Moodle Workplace new features

This feature is part of Moodle Workplace™, which is available through Moodle Partners only.

3.11

Read on for Moodle Workplace 3.11 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle Workplace 3.11 release notes.

Report Builder Audiences and Schedules

This release includes a new interface for Audiences and Shedules, making possible to grant access to report based on cohorts and system roles in addition to the audiences based on Departments and Positions.

Schedules can now be defined more easily just selecting an report audience.

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  New Audiences UI

  The audiences UI has been completely refactored making it easier to introduce new audience types following the same approach as in Dynamic Rules conditions and actions. There are three new types of audiences available for system roles, cohorts and manually added users

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  New Scheduling

  Following audiences, Report Builder scheduling has been refactored too. Now you can just pick any existing audiences as recipients to easily schedule a report for them.

Audience types

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  Job

  With this redesigned type of audience is possible to give access to a report to users in specific departments and/or positions

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  Cohort

  Use this type of audience to give access to a report to all members of a cohort

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  Manually added users

  Use this type of audience to select manually the users you want to give access to a report

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  System role

  Use this type of audience to give access to a report to all users with a specific role assigned

New My Learning and My Teams blocks

Learning Overview and Teams can now be added as standard blocks to the dashboard, and can combined with the existing settings to disable the Learning and Team tabs to bring more customisation to the Workplace dashboard.

Both blocks can be added now to any region in the dashboard.

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  My Learning

  This block keeps all the functionality of the Learning tab: show all courses, programs and certifications for the user, with two different views and filters.

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  My Teams

  This block keeps all the functionality of the Teams tab: show people reporting to the user, with users and job details and relevant information about completion and overdue or expired learning.

SAML2 in Workplace

In this release, we've completed the first stage towards supporting different per-tenant configuration for one of the most used authentication plugins in the Workplace sector: SAML2. Workplace 3.11 improves SAML2 compatibility making it ready for multi-tenancy implementation which will be added in 3.11.1

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  SAML2

  Workplace 3.11 is compatible with the next [auth_saml2] version that will be released soon.