Open LMS EDU 4.4 MP2 Release Notes

Laura Martin

Updated April 10, 2025 12:11

Release Schedule

Sandbox Upgrade: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET
Production Upgrade: Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM local datacenter time

Release Date

Thursday, April 10

North America, Central America, South America (Virginia, USA datacenter): Clients will be upgraded according to their timezone:
- Eastern, Amazon, and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM EST
- Central Timezone: April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CST
- Mountain and Pacific Timezones: April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM PST
South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM BRT
EMEA (Frankfurt datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM CET
APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM SGT
Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): April 10, 2025, at 12:30 AM - 4:30 AM AEDT

Non-Production Sites Upgrade Schedule

To improve the quality of the upgrade process and shorten the production upgrade window, non-production (sandbox) sites will be upgraded on Thursday, March 27, 2025, between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST.

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

Major updates

Upgrade to Core 4.4.6

As part of this maintenance pack, the Open LMS team upgraded the platform to versions 4.4.5, 4.4.6. These upgrades include essential fixes, improvements, and security patches to enhance the platform's performance and security.

For the full releases notes from Moodle.org, please visit:

Open LMS Highlights

Snap new side navigation menu

In Snap, a new side navigation menu is now available, providing quick, one-click access to key elements:

Messages Drawer – A dedicated messaging drawer is now available, allowing users to communicate with others on the platform while keeping the panel open anywhere on the site. Stay connected effortlessly without interrupting your workflow.
Block Drawer – Blocks have been moved to a more visible and accessible position within Snap, making them an integral part of your course and site content.
Snap Feeds – Initially introduced in the personal menu and later expanded across the entire site, Snap Feeds are now part of this compact side navigation, ensuring a consistent and seamless experience.
Administration Menu – The administration menu has been integrated into the new navigation, providing a more cohesive and efficient way to manage your site.

This update enhances usability, streamlines navigation, and improves overall accessibility within Snap.

Please visit: Snap’s New Side Navigation: Key Educational Tools Are Just One Click Away

New: Assignment Activity Now Supported in Centralized Content Management (CCM)

We’re excited to announce that the Assignment activity is now supported in Centralized Content Management (CCM), allowing administrators and instructors to create, manage, and distribute assignments across multiple courses more efficiently.

Key Capabilities:

✅ Create a Master Assignment – Set up a single Assignment and use it as a template for multiple courses.

✅ Deploy Replica Assignments – Distribute copies of the Master across different courses while maintaining consistency.

✅ Easily Update Assignments – Modify a Master Assignment, and apply changes to all linked Replicas.

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New Payment Gateways in eCommerce

Our eCommerce solution now supports two additional payment gateways: PayPal and Authorize.net . These new options provide greater flexibility for processing transactions, enhancing the payment experience for both administrators and end-users.

Deprecation of the Legacy Personal Menu in 4.4 MP2

As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance navigation and user experience, we are deprecating the Legacy Personal Menu with the 4.4 MP2 release

What's Changing?

The My Courses link, which previously displayed the Legacy Personal Menu, will now take you to the enhanced My Courses page. This updated page provides:

A complete list of your enrolled courses.
Multiple filtering options, giving you greater control over how your courses are displayed.
Access to the Snap Feeds drawer, which includes different notifications and quick links for: Grading updates, Forum posts, Messages, Deadlines.

This transition aims to improve course navigation, making it easier to find and manage your courses and stay up to date with important activities.

