quizaccess_lockdownbrowser

2021102701

2022101101

 

Plugins removed by Moodle™ 

Name

Component

Tracker

Replacement

Webservice xmlrpc

webservice_xmlrpc

[MDL-76052] Remove webservice_xmlrpc from core - Moodle™ Tracker

[MDL-76055] Replace xmlrpc extension in MNet by php library - Moodle™ Tracker

 

End of life of plugins

In this 4.1 upgrade, we deactivate the following plugins:

 

Security Fixes

Backport of core security fixes

  • MSA-23-0015 - Minor SQL injection risk in external Wiki method for listing pages

  • MSA-23-0016 - XSS risk on groups page

  • MSA-23-0017 - Minor SQL injection risk on Mnet SSO access control page

  • MSA-23-0018 - SSRF risk due to insufficient check on the cURL blocked hosts list


Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

Fix version

Issues

MR-4.0-MP2-HF1

  • Update Brickfield tool/bfplus strings and links

MR-4.0-MP2-HF2

  • Open Forum Discussion Subject text is overlapping on Mobile browsers

  • Description is displaying twice for Collab activities

  • Duplicated name Activity Questionnaire item

  • SafeAssign- do not reattempt deletion of not found submissions

  • Core patch from MDL-76016 - Goutte driver version bump (composer dependency)

MR-4.0-MP2-HF3

  • Backport 4.1.3 security fixes and security improvements to 4.0+2

MR-4.0-MP2-HF4

  • Calendar event table performance is slow

MR-4.0-MP2-HF5

  • auth_saml2 does not respect allowaccountssameemail setting

MR-4.1
  • CRON - generalexceptionmessage is thrown on Cron's execution
  • Checkbox of courses displays over category actions menu

  • Outcomes, “Unmapped quiz questions” table does not have correct data

  • Problems adding one or more background images to a custom certificate

  • Essaywiris renderer issue

  • Conduit Cohort user validation check incompatible with PostgreSQL

  • Theme_snap: Course Display design_mod_page when enabled does not render video links

  • Outcomes, Error reading from database in Coverage link

  • PLD-  Data error when an activity is deleted

  • In Snap theme the File resource doesn't accept the "Display" configuration.

  • Equations are displayed incorrectly in Page Activity preview in Snap

  • Placeholder strings in Snap for password/username do not accept spaces

  • Add indexes to improve performance of course deletes

  • Boost, tiles course format - Course index is not displayed

  • Fix deprecations of plagiarism functions to fix Turnitin tests

  • Update the icon of an LTI activity in each section (Custom icons)

  • Snap course cover image improvements

  • Admin SQL improvements

  • Snap AX - Fixes from the VPAT vendor

  • Snap, tiles course format - Dashboard features are not available in 4.1

  • Checklist grading: Forum support part 2

  • CLI script - SafeAssign invalid instructors

  • Conduit course synchronization with profiledata

  • Pull Programs into EDU

  • 'My Programs', 'Programs Catalog' quick links.

  • Allow Open LMS Language export tool to exclude core strings on export

  • Snap - Messaging drawer display in grader user report behavior should be reviewed

  • Version bump - PLD plugins for Work

  • New feature - Download PLD rule history (PLD legacy)

  • My Programs', 'Course catalog', 'Programs Catalog' quick links

Release problems identified

inner_build_course_cache, unexpectedly found non-versioned cache entry The "inner_build_course_cache" and "unexpectedly found non-versioned cache entry" errors are related to the internal caching system of the Open LMS platform. Caching is a process that helps improve the performance and loading speed of courses by storing certain data temporarily. However, in this case, an error has occurred during the caching process, resulting in certain courses not being able to load.
Missing Course Admin links with 4.1 upgrade The Reports tabs/links and Brickfield links are missing from the Course Administration menu as a result of the misnaming of the "report/editlicense" plugin in the backend.
SNAP - Single View unable to override grade; requires edit to be enabled The SNAP theme Single view, which controls the appearance and layout of Open LMS, is missing the "Turn editing on" button which is preventing bulk override, exclude, or insert grades actions.
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