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=3.11=
=4.0=
Read on for Moodle Workplace 3.11 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Workplace_3.11_release_notes Moodle Workplace 3.11 release notes].
Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.0 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Workplace_4.0_release_notes Moodle Workplace 4.0 release notes].
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== New Workplace 4 UI ==
== Report Builder Audiences and Schedules ==
<p>We have brought to the Workplace theme all the great UX improvements in Moodle LMS 4.0: the new navigation, footer, styles and course format.</p>
 
 
<p>This release includes a new interface for Audiences and Schedules, making possible to grant access to report based on cohorts and system roles in addition to the audiences based on Departments and Positions.</p>
 
<p>Schedules can now be defined more easily just by selecting a report audience.</p>
 
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<h4 class="card-title">New theme</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">New Audiences UI</h4>
<p class="card-text">Workplace 4.0 new theme brings all UX improvements from Moodle LMS 4.0: the new navigation, footer and styles.
      <p class="card-text">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 <strong>system roles</strong>, <strong>cohorts</strong> and <strong>manually added users</strong></p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Login page</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">New Scheduling</h4>
<p class="card-text">Login page has been redesigned in line with Moodle LMS.</p>
      <p class="card-text">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.</p>
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=== Audience types ===
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<h4 class="card-title">Workplace Launcher</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">Job</h4>
<p class="card-text">Workplace launcher is now more scalable and now it is possible for plugins to add their own items.</p>
      <p class="card-text">With this redesigned type of audience is possible to give access to a report to users in specific departments and/or positions</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Admin pages</h4>
[[File:Report Builder Audiences - Cohort.png|600px]]
<p class="card-text">All workplace admin pages have new look with more actions available from inside the individual entities.</p>
      <h4 class="card-title">Manually added users</h4>
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      <p class="card-text">Use this type of audience to select manually the users you want to give access to a report</p>
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== New dashboard page ==
 
<p>By combining two new blocks ('In-progress courses' and 'New available courses'), the new dashboard page will guide users through their learning journey, showing which courses are in progress and which courses need to be started next. The dashboard is still fully customisable, so all blocks are still available if needed.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">'In-progress courses' block</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">Manually added users</h4>
<p class="card-text">This block shows all courses the learner is enrolled on and needs to be completed.</p>
      <p class="card-text">Use this type of audience to select manually the users you want to give access to a report</p>
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<p class="card-text">This block shows all courses that are available for the learner, so they can start working on them right away!</p>
      <h4 class="card-title">System role</h4>
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      <p class="card-text">Use this type of audience to give access to a report to all users with a specific role assigned</p>
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== New learner journey ==
== New My Learning and My Teams blocks ==
<p>The process of navigating through courses and programs is polished to the max! Learners have a clearer understanding of their learning path and what is required from them at each step.</p>
 
<p>Learning Overview and Teams can now be added as standard blocks to the dashboard, and can be combined with the existing settings to disable the Learning and Team tabs to bring more customisation to the Workplace dashboard.</p>
<p>Both blocks can be added now to any region in the dashboard.</p>
 
 
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      <h4 class="card-title">My Learning</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">My Courses page</h4>
      <p class="card-text">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.</p>
<p class="card-text">New redesigned and extended 'My Courses' page in LMS 4.0 to include programs and certifications as well.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">New Program page</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">My Teams</h4>
<p class="card-text">Programs and sets have their own independent pages now. This makes the process much easier to understand for learners.</p>
      <p class="card-text">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.</p>
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== SAML2 in Workplace ==
<p>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</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">SAML2</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Program cover page</h4>
      <p class="card-text">orkplace 3.11 is compatible with the next [https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_saml2 auth_saml2] version that will be released soon.</p>
<p class="card-text">Learners can now see what a program is about before accessing it. Later on, this information is available in the 'Information' tab.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Course cover page</h4>
<p class="card-text">Similar to programs, courses now have their own cover page. This page shows relevant information about the course to the learner before accessing it, and it’s available in the 'Information' tab.</p>
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== Custom pages ==
== Other interesting features ==
<p>This new feature allows site administrators to create pages for different audiences and customise them using the same blocks available for dashboard customisation. </p>
 
