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General structure:
  • One instance of Moodle per academic year
  • All HUJI and CSE users effectively exist in all instances of Moodle. (Accounts are automatically created as required.) User ids and names are unique across all instances.
  • Courses, including Teachers, TAs, Students and Groups are built and maintained from information from Maarachot Meida and Minhal Talmidim but can be overridden.
  • Options for Sister courses, Kid courses and Extra courses where mapping from Shnaton course to required Moodle course is not one-to-one.
  • Additional hierarchy of Moodle courses, termed Rooms. See My rooms below
  • Certain features are available in CSE courses only. (Whether a CSE course is considered a CSE course is configurable.)

Features:
  • Administration:
    • Tool for Coordinators to create Shiur, Tirgul or Lab kid courses instead of, or in additon to, the parent course according to the types of groups specified in the Shnaton for the parent course.
  • Authentication:
    • Single sign-on (SSO) across different instances of Moodles that share a domain. Requires access to databases of other instances. Directionality and minimum authentication levels are configurable.
      (For efficiency, login is currently limited to previous and following years. Logout is across all instances)
    • The Manual, IdNG* and SAML authentication plugins set the session's authentication level according to the authentication token provided. (Many users own tokens at several levels.) Function require_login() can optionally specify the authentication level required. The user is redirected to the login page if he attempts to perform an action that requires authentication at a higher level than the session's current level. (Under webservices, he is denied access.) The login window specifies the types of token allowed at the required authentication level. (The Forgotten link is appropriate to the authentication level.)
    • A higher authentication level is required where access to CSE courses, modules or sections is restricted to authenticated users. (Term CSE users is used instead of Authenticated users where relevant.) Even if access to a CSE course is not restricted to authenticated users, so as to avoid confusion reauthentication is required if the session's current level is too low.
    • Minimal permissible authentication level can be set for users who own more than one token
    • Single sign-on with CSE CourseAdmin system
    • The IdNG* authentication plugin authenticates against the IdNG password server. If the IdNG server fails, authentication automatically changes to Manual. (Moodle has encrypted copies of all non-OTP tokens.) As soon as the server recovers, authentication reverts to IdNG.
    • Options for authentication by Moodle-generated OTP (not used) or by HUJI OTP service, including OTP request forms on login page. In both cases, OTP is sent to phone or primary email address. Both are currently disabled
  • Backup, Import and Restore:
    • When backup option Backup for restore to this moodle is set, course and module files are not included in the backup. Instead they are saved to a central repository (for this instance of moodle) from which Restore takes them. This ensures that saved backups (automated and manual) occupy about the same space as the Moodle data directory, irrespective of how many there are. (Developed before Include files feature released in 3.8. The latter is not used.)
    • User profiles and preferences are not included in the backup.
    • One-step backup and restore. See Copy from Moodle below.
    • Roles and enrolments, and groups and groupings are never backed-up or deleted. Blocks are not backed up by default and are never deleted.
    • When restoring from Moodle1, various problems with files are reported, rather than causing the restore to abort
    • Bug fix: In automated backups, if an existing backup file is broken, error is caught
    • Moodle URLs are canonicalized
  • Blocks:
    • Administration block:
      • Node Course administration:
        • Node Reset removes complete contents of course (i.e. resources, activities and questions but not blocks, enrolments, roles, groups or groupings)
        • Node Copy from Moodle is a one-step backup and restore. Copies any course from any instance of Moodle at HUJI. Choose to copy quizzes and question bank, just question bank, course contents (excluding blocks and legacy files), or legacy files. Manually-created groups created, including their associated access restrictions, are preserved.
          When copying from Moodle1:
          • Automatically upgrades assignments, including assignments of type UploadPDF (using the PDF submission and PDF feedback plugins).
          • For users with appropriate capability, option to copy also userdata, including attachments and embedded files. (Currently limited to forums and glossaries.) Note: If userdata is not being copied, News forum is also not copied.
