Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project

Here’s a list of Moodle bugs and problems encountered during Moodle Hack/Doc Fest, Summer 2011 at Hampshire College. Please read them over and consider voting for them.

Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0

MDL-28008: separate course backups can become commingled under certain conditions

MDL-20245: grader preferences won’t save under certain conditions. Affects both 1.9+ and 2+

MDL-27931: Trivial, but worth fixing: inconsistency in the user upload form

MDL-27735: Yet more Q&A forum bugs

MDL-28082 auto-create grouping for each group created

MDL-13114: Include bulk course create and remove with Moodle through the use of CSV files

MDL-26657:  Hiding a Sticky Block Can Cause Other Blocks to Disappear

MDL-28223: Alphabetize Groupings drop-down list

Moodle 2.0

MDL-26350: File attachments are stored incorrectly when doing a “File Download” portfolio export from a forum

MDL-27156: File System Repository files limited by PHP upload_max_filesize limits

MDL-27242: Restrict Access by time as well as day

MDL-28080: Error on Oracle DB operations caused by placeholders longer than 28 chars

MDL-26967: Can’t disable My Private File on student role (possibly resolved by PULL-562)

MDL-28101: Bold and italics do not work with the NWIKI formatting

MDL-24120: login as procedure always log the (admin) user out

MDL-24398: ”Save changes” after uploading a file seems unnecessary and causes confusion

MDL-28151: High resolution images uploaded as resources are cropped.

MDL-27764: Can’t import topic summaries. This is an old bug from 1.9 which crossed into 2.0/2.1.

MDL-23520: ability to delete wiki pages in 2.0 and 2.1.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Hampshire University is a month away and we’re looking for suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community.

• Moodle 1.9 bug fixes
• Learning how to use Git for version control
• Demo site for Moodle LAE
• Further evaluation and testing of Moodle 2.0
• Planning Moodle 2.0 pilots
• Identifying and writing needed documentation for Moodle 2.0

Registration is now open for Moodle Hack/Doc Fest: Summer 2011 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This will be CLAMP’s eighth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest.  Visit the Hack/Doc home page for event details and the registration form.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest for Summer 2011 will be held Monday, June 27 through Thursday, June 30, 2011 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This will be CLAMP’s eighth Moodle Hack/Doc Fest.

We’ll be kicking things off on Monday, June 27 with our first-ever Documentation Sprint, in which we’ll focus on revising and publishing the documentation we’ve been working on for the last year. This is an optional event, but we hope folks will be able to join us.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest itself runs Tuesday, June 28 and runs through Thursday, June 30, 2011. Additional information, and a registration form, will be available April 1, 2011 at the event web site: http://www.clamp-it.org/events/moodle-hackdoc-fest-summer-2011/

Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.4 is available for download. This is a security release that backports fixes from Moodle 1.9.10 to Moodle 1.9.9. It supersedes the Moodle 1.9.9+LAEv1.1.1 and LAE v1.1.2 releases. It also incorporates a number of bug fixes and new features developed at Hack/Doc Fest VII at Furman University, and fixes a bug with TinyMCE 3.x that was introduced in LAE 1.1.2.

Visit the project page to learn more and download the code.

Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 is available for download. This is a security release that backports fixes from Moodle 1.9.10 to Moodle 1.9.9. It supersedes the Moodle 1.9.9+LAEv1.1.1 release. It also incorporates a number of bug fixes and new features developed at Hack/Doc Fest VII at Furman University.

Visit the project page to learn more and download the code.

The following Moodle 2.0 issues were identified at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Furman University in January 2011. Please review and vote for these issues in Moodle Tracker:

Critical Issues

• 2.0 gradebook moves grades information for unenrolled students to history table — opposite of 1,x behavior
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25718
• Upgrade fails for wikis with the same title
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25501
• META: Restore 1.9 backups into Moodle 2.0
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22414

Notable Issues

• Table of Contents links broken in Moodle 2.0 wiki
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25695
• Wiki Comments HTML Editor Broken
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25883
• In collaborative wiki, with separate groups, teacher cannot view group wikis
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25732
• Teacher listed in assignment grading (but not gradebook)
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25872
• The name of the first page in the wiki can not be changed
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-6488
  • (this could be a feature or a bug, but our sense is that you should be able to change the page name)

Third-Party Block & Module Issues

• Block: Quickmail – migrate to 2.0
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2014
• Update Scheduler Module for 2.0
  • http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2636

CLAMP is pleased to announce the release of Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 Beta 1. This is a beta release meant for testing only; it is not recommended for use on production systems.

• Code freeze was 5 p.m., Friday,  January 7, 2011
• Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 Beta 1 was released Tuesday, January 11, 2011
• Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 Final Release is scheduled for Wednesday, January 19, 2011

This version of the LAE incorporates a number of bug fixes developed at Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Furman University in January, 2011. We need help testing these fixes and verifying that they work for you. Feedback can be added as comments on this post or sent to Ken Newquist at newquisk@lafayette.edu.

The Development Committee will be meeting at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 17 to review any comments and give the go-ahead for the final release.

Note: We will be releasing a beta of Moodle 1.9.10+LAEv1.2 in late January which folds in the 1.9.10 upgrades from Moodle core. However, we recommend that people use the 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.2 release in their production Moodle instances (this release includes security fixes backported from Moodle 1.9.10) because we will not have had time to fully test the 1.9.10 code before the start of the spring semester.

During the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest pre-meeting on Tuesday, 12/21/10 we discussed evaluating Moodle 2.0. That in turn gave  rise to a question of triaging evaluation tasks — what’s most important to our campuses? What’s most likely to break? What new features do we want to test?

Here’s our initial breakdown, based on Tuesday’s meeting. Please add your own suggestions and priorities as comments on this post.

Our goal is to assess the state of Moodle 2.0 and determine what documentation is going to be needed, what code must be upgraded, and offer suggestions on when to make the move.

A list of major changes and additions to Moodle 2.0 can be found on the Moodle Documentation web site:

• http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:DB_layer_2.0_migration_docs

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Furman University is a month away and we’re looking for  suggestions for bug fixes, documentation and new features for Moodle  that the community would like us to address. You can add your requests by making a comment on this blog post. You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community.

Here’s our short list of projects for Hack/Doc Fest:

• Evaluating what works — and doesn’t work — in Moodle 2.0, with a particular eye toward third party blocks, modules and themes as well as our own custom code.
• Identifying what new documentation is needed for Moodle 2.0.
• Fixing bugs in the Moodle Liberal Arts edition.
• Working on unit testing scripts to help automate testing new Moodle releases.