Release Notes
16th December 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.8
fixes bugs and security issues
8th December 2025
Automated Extensions now available
3rd November 2025
Portico Enrolments - New Suspended status
Blog post -
30th October 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.7
fixes bugs and security issues
Performance Improvements to Panopto block
Permissions model rewritten to resolve performance problem caused by Panopto integration during course rollovers
Course rollovers had been limited to running at night to mitigate this issue and are now back to running immediately
New Accessibility tool - Ally AI Alternative Text Assistant
29th September 2025
Improvements to infrastructure scaling
Combining Scheduled Scaling and Automated Scaling
18th September 2025
Groundbreaking improvements to Moodle Performance
Completely remove the need for Moodle to lock the user session - allowing multi tasking and reducing slowness generally
21st August 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.6
fixes bugs and security issues
4th July 2025
Marks Transfer expansion
3rd July 2025
Update Entra authentication configuration
match accounts in Entra based on samaccountname being the moodle username
account creation now done directly from sync with Entra, thus removing dependency on on-prem Active Directory
12th June 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.5
fixes bugs and security issues
STACK update to 4.9.1 from 4.8.3
The Accessibility tool is back
Blog post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2025/06/12/the-moodle-accessibility-tool-is-back/
The component grades report has been replaced by the Advanced Grading report plugin
17th April 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.4
fixes bugs and security issues
27th March 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.3
fixes bugs and security issues
Bug fix release
resolves an issue with test accounts not being fully deleted preventing new accounts being created
various bug fixes for Feedback Tracker
6th March 2025
Bug fix release
resolves an issue with Zoom activities erroring
small fixes for the Feedback Tracker
27th February 2025
Bug fix release
resolves inconsistency issue with Cadmus Moodle Assignment integration
small fixes for the Feedback Tracker
13th February 2025
Update Moodle to 4.5.2
fixes bugs and security issues
6th February 2025
STACK update to 4.8.3 from 4.8.1
23rd January 2025
Marking progress block on Dashboard - improvements
Added Turnitin and Quiz support
16th January 2025
Bug fixes
Resolves an issue with creating new Mediacentral embeds
Resolves issues with Marking progress block preventing Dashboard from loading
Resolves an error preventing access to the CBM grades report
9th January 2025
New feature - Marking progress block on Dashboard
New marking progress for staff showing required marking for up to 5 summative Moodle assignments. (Turnitin and Quiz coming soon)
Bug fixes
Turnitin marking progress count is now accurate in Feedback Tracker
View report as specific student in Feedback Tracker now displays deadline overrides accurately
Advanced Forum icon displays properly again
Activity description font size increased
Oversized Questionnaire icons back to normal size
2nd January 2025
Upgrade to Moodle to 4.5.1
12th December 2024
Update Moodle to 4.4.5
fixes bugs and security issues
Feedback tracker - redesigned staff configuration page
STACK update to 4.8.1 from 4.5.0
Improvements
Course Lifecycle block now provides a mechanism to unfreeze a course
Bug fixes
Fixes an issue with Feedback Tracker student view displaying grades from gradebook items set to be hidden
4th December 2024
CodeRunner Question Type
Miniguide - https://ucldata.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MoodleResourceCentre/pages/352714753
Blog Post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2024/12/04/assess-coding-with-moodles-coderunner-question-type/
12th November 2024
Bug fix
Fix an issue with embedded Lecturecast recordings following the launch of TinyMCE
7th November 2024
Switch to new TinyMCE editor
8th October 2024
Update Moodle to 4.4.4
fixes bugs and security issues
Feedback tracker - improved interaction with Assessment Categorisation
Implement the ability to select any assessment type from a dropdown menu
Implement the ability to select categorisation for Gradebook items
Bug fixes