        • Node Content bank
    • Calendar block:
      • Changed current day to red
    • Login block:
      • If SAML authentication is enabled, three possibilities:
        1. An embedded SAML login window, plus a Login to this web site only link at the bottom.
        2. A regular Login block but with a link Login with SAML at the bottom
        3. A dual block consisiting of a regular Login block and a block with a Login button for SAML authentication.
          The blocks are aligned horizontally
    • Navigation block:
      • Node Home:
        • Leaf node All courses replaces Courses node
        • Part of course hierarchy is under node My rooms rather than My courses
        • Nodes My courses and My rooms:
          • Include also nodes for courses and categories to which user is assigned but not enrolled
          • Node My courses, or My rooms, is shown only if user has a course, or room, respectively
          • On frontpage, if node exists, it is initially expanded
          • Node My courses is not shown in a room and node My rooms is not shown in a course
          • Courses hidden in the Course overview block are optionally hidden also in node My courses
        • Course nodes include nodes Sections and Subsections instead of individual section nodes
        • Node Sections includes section nodes
        • Node Subsections includes a leaf node for each subsection type used. See Subsections
        • Course node is dimmed if not available and not redirected and, for unprivileged user, not automatically redirected to Moodle1
      • In EXAM Moodle, the Navigation block is never shown in quiz attempts, even if Show blocks during quiz attempts is set to Yes.
    • Quiz navigation block:
      • Tooltips of question buttons show also first few words of question text
    • Private files block:
      • Various changes in EXAM Moodle only, including opening file in popup
    • Search forums block: Searches also Moodleoverflow forums
      If there are any, this is clearly indicated.
    • New blocks:
      • CSE CourseAdmin and CoursePreview
      • HUJI Links: Per-academic unit and per-course links, configurable
      • Notice
      • Office hours: Teacher and TA office info. If info is missing, Teachers and TAs see link to block configuration page (regardless of editing mode)
      • Search courses: See Search courses
      • Shnaton
      • Warnings:
        • Teacher view: Terse summary of course redirection, enrolability and availability to authenticated or unauthenticated users, icluding start and end dates
          In years in which many students are in in Miluim: The number of students currently in Miluim
        • Student view: Date of automatic removal of enrolment for self-enrolled students
        • Guest view: End of period of guest access
    • Contributed blocks:
      • Quickfind List:
        • Search by one or more of Hebrew and English first and last names, email name component, and ID
        • Search words for names may be whole or part words, prefixes or words to exclude
        • Disabled javascript autosearch
        • Users with role of Coordinator in any category context can use the block.
          However, public profiles of other users show only courses
          1. in categories in which the viewer's role of Coordinator is assigned or inherited, or
          2. in which the other user has a contact role
        • Various bugfixes; Title change
    • Bug fixes: Moving blocks in three-column themes in right-to-left mode
  • Bug fixes, improvements to help strings, and other minor fixes: Numerous.
    Major bug fix: Each of the numerous calls to Postgres function pg_field_type() increased bandwith from database to webserver by a factor of about 100. (On each call, all types are transferred.)
  • Calendar:
    • For course events, event title in export file is prefixed with course ID
    • Category events are disabled. (Collecting category events is too sluggish.)
    • Bug fix: Don't display Calendar monthly block for guest user
  • Comments:
    • New options developed for EXAM Moodle Chat (see here) but usable also elsewhere:
      • refresh: Replaces the Toggle option with a Refresh button
      • autorefresh: Checks for new posts every minute. Changes the Refresh button if there have been posts from other users since previous refresh
      • autorefreshlog: Logs autorefresh events. Useful in exams for monitory connectivity
      • lockable: Adds a Grab button or Release button, as appropriate, for advisory locking.
        Shows who locked if grabbed by another user.
        Lock is automatically released on sending
      • thumbsup: Adds a thumbsup button: Clicking on it appends a thumbsup character to the text. Useful for concluding an exchange
      • addcommentstr: Replacement for Add comment...
      • savecommentstr: Replacement for Save comment...
    • In exam Chat only:
      • Name of student is shown above comment box
      • Within box, name of student is in red and Me replaces one's own name
    • HTML special characters are convered into entities
  • Commercial software:
    Very many bugfixes and code changes to make compatible with current PHP and Moodle versions and PostGres.
