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Bug

• UNSWSRV-1151 users: Implement restrictions on bulk actions for send email and download as csv
  Affects Students - Removes all actions that this role can perform on the Participants list.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-1128 theme_remui: Various bugs and improvements
  UNSWSRV-1127 theme_remui: Implement indexes to get user courses efficiently
  Affects System - Improves the loading and display of courses at a category.

• UNSWSRV-1126 grade: Remove extra character and add formatting to search by id number
  Affects Staff - Improves the alignment of the Single View Gradebook report.

Task

• UNSWSRV-1122 config: Track forceidnumber state for o365 integration
  Affects System - Sets the Optional id number in the User Profile to be the same as zId on next login.

• UNSWSRV-1112 config: set and track local_unswcollege_integration azure settings
  Affects System - Sets and tracks the UNSW College SMS integration configurations with Moodle.

• UNSWSRV-1082 config: editor_atto: Track setting toolbar
  Affects Staff - Locates the EchoVideo button on the primary line of ATTO editor.

• UNSWSRV-822 config: Update the sftp host values to back-end
  Affects System - Sets and tracks the SiMS and PiMS servers integrations with Moodle

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-1114 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-1107 filter_thebox: Fix regexp to allow videojs player for thebox URL embeds
  Affects System - Enables the use of videojs player for thebox URL embeds.

• UNSWSRV-1105 mediaplugin_videojs: Disable right click and save option for thebox embed videos
  Affects Students - Prevents student from downloading videos that are uploaded to the description of an activity.

• UNSWSRV-1094 unsw_college: UNSW College ME Theme Customisation August 2024
  Affects System - Updates UNSW College Moodle Enhance theme to August 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-1092 theme_unsw: Alternative login page changes [M4.1]
  Affects System - Add "Back to main login page" link to AGSM theme and UNSW Global theme.

• UNSWSRV-1084 mod_mediagallery: Implement duplication or restore/import without user data
  Affects Staff - Implements Media Collection as a new gallery on duplication or restore/import without user data.

• UNSWSRV-1081 UNSW College Moodle integration update student bailing % per termcode
  Affects System - Implement thresholds for bailing alerts when student numbers decrease in the UNSW College SMS.

• UNSWSRV-471 editor_atto: Disable right click and save option when uploaded [M4.1]
  Affects Students - Disables right click on the media and save the content that is uploaded via the media button in the ATTO editor.

• UNSWSRV-436 mediaplugin_html5audio/videojs: Disable right click and save option when uploaded [M4.1]
  Affects Students - Disables right click for inbuilt Moodle audio & video players to prevent downloading of media content.

New Feature

• UNSWSRV-1123 mod_assign: Implement sorting of assignments by group
  Affects Staff - Enables the sorting of assignments by group in the ‘View All Submissions’ page when set up for group submissions.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-1113 Security backports from 4.1.12
  Affects System - Applies security patches from Moodle Headquarters.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-1091 mod_mediagallery: Fix gallery item viewing when mode is youtube and view is in grid mode
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures files in a Media Gallery are viewable when using Youtube mode and Grid view.

• UNSWSRV-1089 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation August 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to August 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-1087 mod_workshep: Fix issue of not displaying submission marks in gradebook
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures submission mark is displayed in the Gradebook for non-submission group mode in UNSW Workshop.

• UNSWSRV-1090 unsw_online_theme: UNSW Online Theme V2024062600
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Online theme to version 2024062600.

Task

• UNSWSRV-1088 config: theme_remui: set and track navlinkslabel and navlinks
  Affects System - Sets and tracks the links in the dropdown menu of AI in header.

• UNSWSRV-908 task: Disables the turnitintool plugin
  Affects System - Disables the Turnitin v1 plugin as it is no longer supported by Turnitin.

• UNSWSRV-907 config: set and track permissions for ngrtutor role
  Affects Non-Grading Tutor - Disable all permissions in Team Evaluation.

• UNSWSRV-906 config: Update and track new values for several roles
  Affects TELT Administrator/UNSW College Administrator - Updates the permissions for these roles to be the same as the Instructor role.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-1093 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-1086 mod_assign: Fix the issue of not able to download all assignments
  Affects Staff - Ensures all Moodle assignments in group mode can be downloaded.

• UNSWSRV-1085 mod_workshep: Fix issue of students unable to view their groups submissions
  Affects Students - Ensures all students in a group can access their group’s submission in a UNSW Workshop activity.

• UNSWSRV-1083 grade: Fix issue of search by ID number not working in single view gradebook
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructor can search for student by zID in Single View report of the Gradebook.

• UNSWSRV-909 mod_assign: Adds a tooltip to 'Download all submissions' button
  Affects Staff - Adds a new tooltip to advise instructor the Moodle Assignments that will be downloaded when filters are used.

New Feature

• UNSWSRV-1099 mod_mediagallery: Add message when downloading empty gallery
  Affects Staff - The message "There is nothing to download. The selected Galleries are empty." is displayed when instructor attempts to download an empty Media Gallery.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-905 Display message to hide hidden activity details when accessed by guest user
  Affects Students - Ensures guest users cannot view details of hidden activity, such as due dates, when accessing an activity URL.

