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Moodle 2 Release Schedule

On a weekly basis, updates are made to Moodle based on user feedback. All changes are approved by the VLE Team Change Advisory Board (CAB), which also meets weekly.

Below is a list of past changes made to Moodle. The weekly change window is Thursday mornings, 7-11AM.  During this time, Moodle is available (unless otherwise advised).

If you have any questions regarding the Moodle release schedule, please contact Service Desk.

17 May

  • Forums | Tutors will no longer be able to reply to News forum posts
  • Roles | The Enrolment Manager role will be created. This role will allow staff to enrol other staff as Moodle 2 users (lecturers, non-primary lecturers and tutors only)
  • Moodle performance | Changes will be made to Moodle 2 to enhance Moodle 2 performance
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10 May

  • Moodle performance | Changes will be made to Moodle 2 to enhance Moodle 2 performance

3 May

  • Quizzes | Change to switch any quizzes that have Full screen pop-up with some JavaScript security enabled to None in the Browser security settings

26 April

  • General | Moodle 2 disk space increased

19 April

  • Quizzes | A loophole in quiz 'secure mode' which appears in some themes will be corrected
  • Quizzes | Multiple alerts for restricted actions in popup quizzes will be prevented
  • Quizzes | Popup quizzes will only display in the popup window
  • Moodle performance | Collapsed topics issuing many restore requests will be prevented
  • Moodle performance | Long transaction sessions in Callista sync will be prevented
  • Moodle performance | Timing of sync modified to avoid peak usage times
  • Moodle performance | Statistics query performance will be improved
  • Moodle performance | Statistics will no longer run nightly

29 March

  • Blocks | The Library resources block will enabled, lecturers will be able to add it via the Add a block block
  • Callista |  Units created via the Callista block will now be searchable
  • Blocks | The Online users monitor block will be disabled
  • Lessons | When you add a Content page and/or Question page the button at the bottom of each page will now read Save page (regardless of which page is added)
  • Callista | Students will no longer be assigned multiple student roles. This in turn means that all students will only be allocated one column in the Gradebook

 22 March

  • General | The Feedback link in Moodle’s global navigation bar will be removed

14 March

  • Roles and permissions | The guest role will have view only access to Moodle. Guest role will no longer be able to interact in Moodle e.g. in discussion forums.
  • Roles and permissions | Authenticated user and visitor roles will no longer be able to view any unit content if they do not have a specified role in that unit e.g. Student, Lecturer, Tutor. 

07 March

  • Callista Block | Enrol staff link will take you to the Enrolled Users page 
  • Restore | When restoring, categories that you have access to can now be selected from a drop-down box, rather than having to search for them.
  • Backup | When importing backups in which the number of sections in the backup is greater than the number of sections in the current unit, the new sections will be automatically created rather than putting all content in the summary area
  • Backup | Lecturers can now download backups they have created
  • Attendance Block | Lectures can now create multiple sessions in the Attendance block

29 February

  • Roles | ServiceDesk will now be able to view information contained within the Callista block

15 February

  • General | Library link in the Global Navigation Bar will take you to the Library homepage instead of the Library Catalogue page
  • Roles | The Tutor role in Moodle will be able to switch roles to Student view

8 February

  • General | Email subject will display ampersand correctly
  • Callista Block | Enhancements will be made to Callista block. These include an at-a-glance summary of the linked offerings and students access dates.
  • Unit settings | When creating new units, the default availability will be 'This unit is available to students'. Default setting is currently 'This unit is not available to students'.

11 January

  • General | 'Need help?' and 'Feedback' links will be available in Moodle's global navigation bar

30 November

  • General | PDF documents will embed correctly regardless of which version of Adobe Reader you are using
  • Messaging | The ability to ttemporarily disable notifications will be removed
  • Feedback | The short answer response limit will be increased from five to fifty characters by default
  • Metacourses | Metacourses will be turned on for Faculty Administrators to enable at their discretion

23 November

  • Enrolments |  When mapping Callista cohorts, Moodle will ignore any students with a 'DUPLICATE', 'INVALID' and 'UNCONFIRM' enrolment status
  • Grades | Grades column will sort consistently
  • General | Moodle to be upgraded to version 2.0.5 on 23 November

17 November

  •  General | Copyright block can no longer be removed by administrators.
  • Theme | Participants and Enrolled users lists|will now have a username field to search users.
  • Messaging | Jabber messaging options have been removed from My profile settings as they do not apply.
  • Forum | New users will have forum tracking set to highlight new forum posts by default.
  • Theme | Resources and Activities with coloured text will now dim when hidden
  • General | Students will be able to see feedback when assignment category 'No grade' is selected