    In addition:
    • Panopto: Sync once per session only
    • Originality: Remove BOMs from a couple of files. BOMs broke Assignment's PDF editor in Hebrew mode and all exports to Excel
    • TomaGrade: Option to upload all submissions
    • TomaETest: Streamlined options. In particular, hid all other options unless enabled
  • Course categories:
    • Allow courses to have more than one parent category
  • Course completion: On the course page, instead of the new Mark as done buttons below each item:
    • Moodle2: Reconstructed the pre-3.11 appearance i.e checkbox with optional blue tick at the same level as the item, on the opposite side. (The checkboxes are not displayed in editing mode.)
    • Moodle4: On activity page: Moved the button to the opposite side of the page, on a level with the item.
    • Ensured that completion can't be disabled even if not shown
  • Course formats:
    • Grid format:
      • Various small fixes
      • Import to Moodle4: Tool to import sections icons. (Copy from Moodle incorporates the tool.)
  • Course settings:
    • Access key for test users
    • Option to redirect (if not visible)
    • Subsection names and styles
    • Rename only enrollable roles
    • New Guest access options. See Guest enrolment
    • Attempting to make a course available, or opening guest access to the world, displays an appropriate warning and requires the users's agreement
    • Cannot change to visible if visible in Moodle1 (and vice versa)
    • Option to specify that the course is a sister of some other course. Students are automatically enrolled to the other course and, optionally, automatically redirected to it. Groups are automatically created in courses with sisters for their own students and each of their sisters.
  • Course listings:
    • All courses, including unavailable categories and courses, are listed.
    • Course is dimmed and icons are not shown if not available and not redirected and not automatically redirected to Moodle1
    • Guest access and Self enrolment icons are shown only during the period of time that they are allowed
    • Special icons for redirected courses and courses automatically redirected to Moodle1
    • Complete category hierarchy of each course (instead of just parent category)
  • Course view: If course is unavailable, and not redirected, unprivileged users are automatically redirected to the course in Moodle1, if it is available or redirected
  • Dashboard:
    • No On-line users or Private files blocks
    • Option on dashboard page for user to set it as his default homepage.
      If dashboard is set as the user's homepage, option on frontpage for him to set it as his default homepage.
    • Only principal Site administrator can change default settings
  • Editor:
    • Fixed problem with cutting and pasting of internal links from one editor window to another. See e.g. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=202500
    • Ensured that id and name tags are not stripped before editing
    • Atto:
      • Ensured that font tags are not stripped
      • Disabled undo and redo keyboards shortcuts (Ctrl-Y and Ctrl-Z)
      • Insert character popup: Added various characters and divided table into labelled sections
      • Word count plugin is enabled only Essay questions and only if option Show word count is enabled
      • Audio recorded: Hard-coded to user ogg format because detection of supported audio formats bombed in some browsers
    • TinyMCE:
      • Added autosave (using TinyAutoSave plugin). Each editor instance has its own save buffer. Editor contents are saved once a minute (provided there are at least 50 characters). Save buffer is discarded after 20 minutes. Contents can be restored by clicking on lifebelt toolbar icon.
      • Set forced_root_block to empty
      • On opening, directionality is according to current language mode
  • Enrolled users (aka Participants) and Other users pages:
    • Enrolled users (aka Participants) page:
      • Links to Enrolled user and Secondary role role definitions
      • Enrol users popup:
        • Reverted to pre-3.4 version (Autocomplete is too sluggish, even if search is set not to begin until string is at least 5 characters.)
        • All users matching search criteria are listed. Users that already have a role are marked as Enrolled (i.e. a Participant) or Assigned (i.e. an Other user) and cannot be enrolled
      • Edit enrolment popup: Enrolment cannot be edited
      • Filter menu:
        • Roles: Only Enrollable roles and Secondary roles. If the Secondary role selected is assigned to a non-participant, link See also Other users is shown.
        • Enrolment methods: Except Guest access
        • Status types: Not shown
        • Inactive since options: Not shown
        • In Groups submenu, description rather than name of auto groups if non-emtpy
      • Column Roles: The primary role is shown but only secondary roles can be assigned and unassigned. See Roles
      • Column Groups: All groups are shown but users can be added to, or removed from, only groups that are not automatically-maintained
      • Column Status: Information is shown, and users can be unenrolled, only for manual enrolments
        Information includes modifier and modification time but not enrolment period
      • If not paged, total number of users listed is shown
      • With selected users.. menu:
        • Downloads from Download table data as.. now include users' roles and groups (as comma-separated lists).