• UNSWSRV-904 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation July 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to July 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-873 local_pld: Increase z-index value for Action Editor
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructors can access the PLD action editor pop-up windows when setting up the actions.

Task

• UNSWSRV-902 config: filter_active: set and track echo360tiny to On
  Affects System - Sets and tracks the filter for EchoVideo button in the toolbar of the new TinyMCE editor.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-903 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-900 lang: mdl_lti: Update Tool URL and Launch URL Help tooltips
  Affects Instructor - Updates the LTI Tool URL and Launch URL Help tooltips to explain the tool url has to be removed before switching to a pre-configured tool.

• UNSWSRV-899 mod_wiki: Fix issue of not able to insert media in comments editor
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures users can insert media in the wiki comments editor.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-887 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation June 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to June 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-886 Apply BASE-4987: mod_turnitintooltwo: Fix updating of calendar events when part name changes
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures the calendar event for a Turnitin Assignment activity is updated correctly when the activity name is edited in the submission inbox.

Task

• UNSWSRV-893 config: Track new values for roles permission and user policies
  Affects Students/Auditors - Hides the zID, email address, last access fields in the Participants list.

• UNSWSRV-891 task: Redo Clean Course Summaries to remove Javascript and other bad tags
  Affects Staff - Removes additional Javascript and corresponding tags in the Course summary section.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-894 UNSW College Moodle integration for M4.1 improvements
  Affects UNSW College System - Ensures the configurations for the new JR+ integration are configured with the various Moodle environments and tracked.

• UNSWSRV-892 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-860 local_nssdb: Add Class ID details for UNSW College
  Affects UNSW College Staff/Students - Displays Class ID details in the Participants list and export participants CSV.

• UNSWSRV-813 enrol_database: Limit enrolment process based on Parent course categories
  Affects UNSW College System - Processes user enrolments for UNSW College courses in the UNSW College category and subcategories.

New Feature

• UNSWSRV-804 UNSW College Moodle integration for M4.1
  Affects UNSW College System - Integrates Moodle with the new UNSW College's Student Management System (JR+).

Bug

• UNSWSRV-885 nss: update integration sql based inline with previous changes further
  Affects System - Updates and tracks the configurations for student enrolment for courses in Moodle UAT.

• UNSWSRV-882 assign_feedback_file: Fix assignment of feedback files for Moodle 4.1
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructor can upload a zipped Assignment feedback file for students.

• UNSWSRV-876 theme_unsw_online: UNSW online theme V2024041500
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Online theme to version 2024041500.

• UNSWSRV-868 Apply BASE-4967/4984: mod_lti: Fix issue of launch container launches External tool URL after changed to a Preconfigured tool in LTI 1.0/1.1
  Affects Staff - Ensures the new URL for an external tool is launched after the previous URL has been replaced.

• UNSWSRV-720 mod_workshep: Fix issue for viewing assessments flagged as unfair
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructor can review the assessments that students have flagged as unfair in UNSW Workshop.

Task

• UNSWSRV-884 config: set and track support contact
  Affects System - Updates and tracks the contact information for EdTech Hub on Sandpit Request Form.

• UNSWSRV-869 task: Clean Course Summaries to remove Javascript and other bad tags
  Affects Staff - Removes Javascript and corresponding tags in the Course summary section in order to display the course in Course search page.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-874 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-883 lang: local_migration_request: Update confirmation string
  Affects Staff - Updates the contact information for EdTech Hub on confirmation page of Sandpit Request Form.

• UNSWSRV-881 format_unsw: UNSW format V2024041500
  Affects System - Updates UNSW Online course format to version 2024041500.

• UNSWSRV-880 grade: Fix issue of search by id number not appearing in user report
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructor can search for student by zID in User report of the Gradebook.

• UNSWSRV-877 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation May 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to May 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-875 config: Track new values for the unsw college theme customised fields
  Affects UNSW College Staff/Students - Displays the updated Help links in the footer of UNSW College login page.

New Feature

• UNSWSRV-861 plugins: Enable filter_echo360tiny and tiny_echo360
  Affects Staff/Students - Installs EchoVideo as a button in the new TinyMCE editor to allow instructor to easily access and embed EchoVideo media.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-863 mod_assign: Fix pushing of weighted grades to the gradebook
  Affects Staff/Students - Ensures all adjusted grades using Team Evaluation are updated in the Gradebook correctly.

• UNSWSRV-856 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation March 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to March 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-854 nss: Enhance processing of Integration to send errors via email
  Affects System Administrators - Displays the summarised bailing alerts in the Cron email.

• UNSWSRV-805 mod_questionnaire: Fix issue with the numerical questions with decimal value
  Affects Students - Ensures a student can resume his/her Questionnaire attempt without any error.

Task

• UNSWSRV-864 task: Reset unmovable modules to be movable again
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructor can indent an activity.

• UNSWSRV-859 config: Set and track avoidmultiplerebuilds to Enabled
  Affects System - Ensures the logs for the Personalised Learning Designer Collect block are displayed correctly.

