New for administrators

If you're a Moodle admin, this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 4.5. If you'd like to see full details of the release with technical information, here are the Moodle 4.5 release notes. _

AI subsystem

Options for admins to add AI providers

Foundation stage of AI tools integration.

Text generation

Users with the relevant capability can generate text for course content.

Image generation

Users with the relevant capability can generate images for course content.

Summarisation

Users with the relevant capability can request content summaries.

Subsections

New setting: Subsections

From Appearance > Plugins, optionally enable subsections.

New subsections option in courses

Expandable subsections help learners better focus.

Site registration

New field: Organisation type

Add your organisation type when registering your site.

Plugins and AI usage

Information about plugins and AI usage will help inform future Moodle developments.

TinyMCE screen record

New option in TinyMCE

Optionally enable screen record from Text editors> TinyMCE > Record RTC.

Screen recording

Users with the appropriate capability can record their screen within the editor.

Assignment and Quiz admin settings

Disable saving question options.

Optionally disable the automatic saving of the previous question settings.

Optionally set grade type and scale defaults for assignments.

Selected questions in a quiz can be regraded.

Custom reports

Competencies report source

Competencies may now be selected as a source when creating custom reports.

Timezone and language

Timezone and language may be included in user reports.

And more...

Badges

Improvements to badges include smoother workflow and the ablity to have duplicate badges in a course.

Cohorts deletion

You can now select and bulk delete cohorts.