          (For auto groups, description rather than name is used if non-empty)
        • New options: List ID numbers and List logins (for CSE courses)
      • Additional options:
        • Display official HUJI pictures instead of pictures uploaded by users. (Privileged users only)
        • Include also Other users. (Privileged users only)
        • Show group descriptions instead of group names. (Only in courses with group descriptions in the Shnaton)
    • Other users page:
      • Links to Other user and Secondary role role definitions
      • Users assigned at system level are not shown.
      • Option to export roles assigned at course level
      • Horizontal rule between entries
    • In both enrolment popups (javascript) and user selectors (non-javascript):
      • At course level;
        • Users can be assigned only to enrollable roles (in Enrol users) or hidden roles (in Other users). See Roles
        • All users matching the search conditions are displayed but only users without either an enrollable or a hidden role can be enrolled
      • Context is system context, rather than course context (i.e. email is shown, rather than IDnumber)
      • Help icon shows that search is by Hebrew or English name, email or email name component, or full ID; for new users, by full email or ID; for CSE courses also by CSE login.
        (Search words for names may be prefixes.)
      • If there are more than 100 potential users in user selectors, or 25 in enrolment popups, the number is shown but none are listed.
  • Enrolment plugins:
    • Auto enrolment: Used for Teachers listed in the Shnaton and Students registered through Minhal Talmidim. Users cannot be unenrolled.
    • Guest enrolment:
      • New configuration options:
        • Authenticated users only
        • Start date
        • End date
      • Icon only when currently enabled
      • New additional icon when authenticated users only
    • Manual enrolment:
    • Self enrolment:
      • Icon only when currently enabled
    Self and Manual enrolments are automatically converted to Auto enrolments, as appropriate.
    Self enrolments are deleted at the end of the end of the enrolment period.
    If a user's enrolment is Manual or Self, his name is marked with a small red or green asterisk everywhere within the course
  • Experimental:
    • Optional parameter iframe forces the Embedded layout.
    • Possibility for a course to be in a different instance of Moodle. If the other instance is seemingly identical, actual location of course is transparent. (Useful when a course must be restored from a backup of the database.)
  • File manager:
    • Option for a file uploaded to the draftarea to replace the existing file. Saves first deleting the existing file when only one file may be saved.
  • Forms:
    • Form elements:
      • Editor:
        • Option to use Plain text editor, irrespective of user's preferred editor.
  • Gradebook:
    • Calculations:
      • Added functions compulsory, cond, and maxavg, and operators <, >, and & to calculations
      • Rewrote help pages and popups
    • Grader report:
      • If Show quick feedback is enabled, when editing is turned off mouseover bubbles (aka tooltips) display the feedback
      • Bug fix: Ensured that student names are not truncated in Hebrew mode when avatars are not shown
      • Group menu even when group mode is No groups
      • Changes since last page load are highlighted in pink. Notice at top of page explaining whether highlighted changes have been saved and how to enable/disable automatic saving.
      • Initials preferences are per language
      • Various cosmetic changes in order to reduce height of table
      • Bug: Error when both search users and one of the other filters were used and the searches clashed. Temporarily removed searchbox.
    • Single view:
      • Changes since last save are highlighted in pink. Notice at top of page explaining that highlighted changes have not been saved
      • Warning if user attempts to navigate away before changes have been saved
      • Group menu even when group mode is No groups
    • Export:
      • Plugin GR for export to the Faculty of Natural Sciences GR grading system
      • Plugin CA for export to the CSE CourseAdmin system
      • For most formats, group menu even when group mode is No groups
      • Options to include all students' groups, or only groups and/or students in a particular grouping
    • Import:
      • Plugin EXAM Moodle for import of quiz results from EXAM Moodle
      • Plugin CourseAdmin for import of grades from CourseAdmin
      • If the imported file is based on an exported file, then the default mappings of the column headers are set appropriately
      • User can be identified by CSE login
      • ID number can be 8- or 9-digit, or old ID (if student ID has changed)
    • Setup/Course grade settings and Setup/Preferences: Grader Report:
      • Option to use Plain text editor for feedback in the Gradebook and Assignments. This avoids HTML tags in Gradebook Quick feedback and in column Feedback comments in the Assignment View/grade all submissions page
    • New grade report type Chart: Bar chart of grades for any grade item
    • New grade display type Real or Percentage: Grade items are displayed as Real; Category and Course totals are displayed as a Percentage.