Fix an issue with Grid Format orphaning/resetting number of sections to 1
Fix an issue with the performance of Workshop activities at scale
Fix an issue with Moodle Assignment preventing partial release of marks when anonymity is enabled
Update H5P addressing concerns with externally created content
26th September 2024
Bug fix
Feedback tracker date calculation off by 1 day
Grid Format completion progress colour scheme improvements
19th September 2024
New - Feedback Tracker and Assessment Categorisation
Marks Transfer - improvement
Support for transfer re-assessment marks (e.g. for LSA)
Performance fixes
Grader report should now load reliably in large courses
5th September 2024
Update Moodle to 4.4.3
fixes bugs and security issues
29th August 2024
Bug fix
resolves an issue with Custom Certificates issued incorrectly
infrastructure maintenance
22nd August 2024
Update Moodle to 4.4.2
fixes bugs and security issues
resolves an issue with Tab Topics
resolves an issue with single section view editing
25th July 2024
Upgrade to Moodle to 4.4.1
13th June 2024
Update Moodle to 4.3.5
fixes bugs and security issues
6th June 2024
Marks Transfer - improvements
Gradebook Grade Items and Grade Categories can now be selected as sources for Marks Transfer - Blog Post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2024/06/06/update-on-the-moodle-sits-marks-transfer-wizard/
25th April 2024
Update Moodle to 4.3.4
fixes bugs and security issues
25th April 2024
Update Moodle to 4.3.4
fixes bugs and security issues
18th April 2024
New Feature: Exam Guard
Bug fixes
Resolves an issue preventing Hidden Groups being used to restrict availability of activities
Resolves a couple of issues with the theme
Addresses a performance issue when creating activities in courses with large number of students & activities.
9th April 2024
STACK update to 4.5.0
18th March 2024
New: Marks Transfer integration
Miniguide - Marks Transfer
14th March 2024
Theme update
Theme update - blog post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2024/03/08/ucl-moodle-theme-update-thursday-14th-march/
Course Rollover - improvements
Course Rollovers now carry over the course repositories
Bug Fixes
resolves an issue with MyFeedback premature grade visibility
15th February 2024
Update Moodle to 4.3.3
fixes bugs and security issues
25th January 2024
Post-upgrade fixes
Pick up where you left off now displays the 4 most recently accessed course
External Tool activity returns to the Activity picker
resolves an issue with the Turnitin activity settings form showing unused parts
12th January 2024
Update Moodle to version 4.3.2 and post-upgrade fixes
fixes bugs and security issues
resolves an issue with edit activity sub menus not showing
resolves an issue with H5P
resolves an issue with random questions from sub categories
4th January 2024
Upgrade to Moodle 4.3.1
Blog post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2023/12/20/upgrade-to-moodle-4-3/
Please note important changes to LTI in 4.3 - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2024/01/08/changes-to-the-lti-external-tool-activity-type-in-moodle-4-3/
15th December 2023
Update Moodle to version 4.2.4
fixes bugs and security issues
7th December 2023
Feature release
Resolved an issue with hotquestion in read-only courses
Resolved errors in course rollovers
The Marks Transfer Wizard is ready for the second pilot ( wider rollout to be announced in 2024 )
9th November 2023
Performance improvement release
Resolved an issue with embedding quiz questions
Resolved an issue with Group submissions
Resolved an issue with Updating grades in the gradebook
A collection of performance improvements which should reduce waiting while multi-tasking (MDL-79615, MDL-79617, MDL-79618, MDL-79619)
26th October 2023
Bug fix release
Resolved an issue with the board activity
Quiz Statistics now re-enabled
19th October 2023
Update Moodle to version 4.2.3
fixes bugs and security issues
New Banner, navbar and course index - Blog post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2023/10/09/moodle-upgrade-and-course-format-ux-project/
Theme Accessibility fixes
Improvements to the performance of calculations of Quiz Statistics - remains unavailable but will be re-enabled soon.
14th September 2023
Scaling, caching, infrastructure and performance optimisations
No visible impact but a big release to ensure Moodle 4 runs well at the start of the Academic Year. Years of effort in one line.