• UNSWSRV-858 config: set and track skiprepeatedregrade to Enabled
  Affects System - Prevents executing a full regrades for the same grade item multiple times to prevent any performance degradation of Moodle.

• UNSWSRV-820 local_moodleenhance: Hourly reset Teaching Courses to Moodle Enhance defaults
  Affects System - Reset wrongly selected theme and course layout for award courses to Moodle Enhance theme with List layout.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-865 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-862 theme_unsw_college: Apply UNSW-1142: Update login type wording
  Affects UNSW College Staff/Students - Displays the correct login credentials to be used on the UNSW College login page.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-853 Apply BASE-4948 blocks_collect: Fix the collect task failing on course grades
  Affects System - Ensures the course grades are collected at the scheduled time for the Personalised Learning Designer.

• UNSWSRV-852 Apply BASE-4945: mod_lightboxgallery: Skip image resize for images we can't resize
  Affects Staff - Ensures instructors can access student's submitted images in the Lightbox Gallery activity.

• UNSWSRV-849 Apply UNSW-1135: Remove Follow Us link in footer
  Affects UNSW College Staff/Students - Removes the URL for the "Follow Us" link on the UNSW College login page.

• UNSWSRV-817 format_remuiformat: RemUI Course Format Customisation February 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance course format to February 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-816 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation February 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to February 2024 version.

Task

• UNSWSRV-825 config: track auth_instructions
  Affects System - Updates and tracks the new login URL for UNSW College under Alternative login options.

• UNSWSRV-821 config: Set and track UNSW College theme settings
  Affects UNSW College Staff/Students - Sets and tracks the URLs for the new UNSW College login page.

• UNSWSRV-819 task: Change UNSW College RemUI courses to not be forced
  Affects UNSW College Staff/Students - Implements a new theme for UNSW College.

• UNSWSRV-814 nss: update integration sql based inline with previous changes
  Affects System - Updates and tracks the synchronisation script for enrolments between SiMS and Moodle.

• UNSWSRV-793 DB: Task to replace specific URL contents in block text/html
  Affects School of Art & Design Staff/Students - Updates an outdated URL in the "UNSW Copyright Notice" block.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-818 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-815 Re-Apply BASE-4922: mod_turnitintooltwo: Fix warning when import / restore activities
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can create a Turnitin Assignment activity without an error.

• UNSWSRV-823 Apply BASE-4940: mod_turnitintooltwo: Fix setting of module visibility in the gradebook
  Affects Students - Ensures hidden grades in a Turnitin Assignment activity are displayed in the Gradebook on the post date.

• UNSWSRV-824 Apply BASE-4944: mod_turnitintooltwo: Add timeout to avoid max execution time error in settings data dump tab
  Affects System Administrator - Increases the timeout for Turnitin Assignment activity admin tool to 5 minutes for System Administrator to change configurations without an error.

• UNSWSRV-850 Apply BASE-4946: Fix the ajax error when unlinking user
  Affects System Administrator - Increases the memory available when relinking users on the Turnitin Assignment settings page.

• UNSWSRV-851 Apply BASE-4947: Fix deprecated debugging message on settings page
  Affects System - Removes the deprecated debugging messages on Turnitin Assignment settings page in Moodle test environments.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-734 Apply BASE-4876: mod_feedback: Implement CSS for distinction between question and answer [M4.1]
  Affects Staff/Students - Implements a CSS for Feedback activity that makes the feedback answers distinct from the questions.

Bug

• UNSWSRV-812 Fix group import customisation
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can create groups via a CSV file import.

• UNSWSRV-811 local_astra: Update Azure code to support SDK March 2023
  Affects System - Updates the integration code between Moodle and Astra.

• UNSWSRV-802 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation January 2024
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to January 2024 version.

• UNSWSRV-797 theme_unsw_new: UNSW New Customisation December 2023
  Affects System - Updates UNSW New theme to December 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-796 theme_remui: RemUI Customisation December 2023
  Affects System - Updates Moodle Enhance theme to December 2023 version.

• UNSWSRV-786 report_student_feedback: Add privacy provider definition
  Affects System - Adds privacy provider definition to the plugin.

Task

• UNSWSRV-806 Change admin and theme_remui settings
  Affects System - Tracks the theme settings for the Dashboard page.

Improvement

• UNSWSRV-810 local_teameval: Add Randomise description to button only visible when debugging is on
  Affects Staff - Adds a description to the Randomise button,which is only visible when debugging is on in Moodle Test and Moodle Stage.

• UNSWSRV-807 grade: Fix issue of not finding student by 'Search for a student by ID number'
  Affects Staff - Ensures Instructor can use the functionality 'Search for a student by ID number' in grade → grader report screen.

• UNSWSRV-803 local_astra: Fix PHP Deprecation stack trace in cron task
  Affects System Administrator - Resolves the PHP Deprecation issue causing stack trace in cron task report.

• UNSWSRV-800 Merge latest HOSTED branch
  Affects System - Applies system and security patches.

• UNSWSRV-794 lang: mod_assign: Update a help string in the assignment submission settings
  Affects Staff/Students - Updates the Help text when the setting 'Require students to click the submit button' is enabled in the Moodle assignment.