What is New Features on Moodle 3.1.2 Hosting ?

Moodle offers students and instructors a personalized dashboard listing courses and tasks, and collaborative tools including forums, wikis and group calendars. It lets you work with files stored in cloud services like Dropbox, and supports notifications and private messaging between users. It is available for multiple languages, supports open standards like Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) and Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), and works well with screen readers. Finally, it comes with an extensive plugins directory together with support from more than 60 worldwide partners.

Highlights

MDL-37250 – Lessons: save students attempts if they timeout
MDL-54977 – Fixed bug with navigation tree not working in some cases
MDL-50586 – Warn teachers about removing level 0 in rubrics as it leads to unexpected grades.
MDL-41174 – Update the calendar event when inline changing activity name or duplicating activity
MDL-33741 – Allow teacher to access course files in hidden categories using Server files repository in filepicker
MDL-55333 – Fixed error when trying to view/export feedback responses with over 60 questions using mariadb/mysql

Security issues

MSA-16-0022 Web service tokens should be invalidated when the user password is changed or forced to be changed

Fixes and improvements

MDL-55312 – Bugfix: Load timeout for modules: core/first occurs after purge caches
MDL-55229 – Bugfix: Meta Enrolment – Search for course produces error
MDL-55707 – Bugfix: Possible to get in “recalculating grades” infinite loop
MDL-55292 – Include tideways profiler along with xhprof for PHP7 profiling
MDL-54892 – Uninstall scheduled tasks when plugin is uninstalled
MDL-22183 – Prevent stats from running later and later – use scheduled task time only
MDL-47371 – Bugfix: The character & is displayed as ” & amp ; ” in book module
MDL-52544 – Resolved problems of Oracle driver in PHP7 environment
MDL-55246 – Bugfix: Unoconv fails on files with spaces in the name.
MDL-51078 – Add “All changes” option to the Action selector in report_log (was present in 2.6 and removed in 2.7+)
MDL-52105 – Remove CAP_PROHIBIT in manager role for capability ‘enrol/self:holdkey’
MDL-54847 – Allow students to insert HTML audio and video tags
MDL-55273 – Default setting for cookiesecure should be on
MDL-55520 – Assignment module no longer resets max grade to 100 during module editing
MDL-55245 – Attempting to select text in PDF annotation comments drags the comment box