Moodle Workplace new features
This feature is part of Moodle Workplace™, which is available through Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers only.5.2
Read on for Moodle Workplace 5.2 highlights. Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle Workplace 5.2 release notes.
Learner-led growth through clear pathways
Workplace 5.2 makes structured learning visible and self-serve in the Learning Catalogue, so learners can move beyond individual courses and engage with the full pathways their organisation has built for them.
Programs in the Learning Catalogue
Learners can now browse, search, and enrol in full Programs directly from the Learning Catalogue, gaining access to a complete set of related courses in a single step rather than enrolling course by course. Programs sit alongside courses as first-class items, making structured learning pathways fully discoverable and self-directed.
Featured Learning and curated recommendations
Administrators can promote key Programs in the Catalogue to guide learners toward priority skills, roles, or time-sensitive training. This makes it easier to direct attention to high-impact learning without relying on assignment alone.
Improved search experience
The Catalogue now uses a single, more powerful search across courses and Programs. The legacy simple search has been retired in favour of the extended search, which supports custom fields, categories, tags, and trainer filters with consistent ranking. Existing sites are automatically migrated during upgrade.
A Catalogue built to grow with you
The Learning Catalogue has been re-architected so it can scale with your organisation and support new types of learning content over time, while reducing duplicated effort for L&D managers.
Define key fields once and reuse them across courses, Programs, cohorts, and other entities that use custom fields. This keeps information consistent and cuts down on duplicate configuration as your learning catalogue grows. This capability comes from Moodle LMS 5.2.
Revamped Catalogue settings
The Learning Catalogue settings page has been reorganised into clearly separated sections for courses and Programs, making it easier to configure each independently. The Learning Catalogue icon has been removed from the Workplace launcher for a more streamlined experience.
Flexible price field configuration
Any custom field can now be selected to display pricing in the Learning Catalogue, instead of relying on a field with a fixed price shortname. Administrators have the freedom to model pricing in the way that best fits their organisation.
Extensible Catalogue foundation
A new underlying item API supports courses, Programs, and future content types in a consistent way. The Catalogue is now built to accept additional content over time, allowing developers to introduce new item types without re-engineering the core experience.
Improving the everyday platform experience
Day-to-day interactions in the platform have been polished so that learners, managers, and administrators spend less time navigating the system and more time on their actual work.
Site Details page
A new dedicated page brings key site information together in one place, including the current Workplace version (with an indicator of whether it is supported) and the number of active users. Administrators have a single entry point for instance-level information and a foundation for future licence details.
Clearer Program experience
Help boxes on Program pages have been updated to match the new design used elsewhere in the platform, and items blocking course progression inside a Program are now linked, helping learners jump straight to what they need to complete next.
Smoother Catalogue experience
A series of refinements make browsing more consistent and responsive: the filters sidebar has been resized and its mobile breakpoint adjusted, card layouts work correctly when item images are disabled, tile and list views have been cleaned up, and action bar corners are now consistent.
Login experience improvements
The login page has been refined after the rebase to 5.2 to give users a clearer first impression, and the login link in the navigation bar now adjusts its colour automatically against custom tenant navigation backgrounds so it stays readable in any theme configuration.
