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=4.4=
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Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.4 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[Moodle Workplace release notes|Moodle Workplace 4.4 release notes]].
Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.2 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[Moodle Workplace release notes|Moodle Workplace 4.2 release notes]].
 
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==Appearance and branding==
 
===Automatic branding enhancement for tenants===
== Learning Catalogue ==
<p>Generate shades of grey automatically based on the tenant primary colour, to reinforce the brand identity while avoiding disturbing the experience.</p>
<p>The [[Catalogue|Learning Catalogue]], also known as ‘Catalogue’, is a new enhancement that is a complete revamp of the course browse and search functionality in Moodle Workplace. It transforms the course discovery experience, ensuring convenience and individualised upskilling, and providing easier access to learning materials.
</p>Learning catalogue allows admins to configure which fields should be displayed and in which order. It also allows for the configuration of the filters.
 
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<h4 class="card-title">New setting</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Landing page</h4>
<p class="card-text">Use "Match gray tones hue with primary colour" to generate colours automatically</p>
<p class="card-text">Learning Catalogue's initial page, where learners can use the search box to look for something or select a category in the category selector to browse courses in that category and its subcategories.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Colours</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Category and search results</h4>
<p class="card-text">The shades of gray match perfectly with the tenant primary colour</p>
<p class="card-text">Contains a list of all courses matching the search criteria or in the selected category, with a list layout. Users can narrow down results using the filters on the left side.</p>
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===Advanced tenant appearance settings===
<p>Tenant branding now includes two more settings that were available in Workplace 3.11: Navigation bar and Primary button colours.</p>
<p>We have added more granularity to the permissions to change the appearance of the tenant, so advanced settings such as custom SCSS can be restricted to specific role</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Advanced tenant appearance settings</h4>
<p class="card-text">All these advanced settings are now in a new section at the bottom, only available to users with permissions to edit the advanced branding</p>
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==My teams and Team overview block==
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<h4 class="card-title">Quick filters</h4>
<p class="card-text">Allow users to sort and filter data quickly within the Team overview block, making it easier to find the information they need</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Full reports</h4>
<p class="card-text">Access to full progress reports for certification, program, and course reports provide a comprehensive overview of each team member's learning progress</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Live search</h4>
<p class="card-text">Allows users to search for specific items in real-time within the Team overview block.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Warnings for overdue learning</h4>
<p class="card-text">Provide notifications and reminders to users when they are falling behind on their coursework or certifications</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Team’s overdue learning warnings for managers</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Course information</h4>
<p class="card-text">The Team overview block in the My teams page now displays a warning when there are people with overdue learning to their managers. This notice includes a link to the corresponding report.</p>
<p class="card-text">Learners can use the existing Course Cover page to review all relevant information for the course, and enrol themselves into the course using any of the available methods</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Improved support for My teams in Workplace App</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Enabling the Catalogue</h4>
<p class="card-text">The new My teams page now includes information about learning and tracking in the Workplace App.</p>
<p class="card-text">If enabled, the Learning Catalogue replaces the standard functionality in Moodle LMS to search and browse course and categories</p>
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==Dynamic Rules enhancements and new features==
 
