Moodle Mobile 3.2.0 release notes

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Moodle Mobile release notes > Moodle Mobile 3.2.0 release notes

Release date: 12th December 2016

Complete list of issues for Moodle Mobile Moodle Mobile 3.2.0.

New features

All new features and improvements require Moodle 3.2 except where indicated.

Assignment: Teachers can grade submissions, even if they are offline, using numerical points, scales, outcomes and feedback comments. Advanced grading methods such as rubrics are not yet supported.
Auto-login: Users are automatically logged in to the site in a browser when coming from the app.
Grades: A new grades link in the side menu provides quick access to course grades.
Sign-up: Users can create new accounts using email-based self-registration. CAPTCHA and custom profile fields are supported.
Notifications: A new notifications preferences screen lets users decide how to be alerted.
SSO support: Sites using SSO auth methods such as CAS or Shibboleth no longer require the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin.
Profile picture: Users can easily update their profile picture by taking a photo or choosing one from the photo library. (Moodle 3.1 onward with the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin)
Badges: Users can view their awarded badges in their profile. (Moodle 2.8 onward with the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin)

Submissions grading
Grades
Sign-up
Preferences
Profile picture
Badges

Improvements

Performance: Requests to the server have been greatly reduced, making the app faster and reducing data consumption. (Moodle 2.8 onward with the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin)
When connecting to a new site, the site name and logo are displayed in the login screen.
The ‘My courses’ screen has been redesigned to improve usability.
Assignments with submission statements are now supported.
Users can now change the password or complete missing fields in their profile when required.
Pinned forum discussions are now displayed correctly.
Discussion locking is supported.
Single simple discussion forums no longer show the author of the first post.
The size of the app bundle has been optimized, reducing it by 25%.

Fixes

Orphaned sections are not displayed any more.

Developers

Please refer to https://github.com/moodlehq/moodlemobile2/blob/master/upgrade.txt

Complete list of issues

New Feature

MOBILE-329 - Profile Picture could trigger a profile update page
MOBILE-1504 - Display a new "My grades" option in the Mobile app
MOBILE-1557 - Display the user badges in the user profile
MOBILE-1618 - Configure the mobile notifications within the app

Task

MOBILE-1705 - Support remote addons in user custom fields
MOBILE-1864 - Integrate the latests protractor test
MOBILE-1888 - Test video players and the Atto option
MOBILE-1894 - Phonegap build repository closed (change plugins)
MOBILE-1897 - Backport new Web Services in 3.2 to local_mobile

Sub-task

MOBILE-1851 - Add outcome support to grading assignment
MOBILE-1852 - Add feedback support to grading assignment
MOBILE-1853 - Add simple grading support to grading assignment
MOBILE-1855 - Add prefetch and offline grading features for assignment
MOBILE-1867 - Improve new assignments Look and feel
MOBILE-1871 - Filter submissions need to be graded
MOBILE-1878 - Add scale support on simple grading for assignments
MOBILE-1879 - Exit without saving warning on assignment feedback page.
MOBILE-1884 - Allow user to grade from web on advanced grading

Improvement

MOBILE-1598 - Enable users to sign up or register an account in the app
MOBILE-1657 - Course actions under course are very tight
MOBILE-1676 - Allow submitting assignments with submission statement
MOBILE-1687 - Hide author of the forum post if forum_is_author_hidden() advises so
MOBILE-1802 - Allow to install or move the app to an external storage system (SD)
MOBILE-1806 - Auto-login support in the app
MOBILE-1808 - The app new sites checking process should use tool_mobile_get_public_config when available
MOBILE-1809 - Use gradereport_user_get_grade_items for quiz final grade calculation when available
MOBILE-1813 - Allow the user to change the password or add the missing profile fields via the app - auto-login
MOBILE-1840 - Add missing config.json available settings
MOBILE-1848 - Add a new config.json property (forcedefaultlanguage)
MOBILE-1860 - Retrieve the private token when log-in via browser/embed to SSO sites (tool/mobile/launch.php)
MOBILE-1862 - Speed-up the my courses page options loading
MOBILE-1863 - Support custom URL schemes in InAppBrowser
MOBILE-1872 - Calculate course modules status in courses via core_course_check_updates
MOBILE-1881 - Load first discussion instead of new discussion when accessing a forum in tablet
MOBILE-1882 - Display pinned discussions
MOBILE-1889 - Disable error reporting by default
MOBILE-1904 - Do not display the keyboard when going to a conversation from the messages screen
MOBILE-1905 - Replace the app icons for iOS
MOBILE-1907 - Handle window.open inside iframe
MOBILE-1911 - Update Ionic to version 1.3.2
MOBILE-1913 - Add filtered message text on messaging
MOBILE-1914 - Improvements in assignment grading
MOBILE-1915 - Fix subtitles positioning

Bug

MOBILE-1559 - core_course_view_course not working right in the app
MOBILE-1749 - Hidden site home blocks are shown in the app
MOBILE-1794 - on login, error message 'Cannot find data record in database table course' is displayed.
MOBILE-1825 - Moodle App 3.1.2 stil shows orphan activities
MOBILE-1838 - Redirect to another site fails if the current site has remote addons
MOBILE-1839 - Can edit submission status is not using the correct field
MOBILE-1844 - Re-apply "Pass parameters to login/token.php only in browser"
MOBILE-1854 - Redirect to My Courses if Site Home is empty not working in Moodle 3.2
MOBILE-1856 - Launch the assign viewed event in the app so completion is triggered
MOBILE-1859 - Fix the bottom padding in iOS
MOBILE-1868 - Error when editing online text of an submission created via "Add a new attempt based on previous submission"
MOBILE-1876 - Fix the login typo and chage the Credentials by log in
MOBILE-1880 - Addons in My Courses have a border top in Android
MOBILE-1885 - Connect to Moodle help text is incorrect
MOBILE-1887 - Links in error modals override the app
MOBILE-1893 - remote addons using directives throw security warnings
MOBILE-1895 - remote addon build process bundles unit test files into addon.js
MOBILE-1896 - $mmaCourseCompletionHandlers isEnabledForUser and isEnabledForCourse are not working as expected
MOBILE-1899 - Input text disappear when scrolling with keyboard open
MOBILE-1906 - Detecting updates in a section isn't reflected in the list of sections
MOBILE-1909 - Course handlers don't show spinner on PTR
MOBILE-1916 - Italic text is not italic in quiz in the Mobile app

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