Moodle Workplace rolling release notes

Moodle Workplace™, available through Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers only, helps you deliver effective corporate training and professional development, and share knowledge across your organisation.

4.4 rolling

See our Moodle Workplace 4.4 rolling new features page in the user documentation for an introduction to Moodle Workplace 4.4 with screenshots.

Learning Catalogue

The Learning Catalogue, also known as ‘Catalogue’, is a new enhancement that empowers employees to embrace self-directed learning. The catalogue offers diverse learning opportunities, providing convenience and personalised upskilling tailored to each employee's needs. With easier access to learning materials, employees are encouraged to take charge of their career and professional development, aiding L&D managers in crafting customised development plans.

• 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.
• Fully configurable. Allows admins to configure which fields should be displayed and in which order. It also allows for the configuration of the filters.
• Public access. Organisations can offer their courses publicly with the new Learning Catalogue
• Easy learning browsing. Learners can discover new courses using the search box or by browsing course categories and subcategories.
• Custom filters. Learners can narrow down results using catalogue filters, available for all built-in and custom course fields.
• New catalogue search API. Allows connecting more search methods and can potentially be configured to use external search engines.
• Search methods. The Learning Catalogue offers two built-in search methods:
  • 'Simple search' option operates similarly to Moodle LMS's course search, scanning course names, short names, and summaries.
  • 'Extended search' expands functionality by including additional fields and features with configurable priority settings.

Organisation structure enhancements

• New 'Manually assigned manager' option available on Custom Pages and Custom Reports audiences, allowing content customization for designated managerial roles within an organisation.
• Support for Manually assigned manager assignments in user upload feature. Administrators can import manual assignments from external systems using CSV files, seamlessly integrating data into the platform.
• New option to add jobs in People tab. HR managers can now add new jobs directly using the “+New Job” button from the People tab, allowing job creation and assignment to multiple employees without switching pages.

Report Builder enhancements

• Added condition and filter by Cohort. Conditions and filters by cohort are added to all relevant report sources, enabling data filtering by user cohorts.
• New audience. Added a new 'Tenant administrators' custom report audience.
• Default report visibility for Tenant admins. Allowed the 'View all custom reports' capability for the tenant administrator role to ensure tenant admins can view all custom reports by default.

Program and Certification enhancements

• Users not allocated to certification rule. The ‘Users not allocated to certification’ condition is now available in the Certification dynamic rules.
• Filters for all identity fields. Added filters for all identity fields in programs and certification system reports.

Program and Certification enhancements

• Unified user report. As part of our contribution to Moodle LMS, we have converted Moodle’s 'Browse list of users' page to report builder and removed duplicate user list reports in Moodle Workplace.
• Improved display of long strings in the launcher. Enhanced the launcher layout to better adapt tools with longer names to fit the UI space.
• Support multilanguage for appointment notifications. Added support for multilingual notifications in the Appointment booking activity module.
• Added unique CSS class to Custom Pages to allow specific Custom Pages to be targeted via custom CSS

Fixes

Fixed multiple accessibility issues in several components in the scope of the WCAG 2.1 AA accreditation:

• Fixed an accessibility issue that caused a redirection to 'My Courses' when using the tab key to skip to the main content from the program overview page.
• Removed unnecessary alt text for each course image in the program page, improving the accessibility for screen readers.
• Fixed an accessibility issue in My Teams block causing that the context popup which appears on focus/hover of the "i" icon could not be dismissed without moving the focus.
• Fixed an accessibility issue in the "Organisation Structure" filter on "My Teams" page, adding a missing fieldset to provide additional context to the purpose of the input fields.
• Fixed an accessibility issue in Appointment customised notification by including explanation of the placeholders.
• Fixed an accessibility issue on the Capacity field validation in the new appointment form where the value was replaced automatically without providing an error message to the user.
• Fixed an accessibility issue with the title not changing when navigating from the program page to a program set page.
  

4.4.1 rolling

Moodle Workplace 4.4.1 is based on top of Moodle LMS 4.4.1 and has all the new features of the core version. In addition, it contains all exclusive features from Moodle Workplace.

Improvements

• Added the option to copy the URL of custom pages directly from the page editing interface
• Implemented support for 'Textarea' user profile fields to be used in dynamic rule conditions
• Introduced a new feature allowing users to create a new user directly from the People tab
• Added visual highlighting to indicate active filters in the Learning Catalogue
• Introduced a new feature to create new courses directly from the program content editing interface
• Added a placeholder for the username to dynamic rule notifications action
• Implemented new functionality that allows users to hide and customise labels for fields and filters within the Catalogue
• Added a link to associated certifications on the Active Programs page

Fixes

• Various accessibility fixes related to the ongoing effort to achieve WCAG AA accessibility accreditation for Moodle Workplace.
• Fixed a bug that prevented ICS files attached to appointment event booking emails from being imported successfully
• Fixed an issue where roles with the tool/tenant:manage capability could not access the "Browse list of users" report

4.4.2 rolling

Moodle Workplace 4.4.2 is based on top of Moodle LMS 4.4.2 and has all the new features of the core version. In addition, it contains all exclusive features from Moodle Workplace.

Improvements

• Added an option to manage Certification and Program allocations for managers in the Team Overview block
• Added an option to highlight courses in the Course Catalogue
• Added CSS classes to enable custom styling of checkbox fields in the Catalogue
• Added the "Date Certified" field to the user management section for Certifications
• Added filters for checkbox custom fields in the Catalogue
• Mark organisational structure dynamic rules as not available if no related entities are present
• Allow tagging dynamic rules to improve classification and filtering
• Optimised course image loading in the Catalogue to ensure thumbnails are used instead of full-size images
• Create a user tour for tenant selector
• Added a new session availability filter for appointment sessions
• Added the ability to create unlisted custom pages
• Improve the department and position selectors in case of large number of elements

Fixes

• Add support for separate group mode to Appointments activity module
• Resolved an issue where the "Select all" checkbox in the People tab was not properly excluded from bulk actions
• Fixed an issue where the custom completion was not retained during backup and restore processes
• Addressed an issue where custom profile field values not stored in the database were not being captured by dynamic rules
• Fixed an issue where tagged Workplace elements did not respect the disabling of tags or specific areas
• Added the ability to reset programs when using dynamic allocations
• Fixed an exception that occurred when viewing the certification report
• Reset Airnotifier key when upgrading from LMS to Moodle Workplace to avoid notifications failures
• Fixed an issue where courses did not appear on the catalogue main pages if the user had access to some top-level categories but not all

4.4.3 rolling

Moodle Workplace 4.4.3 is based on top of Moodle LMS 4.4.3 and has all the new features of the core version. In addition, it contains all exclusive features from Moodle Workplace.

Improvements

• Added functionality to showcase featured courses in a dedicated section on the Learning Catalogue landing page
• Added an option to specify the certification date when marking a certification as complete for a user
• Added global actions in the Team Overview block, enabling managers to allocate their team members to programs and certifications
• Improved app integration and support for the Learning Catalogue through optimised web services

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the course summary was truncating when the summary label was enabled

Security fixes

• 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.