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Updated plugins

Name	Component	Version
Custom certificate	mod_customcert	`2024042208`
Intelliboard Legacy	local_intelliboard	`2025030604`
OpenSesame Connector	tool_opensesame	`2025013000`
Intelliboard Pro	local_intellidata	`2025022601`
Smowl	block_smowl	`2025030600`
Motrain	block_motrain	`2025010801`
Dropout Detective	local_aspiredu	`2025021700`
Plagiarism turnitin	plagiarism_turnitin	`2025030501`

Minor fixes and improvements

Fix Version	Description
4.4 MP2 Hot fix	SimpleSAMLPHP vulnerabilities Backport 4.4.7 Security fixes to EDU 4.4+1 Problem 315672 - qbehaviour_lockcorrect does not work with Essay questions Backport 4.4.6 security fixes to 4.4+1 Problem 315538 - Grade submissions block - drop-down menu to populate final grades does not work Error reading from data base - User report historical data tab in postgres sites Backport 4.4.5 security fixes and improvements to 4.4+1 Remove Filtering of Report Builder Sources in CPANEL Snap: CCM Adjustments PLD: ‘Show All’ missing from some dropdowns in rule tab and history tab Problem 313620 - Snap: Show hide activity produces an error with Allow stealth activities disabled Some more random PhpUnit failures (that delay our builds, 6 hours at a time) PLD 4.4: The save button remains disabled despite having all the necessary information Problem 313432 - Open grader setting show all activities doesn't stay Snap - "Highlight" behavior appears when not expected Problem 312344 - Snap: Group Override due dates do not display when there are multiple applicable overrides Problem 311988 - PLD Rule Firing For Unenrolled User Problem 311598 - theme_snap: Menu option to change section highlighting appears incorrectly kow: Add gitlab repository to split process Tiny AI Assistant - Issue in AI Assistant’s dropdown for some multi-text box activities 4.4 Deprecations - EDU 4.3 Regress -Snap, The purge caches message is not displaying
4.4 MP2	Snap - Sidebar: The table of contents of an activity book isn't visible fluentd logstore availability CCM: Improvements in appearance and flow Pull fix to EDU: ORE - Course Modules report source does not capture complete with pass/fail grade Snap: The message drawer doesn't open on some pages when clicked Kow: Stop autointegration if version.php delta exists and testsuite usage is detected Mixpanel - Create Groups option doesn't work with mixpanel enabled Update Filestorage Purchased Storage Connection with Deck36 API Snap Revamp [New drawers design] - Sidebar menu border cases Build the Logins per Year Report Snap/Tiles: Course Footer Misalignment and Element Disorder in Edit Mode 315217 - Sort name column in PLD does not 'stick' 315163 - Forum: Snap's Discussion page does NOT display the Course Fullname within the Course Image banner Tiny AI Assistant - Appearance and Behavior Issues Snap - Deprecated method since 4.3 Snap - page resource does not descend/ascend with videos CCM: Check for strange behavior in cron when creating replicas and propagating changes Snap: User is not redirected to the right section after saving an existing activity in a course with weekly format Openaiquestions improvements mod_hvp: Rename content_type field. It has been added as reserved word in Aurora MySQL version 3.06.0 Problem 313005 - Snap - Blank h1 tag in course page Update Open LMS release for MR 4.4 MP2 Reg 4.4: Snap - actions are not visible when hover in is performed Snap - Change the string for highlighted sections in Snap Reg 4.4: Snap, Quiz - Quiz pages don't show category color when hovered Reg 4.4 - Snap -Dropdown Menus Overlaps with Page Header Cpanel - Disabled course format plugins are listed on admin/plugins Reg 4.4 - Snap Course Reuse pages improvements Snap - Asset Error: When you want to duplicate an activity without course:manageactivities permission Snap - Adjust the Help Icon (Tooltip) Problem 298697 - Change the order of names in Open Reports based on language pack Accessibility improvements VPAT - CCM Tooltips Accessibility improvements VPAT - CCM Images, Icons, Headings Accessibility improvements VPAT- CCM Links, Modal dialogs, General elements Snap feeds block - Removal of personal menu functionality from Snap

Removal of the mdl_log Table in 4.5

As part of our ongoing efforts to optimize database performance and reduce unnecessary storage usage, we plan to remove the mdl_log table in the Open LMS 4.5 upgrade. This table can be significantly large, and since there is no longer a scheduled task to delete old logs, it may consume excessive storage.

The mdl_log table stores logs for the legacy logstore, which has been deprecated and was removed from core Moodle in version 4.2. Open LMS has not logged any data to this table since EDU 4.3 Release.

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