    • Support for Moadim: If support for Moadim is enabled:
      • The Course total category will be renamed to Targil. This becomes the default category
      • The Gradebook Setup pages will show a new item - Exam. Category Targil and item Exam will be in category Final grade. The Final grade can be specified in the usual way - by aggregation or by calculation. (Items Targil and Exam are available for calculation.) The Final grade and Exam grade can be locked and hidden per Moed
      • In the Gradebook View pages: There will show four new items - Exam1, Final1, Exam2 and Final2. Setting the grade for Exam1 or Exam2 will automatically set the grade for Final1 or Final2, respectively (according to how the Final grade is specified) - unless it is overridden.
      Support for Moadim can be disabled. Alternatively, a third Moed can be added.
    • A grade item can be marked as Compulsory. If a student does not have a grade for such an item, he will not be given a grade for its category
    • If a Minimum grade to pass is set on any grade item and a student's grade is lower, his grade on the category is reduced to one less than the category's Grade to pass (if set) if it would otherwise be higher
    • Bug fixes:
      • If there is a non-existent idnumber in an item's grade calculation, redirect to the calculation page instead of permanently recalculating
      • In item settings page, Hidden and Hidden until cannot both be enabled
      • If Recalculate final grade fails on any users, lists users it failed on instead of showing a general failure message
    • Even if Unlimited grades is enabled (in Site/Grades/General settings), Multiplicator and Offset (in grade item settings), do not put grade outside the item's limits
    • Minor changes:
      • Gradebook setup: Move selected grade items to menu: Added help popup to make it clear that this moves ony items, not categories
      • For theme Huji, hard-coded order of items in Tertiary navigation
      • 4.4: Changed number input fields to text input fields
  • Group choice:
    • Option to require user to supply further information when making a choice. See here
  • Groups:
    • Automatically-maintained groups:
      • Cannot add or remove members
      • Members added manually are shown with an asterisk and are not automatically deleted in the nightly update.
      • Members deleted manually are automatically restored in the nightly update.
    • In Groups page:
      • If group description is supplied by Maarachot Meida, it is shown together with the group name in the group management pages.
      • Groups are sorted: Automatically maintained groups by type and number, followed by manual groups alphabetically
      • Student count and staff count are shown separately
      • Students are listed before members of other groups
    • Users with capability moodle/course:viewmygroups (but not capability moodle/course:managegroups) have item My groups under Users in the Course administration block and can view the Groups page for groups of which they are a member
    • In group edit page, option Show group in dropdown menu for activities in group mode is never hidden or automatically set to false
  • Language:
    • Display language menu on all pages where language is not forced
    • Names of course categories, courses and users are shown in current language (Hebrew or English)
    • Likewise: If unchanged from default, names of subsections, news forum, default question categories and type of attendance recording are displayed in the current language. (Achieved without use of multilang filter)
  • Logging:
    • Extra logging:
      • Enrolments and unenrolments, role assignments and unassignments (events)
      • Webservice requests, including username, tokenid, function name and parameter values (file)
      • File uploads (file)
      • Individual mail messages sent including Forum post ID or Message ID where relevant (file)
      • Changes to quiz settings and quiz_overrides (tables)
    • No logging of calendar events
    • Web server logs are in English regardless off current language mode
  • Messages:
    • List also messages sent to self.
    • Message-ID of mailed messages includes the Moodle message ID
    • Search users by one or more of Hebrew and English first and last names, email name component, and ID
  • Module settings:
    • Restrict access: Option to restrict access either to authenticated users only, or to enrolled users only
    • Common module settings: Option to place item within a subsection
  • Modules:
    • Assignment:
      • Submission types:
        • File submission:
          • Option to submit only PDF files.