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      <h4 class="card-title">New activity completion UI</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Create pages for different audiences</h4>
      <p class="card-text">Moodle Workplace course format activity completion UI has been updated following the new UI introduced in Moodle 3.11</p>
<p class="card-text">It's easy to set up a custom page using positions and departments from the 'Organisation structure' feature (exclusive for Moodle Workplace).</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Global and Tenant-only pages</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">Departments and Positions UI for a very large number of nodes</h4>
<p class="card-text">Admins can create custom pages at a site level or for a tenant only.</p>
      <p class="card-text">Organisation Structure UI now supports hierarchies with a very large number of nodes: the parent for a department or position now can be edited in the form and the drag and drop has been disabled when there are too many nodes</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Dynamic rules condition for Competencies</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Easy to customise</h4>
      <p class="card-text">With this new condition, now is possible to define automations based on competencies using Dynamic Rules.</p>
<p class="card-text">Custom pages are editable in real time, and all changes are immediately visible to their audience. All blocks available in the dashboard are available for custom pages.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Reports for everyone</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">Appointments Booking completion based on booking</h4>
<p class="card-text">Combine this feature with 'Report' blocks (exclusive for Moodle Workplace) to create pages full or relevant reports.</p>
      <p class="card-text">Now it's possible to define completion criteria for Appointments based on session booking.</p>
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== New 'My teams' page ==
<p>This is a 'Custom page' (see above) found in Moodle Workplace out of the box! It contains the new 'My team' block, designed so managers and team leaders can easily keep track of their teammate's learning process.</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Disable live data in custom reports editing</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">'Team overview' block</h4>
      <p class="card-text">Live data can now be disabled in custom reports editing for performance reasons. This is especially relevant to very large Workplace installations with massive data sets</p>
<p class="card-text">The 'Team overview' block displays all teammates of managers or department leads and their current learning progress.</p>
    </div>
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<h4 class="card-title">Full reports</h4>
      <h4 class="card-title">Accessibility toolkit</h4>
<p class="card-text">Managers and department leads can check full reports on their teammates learning with the new 'Certification', 'Program' and 'Course progress' reports.</p>
      <p class="card-text">Moodle Workplace 3.11 supports the [Accessibility_toolkit|Accessibility toolkit]] recently introduced in Moodle 3.11</p>
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=3.11.1=
Read on for Moodle Workplace 3.11.1 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Workplace_3.11_release_notes#3.11.1 Moodle Workplace 3.11.1 release notes].
== Per-tenant dashboards ==
<p>Now it’s possible to define a specific dashboard for each tenant with the same editing capabilities Moodle already implements in the core Dashboard. Thanks to this, tenants administrators will be able to manage their tenant’s dashboard and reset the configuration for users in the tenant</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Overdue learning at a glance</h4>
    </div>
<p class="card-text">Now it is easier to see at a glance if anybody in the team has any overdue learning thanks to the red dot and the 'Overdue' badge.</p>
  </div>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Tenant dashboard page</h4>
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      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
<h4 class="card-title">Program progress overview</h4>
    </div>
<p class="card-text">Redesigned program progress overview report in line with the new program page.</p>
  </div>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Create tenant dashboard</h4>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Link tenant dashboard</h4>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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== Other interesting features ==
== Multi-tenant SAML2 ==
 
<p>[https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_saml2 auth_saml2] now supports per-tenant configuration in Workplace.</p>
 
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      <h4 class="card-title">Configure SAML2 services per tenant</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Branded Apps per tenant</h4>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
<p class="card-text">The new multi-tenant mobile settings not only improve the multi-tenancy support in the Workplace app but also makes it possible to have branded Apps for individual tenants.</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Additional individual per-tenant settings for SAML2 authentication method</h4>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Locking user fields on a per-tenant basis</h4>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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==Configure different user profile fields per tenant==
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<h4 class="card-title">Conversion of custom reports</h4>
<p>We have extended multi-tenancy support in user profile fields to allow the definition of different user profile fields per each tenant.
<p class="card-text">Manual conversion of custom reports from Workplace 3.11 to Workplace 4.0, including the edition of legacy reports with the previous version of 'Report builder'.
</p>
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=4.0.5=
Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.0.5 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Workplace_4.0_release_notes#4.0.5 Moodle Workplace 4.0.5 release notes].
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<p class="card-text">Now it is possible to remove users from a cohort using Dynamic Rules</p>
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      <h4 class="card-title">Profile fields 2</h4>
<p class="card-text">Added a new setting to configure the default sort order in the "My Courses" page</p>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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==Other interesting features==
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      <h4 class="card-title">Report Builder Audiences and Schedules UI improvements</h4>
      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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      <p class="card-text">[[Text]]</p>
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Latest revision as of 09:24, 16 November 2022

