Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. The Moodle website itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demo Site or read the latest news at Moodle Buzz.

Highlights

• Dealing with unexpected changes to grades after upgrading to Moodle 2.8
• Adjusting weights when extra credit item is present causes unexpected behaviour
• Changing the maximum grade of items with calculation to the value different from 100

Functional changes

• Gradebook export now respects aggregate only non-empty grades for percentage and letter
• Atto: Clean the html even if submitting the form when Atto is in html view mode

API changes

• sync_users must trigger event coreeventuser_updated

Security issues

• A number of security related issues were resolved. Details of these issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.

Fixes and improvements

• Upgrading assignments in 2.7/2.8 works even when conditional access is used
• Connection to a hub from behind a proxy server
• Enrolled users page no longer displays sorting by fields that are not used in user identity
• After deleting a quiz, its question categories and questions remain in the database
• Fixed gradebook UI inconsistencies in Internet Explorer
• The course overview block can now be added to Dashboard
• Display Wikimedia repository thumbnails (caused by the change in Wikimedia API)
• Fixed error in gradebook singleview after a module has been uninstalled
• Messaging contacts paging bar no longer expands and overlaps other text
• User unenrollment is now working with IMS Enterprise
• SOAP web service now works with token
• Fix coursename and enrolment icons in category combo on Frontpage
• Site default language should be set as the language for new users
• Grade to pass no longer throws an error when a decimal point separator is used
• Added missing new line separator in plain text e-mails from the forum
• The activity completion report in a course correctly shortens headers when multi language filter is used
• Added missing version bump after risk bitmap change in MDL-49941
• Fixed missing parameter error when editing files in wiki