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 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.

CLAMP will soon be releasing Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.3, which fixes an issue with TinyMCE not displaying in text fields. We hope to have this release out by the 1/28/2011.

The fix for this problem is straight forward and involves updating a few lines of /lib/editor/tinymce.js.php; details can be found in this Redmine Development thread.

Update: We’ve released Moodle 1.9.9+LAE v1.1.4, which fixes this problem. We skipped over 1.1.3 for strictly logistical reasons.

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

The following tracker items need votes/support from Moodle Hack/Doc participants:

• MDL-11537: Checkbox value always set to 1 no matter what you set in the addElement function
• MDL-22928: Make “role renaming” options in course settings Advanced to avoid confusion
• MDL-22931: On Category settings page, rename “Grade Item” to “Category Total”
• MDL-9376: Q and A forum – editing time
• MDL-22933: Wiki does not handle forward slashes in the top-level page correctly
• CONTRIB-2162 Questionnaire not allowing students to see results