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Moodle 4.0 Resources for Faculty

Category Filtering in Question Bank not persistent

  1. identified: 9/24/24

  2. categorization of issue: bug fix

  3. status: in development at Moodle Global HQ

  4. When adding Quiz questions from the Moodle Question Bank, selected category filters do not persist when users browse 2 or more pages within the chosen category. The global Moodle development team is aware of the issue, and they are investigating possible solutions to be included in newer Moodle versions. Question Bank categories with fewer than 21 questions are unaffected by this issue; as an interim solution, instructors are encouraged to group their questions into smaller Categories.

Grader Report unable to accept grades higher than an activity's Maximum Grade

  1. identified: 9/30/24

  2. categorization of issue: bug

  3. status: fixed in future Moodle versions

  4. Our Moodle site allows instructors to enter grades that exceed the Maximum Grade value associated with the activity. However, a bug in our current version of Moodle prevents the entering of such grades in the Grader Report. This issue does not affect the Single View report or the grading interface in the Assignment activity; instructors are encouraged to use Single View and the Assignment grading interface to enter such grades until the next Moodle upgrade, when the issue is expected to be resolved.

Course Format selection setting missing for instructor role

  1. Identified date- 4/30/24 - Resolved 

  2. Categorization of issue (bug fix) - solution found (errant conflict from a now deprecated set of instructions that were merged into the branch. Removed. 

  3. The Course Format options in Course Settings were visible to administrator accounts but not to Instructor roles

  4. Moodle 4 is configured to allow for 3 types of course format (Topics, Weekly, Social). The instructor role contains the correct permissions to view this function but can’t. Troubleshooting has revealed that this is potentially a bug introduced with Moodle v. 4.3 - patch was applied. 

Security Fix

  1. Identified date: ongoing

  2. Categorization of issue (bug fix, ongoing maintenance)

  3. As reported vulnerabilities are identified in the Moodle product, ongoing analysis and development occurs to determine if it is necessary to apply an immediate patch, if a fix can be incorporated into ongoing weekly maintenance, or if a change can be deferred to another regularly scheduled update.

  4. Currently the approach to LATTE is to make minimal changes but to attend to anything that could cause system instability. In Moodle the approach is currently to defer changes to larger updates, except for any serious security vulnerabilities.