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

4.0

Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.0 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle Workplace 4.0 release notes.

New Workplace 4 UI

We have brought to the Workplace theme all the great UX improvements in Moodle LMS 4.0: the new navigation, footer, styles and course format.

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New theme

Workplace 4.0 new theme brings all UX improvements from Moodle LMS 4.0: the new navigation, footer and styles.

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Login page

Login page has been redesigned in line with Moodle LMS.

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Workplace Launcher

Workplace launcher is now more scalable and now it is possible for plugins to add their own items.

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Admin pages

All workplace admin pages have new look with more actions available from inside the individual entities.

New dashboard page

By combining two new blocks ('In-progress courses' and 'New available courses'), the new dashboard page will guide users through their learning journey, showing which courses are in progress and which courses need to be started next. The dashboard is still fully customisable, so all blocks are still available if needed.

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'In-progress courses' block

This block shows all courses the learner is enrolled on and needs to be completed.

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'New available courses' block

This block shows all courses that are available for the learner, so they can start working on them right away!

New learner journey

The process of navigating through courses and programs is polished to the max! Learners have a clearer understanding of their learning path and what is required from them at each step.

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My Courses page

New redesigned and extended 'My Courses' page in LMS 4.0 to include programs and certifications as well.

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New Program page

Programs and sets have their own independent pages now. This makes the process much easier to understand for learners.

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Program cover page

Learners can now see what a program is about before accessing it. Later on, this information is available in the 'Information' tab.

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Course cover page

Similar to programs, courses now have their own cover page. This page shows relevant information about the course to the learner before accessing it, and it’s available in the 'Information' tab.

Custom pages

This new feature allows site administrators to create pages for different audiences and customise them using the same blocks available for dashboard customisation.

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Create pages for different audiences

It's easy to set up a custom page using positions and departments from the 'Organisation structure' feature (exclusive for Moodle Workplace).

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Global and Tenant-only pages

Admins can create custom pages at a site level or for a tenant only.

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Easy to customise

Custom pages are editable in real time, and all changes are immediately visible to their audience. All blocks available in the dashboard are available for custom pages.

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Reports for everyone

Combine this feature with 'Report' blocks (exclusive for Moodle Workplace) to create pages full or relevant reports.

New 'My teams' page

This is a 'Custom page' (see above) found in Moodle Workplace out of the box! It contains the new 'My team' block, designed so managers and team leaders can easily keep track of their teammate's learning process.

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'Team overview' block

The 'Team overview' block displays all teammates of managers or department leads and their current learning progress.

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Full reports

Managers and department leads can check full reports on their teammates learning with the new 'Certification', 'Program' and 'Course progress' reports.

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Overdue learning at a glance

Now it is easier to see at a glance if anybody in the team has any overdue learning thanks to the red dot and the 'Overdue' badge.

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Program progress overview

Redesigned program progress overview report in line with the new program page.

Other interesting features

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Branded Apps per tenant

The new multi-tenant mobile settings not only improve the multi-tenancy support in the Workplace app but also makes it possible to have branded Apps for individual tenants.

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Conversion of custom reports

Manual conversion of custom reports from Workplace 3.11 to Workplace 4.0, including the edition of legacy reports with the previous version of 'Report builder'.

4.0.5

Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.0.5 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle Workplace 4.0.5 release notes.

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Remove from cohort action

Now it is possible to remove users from a cohort using Dynamic Rules

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Default sort order in My Courses page

Added a new setting to configure the default sort order in the "My Courses" page