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<h4 class="card-title">Tenant allocation conditions</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Layout configuration</h4>
<p class="card-text">User allocated to tenant and User not allocated to tenant are now available as conditions in Shared Dynamic Rules</p>
<p class="card-text">Catalogue allows configuration of the different layouts and the category selector, to optimise it to the site contents and design</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Allocate to tenant action</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Field configuration</h4>
<p class="card-text">With this new action, users can be allocated to tenants in Shared Dynamic Rules</p>
<p class="card-text">All relevant fields in the course, including custom fields, can be added to the course cards. The order of the fields in the card is also configurable. Tiles and List views allow different configuration</p><p class="card-text"></p>
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<h4 class="card-title">End jobs</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Filter configuration</h4>
<p class="card-text">New action to end all jobs for selected users</p>
<p class="card-text">Catalogue allows configuring the the filters available and the order in which they’re displayed</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Learning plans</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Search methods</h4>
<p class="card-text">New action to assign users to learning plans</p>
<p class="card-text">Admins have different search methods all available: Simple and Extended. In extended search, admin can configure which fields are included in the search and sort them by order of priority</p><p class="card-text"></p>
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== Report Builder improvements ==
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<h4 class="card-title">Suspend allocations</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Condition and Filter by Cohort</h4>
<p class="card-text">New option to suspend allocations added to the existing actions to deallocate user from program and certification</p>
<p class="card-text">Added conditions and filters by cohort to all relevant report sources, so any data linked to the user can now be filtered by the cohorts to which the users belong</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">User profile field Dynamic Rules condition</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Tenant administrator audience</h4>
<p class="card-text">Added "department" to User profile field condition in Dynamic Rules</p>
<p class="card-text">Added a new "Tenant administrators" custom report audience</p></div>
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== Programs and Certifications improvements ==
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<h4 class="card-title">User first login Dynamic Rule condition</h4>
<p class="card-text">Now it’s possible to create automations based on user’s first login.</p>
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== Appointments enhancements ==
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<h4 class="card-title">Session list UI</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Users not allocated to certification component rule</h4>
<p class="card-text">New expandable UI for session details and bookings, with consistent navigation and design across activity modules</p>
<p class="card-text">The ‘Users not allocated to certification’ condition is now available in the Certification dynamic rules</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Activity completion</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Identity field filters</h4>
<p class="card-text">New completion criteria based on attendance</p>
<p class="card-text">Added filters for Programs and Certification system reports for all identity fields</p></div>
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== My Courses ==
== Other improvements ==
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<h4 class="card-title">Unified user report</h4>
<p class="card-text">Improved how hidden courses are displayed in the My courses and Program pages</p>
<p class="card-text">As part of our contribution to Moodle LMS, we have converted Moodle’s 'Browse list of users' to report builder and removed duplicate user list reports in Moodle Workplace</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">New catalogue settings</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Improved display of long strings in the launcher</h4>
<p class="card-text">Added new settings in the catalogue to disable de Program cover page and to hide the dates in Course cover page</p>
<p class="card-text">We improved the launcher layout to ensure better adaptation of tools with longer names to fit the UI space better.</p></div>
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== Migration enhancements ==
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<p class="card-text">Migration feature now supports import and export of Custom Reports using Moodle LMS native report sources.</p>
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=Other interesting features=
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<p class="card-text">New setting to lock shared department and position frameworks, so only users with the right permissions can manage jobs related with locked departments and position frameworks.
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<h4 class="card-title">Filters in Certificate PDF content</h4>
<p class="card-text">New setting to apply only allowed filters to the PDF content.</p>
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<h4 class="card-title">Support contact by tenant</h4>
<h4 class="card-title">Support multilanguage for appointment notifications</h4>
<p class="card-text">Now it is possible to configure the support contact information (support contact, support URL and availability) at a tenant level, so different tenant can have their own support contact settings</p>
<p class="card-text">Added [[Appointments#Support%20for%20multilingual%20notifications|support for multilingual notifications]] in the Appointment booking activity module.</p>
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Latest revision as of 07:54, 21 May 2024

4.4

Read on for Moodle Workplace 4.4 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle Workplace 4.4 release notes.


Learning Catalogue

The Learning Catalogue, also known as ‘Catalogue’, is a new enhancement that is a complete revamp of the course browse and search functionality in Moodle Workplace. It transforms the course discovery experience, ensuring convenience and individualised upskilling, and providing easier access to learning materials.

Learning catalogue allows admins to configure which fields should be displayed and in which order. It also allows for the configuration of the filters.

Catalogue - Landing Page.png

Landing page

Learning Catalogue's initial page, where learners can use the search box to look for something or select a category in the category selector to browse courses in that category and its subcategories.

Catalogue category and search results page.png

Category and search results

Contains a list of all courses matching the search criteria or in the selected category, with a list layout. Users can narrow down results using the filters on the left side.

Catalogue - Buy a course.png

Course information

Learners can use the existing Course Cover page to review all relevant information for the course, and enrol themselves into the course using any of the available methods

Catalogue - Settings - Enable Catalogue.png

Enabling the Catalogue

If enabled, the Learning Catalogue replaces the standard functionality in Moodle LMS to search and browse course and categories

Catalogue - Settings - Layout configuration.png

Layout configuration

Catalogue allows configuration of the different layouts and the category selector, to optimise it to the site contents and design

Catalogue - Settings - Layout configuration details.png

Field configuration

All relevant fields in the course, including custom fields, can be added to the course cards. The order of the fields in the card is also configurable. Tiles and List views allow different configuration

Catalogue - Settings - Filter configuration.png

Filter configuration

Catalogue allows configuring the the filters available and the order in which they’re displayed

Catalogue - Settings - Fields to search for keywords.png

Search methods

Admins have different search methods all available: Simple and Extended. In extended search, admin can configure which fields are included in the search and sort them by order of priority

Report Builder improvements

cohort-filter-condition.png

Condition and Filter by Cohort

Added conditions and filters by cohort to all relevant report sources, so any data linked to the user can now be filtered by the cohorts to which the users belong

tenant-administrator-report-audience.png

Tenant administrator audience

Added a new "Tenant administrators" custom report audience

Programs and Certifications improvements

Users-not-allocated-to-certification-component-rule.png

Users not allocated to certification component rule

The ‘Users not allocated to certification’ condition is now available in the Certification dynamic rules

filters-for-identity-fields.png

Identity field filters

Added filters for Programs and Certification system reports for all identity fields

Other improvements

unified-user-report.png

Unified user report

As part of our contribution to Moodle LMS, we have converted Moodle’s 'Browse list of users' to report builder and removed duplicate user list reports in Moodle Workplace

launcher-long-strings.png

Improved display of long strings in the launcher

We improved the launcher layout to ensure better adaptation of tools with longer names to fit the UI space better.

multilingual appointment notifications.png

Support multilanguage for appointment notifications

Added support for multilingual notifications in the Appointment booking activity module.