1st September 2023
Rollover configuration changes
Bulk rollover is available again
Advanced Forums (hsuforum) are now retained during rollovers
18th August 2023
Update Moodle to version 4.2.2
fixes bugs and security issues
Resolves an issue with the rollover of images in the Grid course format
Finally resolves all permissions issues with the "Pick up where you left off" block
Hidden courses are now shown in the "Pick up where you left off" section of the Dashboard
Increased validation of the auto-suggest of module deliveries during rollover
10th August 2023
Bug fix release
Improved the display of PDF icon for URL activities
Fixed bugs in the Course Category navigation and associated dropdowns
Fix a bug with the Sharing Cart settings being displayed horizontally
27th July 2023
Upgrade to Moodle 4.2.1
Blog post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2023/07/27/ucl-moodle-has-been-upgraded-to-moodle-version-4-2/
The Accessibility tool will no longer be supported on UCL Moodle after the Moodle upgrade on the 27th July 2023. The Digital Learning Environment team investigated installing and updating the tool, but it was simply not compatible with the new UCL theme. There are a range of freely available tools to customise the look and feel of webpages, including Moodle. For example, it is possible to customise font size easily in Safari and Chrome browsers under their respective browser settings. Third party extensions can also provide a range of colour customisations, for example the Chrome Dark mode reader extension. There are also various ways to customise colour settings in your operating system. The Digital Learning Environment team will be working closely with the digital accessibility team to promote these and other alternatives to the accessibility tool.
25th July 2023
Update STACK to version 4.4.4
7th July 2023
Update STACK to version 4.3.11 from 4.3.7
5th June 2023
Update STACK backend engine to new infrastructure
Switch from maximapool to goemaxima
27th April 2023
Update Moodle to version 3.11.14
fixes bugs and security issues
reduced exposure to search engine indexing
28th March 2023
Update Moodle to version 3.11.13
fixes bugs and security issues
fixes an issue with Lecturecast accounts
7th February 2023
Course Lifecycle
addressed permissions of the lifecycle block to ensure it is available to staff but not available to students
23rd January 2023
Update Moodle to version 3.11.12
fixes bugs and security issues
full fix of LTI credentials issue (revert MDL-76478, revert MDL-74814, revert MDL-76679)
Course Lifecycle
adjusted freeze delay to 12 weeks
5th January 2023
Moodle fixes
resolves an issue preventing account merging
early fix for LTI credentials being populated silently with user password - (MDL-76478)
addresses an accessibility issue with the shading of hidden resources
Course Lifecycle - Read-Only (made available 9th January 2023)
Blog post - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/digital-education/2023/01/05/moodle-lifecycle-block-course-read-only/
Miniguide - M30i - Making a Moodle course Read-Only with Course Snapshot
24th November 2022
Update Moodle to version 3.11.11
fixes bugs and security issues
19th September 2022
Update Moodle to version 3.11.10
fixes bugs and security issues
Course Rollover - improvements
when rolling over from 2020 and previous years, the suggested alignment will now be for a 2022 delivery by default
12th September 2022
Cloud based Authentication to Moodle go-live
25th August 2022
Update Moodle to version 3.11.9
fixes bugs and security issues
Fixes a bug with Atto auto-saving & corrupting data - MDL-74766
fix for Report menu click hijack - revert MDL-70753
Course Rollover - improvements
Bulk Rollover Tool at Category level - Miniguide: M30h - Bulk rollover for Moodle courses (category administrators only) (feedback phase - will be enabled more widely 5th September)
Fix for rollover report acknowledge tick box (VLE Team only)
10th August 2022
Course Rollover - improvements
retired LTI tools can now be filtered out during rollover
Role assignments override are now kept in rollover
Custom grade ratings are now kept in rollover
SITS Module cache now refreshing weekly
empty course ID now allowed
automated test coverage
auto-suggest now considers queued rollover requests to avoid naming clashes
improved clash avoidance of backup files
19th July 2022
Update Moodle to version 3.11.8
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