3 November 2011 

  • Theme | Question bank will have Monash styling applied.
  • Theme | Grades subheadings (such as ‘View’ and ‘Grader Report’) will have Monash styling applied.
  • Theme | Enrolled Users will display alternate colours for each row. This will make identifying individual students easier.
  • Theme | Enrolled Users will display inactive user names and details with a strikethrough font. This will make inactive users more easy to identify.
  • Grades | Grades and comments columns will sort consistently. 
  • Enrolment | Enrolment Keys will be configured to allow lecturers to use enrolment keys for self-enrolment. Currently this option is only available to Faculty Administrators.
  • Theme | Footer will have links added to Copyright, Privacy, CRICOS and Monash University. The links in the footer ‘You are logged in as’ and ‘Logout’ will be removed.
  • Theme | Footer links that have been visited will remain white. Currently links turn blue after being clicked on making them blend into the background and therefore difficult to identify.
  • Assignment | Default maximum upload size will be set to 100MB instead of 1MB. 
  • Roles | Helpdesk role in Moodle is currently unable to view certain files. Configuration changes will be made to allow the Helpdesk role to see all groups within Moodle and view the appropriate group content. This will allow the eSolutions Servicedesk to further assist students.
  • Messaging | The option ‘Unit creation request approval notification’ will be removed from the Messaging page as is currently a redundant option.

20 October 2011 

13 October 2011

  • General | Administrators can now download large backup files from Moodle.
  • General | Monash authcate username and ID numbers will be visible to lecturer in Moodle to assist in distinguishing between students with the same name.
  • General | Select text in Moodle will now by default align left rather than centre.
  • Images  | Warning message when uploading an image using the WYSIWYG editor now displays correctly. This warning message appears when a description (alt text) is not added when uploading an image.

6 October 2011

  • General | Faculty Administrators will no longer be able to enrol other users to the Faculty Administrator role (please contact the VLE to add additional Faculty Administrators)
  • General | Lecturers will have the ability to enrol other Lecturers, Non-Primary Lecturers and Designers into their Moodle unit
  • Assignments | Lecturers will be able to download all student submissions as *.zip and backup
  • Groups | The maximum number of users shown in the group selector tool will increase from 100 to 2000
  • General | moodle.vle.monash.edu.au URL will redirect to the correct URL moodle.vle.monash.edu
  • Activity | When access times have been set in the "Restrict access" section of an activity, they will display according to the user's timezone
  • Forum | Unread discussion forum posts will now fit within the Moodle Window

22 September 2011

  • General | Lecturers will be able to choose from the entire selection of backup options for their unit
  • General | Moodle 2 Server time will be corrected and will no longer be 3 minutes out of sync
  • General | Non-primary lecturer role will be added to Moodle 2: This role gives users the same permissions within Moodle as the current lecturer role but is not visible to students and staff

7 September 2011

  • Callista Block | Will now capture all versions of Callista unit offerings rather than just the selected version
  • General | Lecturers and Administrators will be able to backup units larger than 500MB (bug fix)
  • General | Spell checker in HTML WYSIWYG editor will now work
  • Messages | When searching for users in "Messages", units with long titles in the drop down menu will now display appropriately and fit in the Monash Moodle Theme

24 August 2011

  • User account | Default timezone will be set to Melbourne, Australia (EST)
  • Activity | Feedback Module's adaptaive feedback for Matching Quiz questions
  • Activity | Ensure that Lesson Module text says inside borders correctly
  • Theme | Ordered lists fixed to display correctly
  • Theme | Header bar fixed to display correctly in Mozilla Firefox v3.0-3.5
  • Callista block | Student pop-up display fixed user list correctly
  • File picker | Ensure that users can upload files from file picker in Internet Explorer 9

18 August 2011

  • Roles & Permissions | The Guest role will be enabled at Unit level.
  • Forums | The time a student has to re-edit a forum post will be reset to the default time of 30 minutes. Please note, this change will not affect lecturers ability to re-edit their forum posts at any time.

11 August 2011

  • Forum | Ensure that Forums that are using Read tracking have the unread posts showing up correctly.

4 August 2011

  • Resources | Descriptions for all resources will be made optional
  • Resources | URL display option - enable URLs to be opened in a new window
  • Copyright   | Copyright banner will only be displayed on the my home and unit home page

28 July 2011

  • Theme fixes | Header bar accepts long unit names
  • Theme fixes | Book Module font has been adjusted to a larger size.
  •  Theme fixes | Calendar, submit button and html block display issues and additional browser related issues
  • Profile Settings | Removal of mandatory city/town, country and description field in user profile
  • Callista integration | enrolment of users by username rather than ID number