Important Notes for 3.5 Clients
If you are upgrading to this release from 3.5, we recommend you look at the major features made available in Moodle 3.6, Moodle 3.7, Moodle 3.8 and Moodle 3.9.
Purpose: This is a maintenance release that addresses issues brought up by Dual Code clients. It also includes Moodle 3.9.5 and 3.9.6.
Release Date: March 29, 2021
See also:
Highlights
- HCE-3112 - Ability to initiate a touch command on all users
- HCE-3581 - Log activity completions in the Learning Record Store
- HCE-3686 - Collection of the "duration" field is now in the "Dual Code" section of the course settings
- HCE-3844 - Grid course format available by default
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- HCE-3895 - System configuration check to ensuring readiness when integrating to Epic Systems' EMR
- HCE-3901 - The "Learning Record in another course" condition in the course completion criteria looks up learning records in the Learning Record Store
- HCE-3909 - New theme based on "Adaptable" theme supports a flexible front page layout
- HCE-3936 - The "Progress Report" is renamed to "Compliance Summary" and now available as a block
- HCE-3948 - Courses available in programs can be restricted in the manual enrolment method (multi-site only)
- HCE-3981 - Ability to export / import theme settings
- HCE-4039 - Filter parameter in the 'Learning Records' report allows users to find learning records for users who were deleted
- HCE-4078 - The site associated with a program can no longer be changed (multi-site only)
General Fixes and Improvements
- HCE-2760 - Suspend bulk user actions unenrolls and re-enrolls users from programs and courses
- HCE-3797 - Program notifications on day "0" are not sent
- HCE-3987 - Legend in progress report always visible even if the "Status" column is invisible
- HCE-3850 - Scheduled user upload tasks take a very long time
- HCE-3944 - Administrators can't see all users in the 'Time Spent in Activities' report
- HCE-3966 - Footer contains separate links for User Guides and Release Notes
- HCE-4026 - Conditionally visible fields not being saved during a user upload
- HCE-4027 - Downloading logs for all users consumes too much memory and freezes the download
- HCE-4033 - Scheduled user uploads may skip days
- HCE-4062 - Program and cohort business rules do not support the authentication (e.g. "auth") field
Deprecated Features
- HCE-3688 - The "Payroll" report is deprecated
- HCE-3794 - Flash is disabled by default
- HCE-4090 - The "Attendance" activity is deprecated
- HCE-4090 - The "Quickmail" block is deprecated
- HCE-3690 - The ability to dock blocks by default for new users is deprecated
- HCE-3693 - Circular activity completion restriction (where an activity hides itself if it was completed) is deprecated
- HCE-3844 - The course formats "advancedtopics" and "advancedsingleactivity" are deprecated and replaced with "topics" and "singleactivity"
- HCE-3901 - The "Completion of other courses" condition in the course completion criteria is deprecated and replaced with the "Condition: Learning Record in another course" condition
Premium Services
The following section addresses new features, improvements and bug fixes for premium services.
Database Replication Services
- HCE-3142 - Documentation to integration to Tableau Desktop Business Intelligence
- HCE-3962 - Ability to export custom report to different SFTP servers
Performance Appraisal System
- HCE-3025 - Adding an appraisal form with a duplicate 'ID number' displays ambiguous error
- HCE-3331 - Performance Appraisal System form builder does not always open the right block
- HCE-3894 - Employees' comments are not being rendered in the feedback blocks in appraisals
- HCE-3942 - Users are being emailed overdue notifications by the Performance Appraisal System even though their appraisal is locked
- HCE-4011 - The state of appraisals is now included in the Performance Appraisal System report
- HCE-4012 - New settings can control which default and optional fields will appear in the Performance Appraisal System report
- HCE-4013 - Custom user profile fields of type "date" are now rendered as a proper dates in the Performance Appraisal System report
Web Conferencing System
- HCE-4133 - Upgrade BigBlueButton to version 2.2.36 (see release notes)