Moodle v4.5 News

ENABLED JUNE 18, 2025

What's New?
  • Upgrade to Moodle v4.5
  • Applied the 2025 Course Structure Template
  • NEW! Self-enroll in the Moodle 4.5 Upgrade course for more exploration
What Will Change?

OVERVIEW: The Moodle update from v4.1 to v4.5 continues Moodle's focus on the user experience—improving efficiency and usability for both faculty and students. Although there are dozens of enhancements, we've focused on some of the substantive additions. See more details below:

  • Quickly create content or add subsections: There's no need to scroll down to the bottom of a section to add an activity, resource, or subsection. Simply click the plus sign between elements anywhere on the course main page. Subsections can help organize your course structure by grouping materials together.
  • Settings access: Directly access activity and resource settings, such as visibility and availability, completion conditions, and groups (if enabled) on the course main page and via the drop-down menu under the 3 vertical dots.
  • Indent items: Indent activities or resources on the course main page—one place to the right or left—from the Edit settings menu for the item. The indentation will also appear in the Course Index.
  • Bulk editing: Enable bulk actions from the upper right-hand corner of the course main page to action bulk duplicate, delete, move, and change availability. You can close bulk editing from the footer. NOTE: Although the Mass Actions block will still be available, we've removed it from the Course Structure Template in favor of this built-in tool.
  • Default text editor: The TinyMCE editor—designed with accessibility and usability in mind—has replaced the original ATTO text editor, which uses outdated technology and is no longer supported.
    • HTML </> is under the View drop-down menu: <> Source Code
    • ! breaks the Moodle autolink
    • Reveal or hide additional toolbar items with ...
  • NEW! Default accepted file types: The Assignment activity accepted file types will represent those commonly used at our institution (.doc, .docx, .rtf, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .html, .odt, .ods, .txt, .png, .jpg, .gif, .pdf). NOTE: To restrict or expand the accepted file types, you can still enter or remove the individual file extensions.
  • Gradebook navigation: The Grader report has integrated an extensive menu system. For example, click the 3 dots (...) next to your student's name to quickly switch to Single view or User report.
  • Quiz attempts: Easily reopen quiz attempts that were never submitted with a single click.
  • Quiz question type: The ordering question type allows students to rearrange words or phrases, or reorder images.

NOTE: OLET has not implemented any Moodle-integrated AI tools to date.

What Remains the Same?

  • The Moodle Dashboard:
    • Academic Support & Essentials: From Microsoft Office 365 FREE software to online Tutoring Services, these links directly access many of the resources students need to succeed at CCC.
    • Timeline: This block can display due dates that have been assigned. Students can choose whether to view those activities over the next week, month, or further into the future. This block also states the activity completion requirement and takes anyone directly to that activity in the course.
    • Recently accessed courses: The block shows the courses that were last visited, allowing anyone to quickly jump back in.
    • Calendar: Course assignments, quizzes, etc. may be configured to automatically populate this block. However, anyone can also create their own reminders too. Simply click on the month (e.g. June), then on the New event button in the right-hand corner of the month view.
  • Moodle My courses:
    • My courses: All of your courses can be found under this link—to the right of the Dashboard link—at the top of every Moodle page. (Remember, you can still filter the Course Overview to show those courses In progress, Future, Past, Starred, and Removed from View.)
  • Moodle 2025 Course Structure Template:
    (Self-enroll in the 2025 Course Structure Template GUIDE Moodle course for more details.)
    • Course Essentials is designed to support students with a consistent user experience and the essentials needed to succeed:
    • Module Overview prepares students for learning with Module Learning Outcomes that are clearly defined, measurable, and aligned to learning activities and assessments.
    • Contact Information encourages and supports student-instructor interaction.

NOTE: OLET has removed the Mass Actions Block from the Course Structure Template in favor of the built-in Moodle feature: Enable bulk actions.