          • If the Moodle assignment is associated with a CSE CourseAdmin assignment, option for files to be automatically processed by the CSE Bodek code-checker as they are submitted. If Bodek is enabled:
            • On uploading a new file into the file picker, any existing file is automatically deleted
            • Bodek's response file is listed together with the actual submission file (except in the student's File Manager)
            • There are options to limit the number of submissions and for the teacher to regenerate a student's Bodek response file.
            • Option for all submitted files to be batch-processed by an alternative code-checker. This code-checker's response file is listed together with any other feedback files. It can also generate output to the CourseAdmin system.
        • PDF submission (renamed to File submissions (Alternative PDF editor)):
          • Automatically rebuild PDF if version of submitted file cannot be processed
          • Use Maximum number of uploaded files and Maximum submission size of the File submissions plugin (to avoid duplicate entries in the assignment Settings).
        • GIT submission: New submission type available if the Moodle assignment is associated with a CSE CourseAdmin assignment: Triggers the Bodek system to generate a PDF file from the contents of the student's GitHub repository. The PDF is listed together with the actual submission file (except in the student's File Manager).
        • Bulk upload: Allows one to use the Assignment for grading files obtained outside of Moodle. If enabled:
          • Students cannot submit or edit their submissions
          • If there are no submissions, then Grading action option Download all submissions downloads an empty directory hierarchy suitable for uploading back with Upload multiple feedback files in a zip
          • The other options in the section are not really relevant except when the Teacher submits, or resubmits, for individual students
        • Responses to a Quiz Essay question can be exported to an Assignment. See here. The Assignment is created automatically and has no options related to submission or student access. Feedback (including grades, annotated submission files, text and feedback files) can be imported back to the Quiz.
      • Submission files:
        The following types of file are rejected:
        • PDF files that cannot be procesed by gs
        • PDF files with pagesize larger than A4/Letter
        • PDF files with irreplaceable fonts (as occastionally generated by CamScanner)
        • If only PDF files are allowed, all other types of file
        • If Bodek is enabled, files that are not archive files
        If File submissions is enabled, all other types of file are submitted. If File submissions (Alternative PDF editor) is enabled, the submission fails. Either way, the rejected files are deleted.
        (There is an option to disable the rejection of PDF files.)
        Note: Only one of File submissions and File submissions (Alternative PDF editor) can be enabled.
      • Feedback types:
        • Offline grading worksheet:
          • Detailed explanation on uploading an invalid gradesheet.
        • PDF feedback (renamed to Alternative PDF editor):
          • If enabled, the legacy Grade page, without embedded editor, is used.
            (Changes were required to ensure that Moodle doesn't lose track of the current grading page.)
            Both the Alternative PDF editor and the built-in editor can be launched.
      • Improvements to the PDF editor:
        • Comments have a language mode. The default language mode is that of page. However, a comment's language mode can be toggled.
          Its language mode determines the comment's adjustment (right or left).
          Also, mixed language strings (Hebrew embedded in English, or English in Hebrew) are correctly displayed according to the comment's language mode.
          In the PDF viewer, each comment is displayed according to its own language mode, regardless of the language mode of the page.
          Likewise, in the generated PDF, comments are correctly displayed, each according to its language mode.
        • A comment's color can be changed
        • A comment's width can be changed
        • Simple one-letter hotkeys e.g. p and n for previous and next pages, c for comment, and x and v for cross and tick stamps.
          Tooltips show the new one-letter hotkeys although the legacy three-key accesskeys continue to work.
        • Annotation stamps retain the size at which they are drawn, even when less than 40px
        • Toolbar buttons are all shown, without the need to scroll, regardless of the page width
        • Comment box no longer vanishes if it is empty when its dropdown menu is opened. See MDL-55228
        • An empty comment box now vanishes after 30 seconds rather than 5 seconds
        • For team submissions, display a notice that saving propagates changes to all team members
        • Moodle4 bugfix: Comments and annotations were being deleted if created before combined.pdf. But combined.pdf is created only on page load.
          Thus all existing changes were lost when partner's page was loaded for the first time
        Note: Language mode, color and width are toggled by means of options in the comment's dropdown menu.
      • Group submissions:
        • In Download all submissions, only one set of files per group is included. The name of each directory begins with the group name
        • In Upload multiple feedback files in a zip, the files are uploaded to all members of the Student's group
        • A Student that does not belong to any group, instead of belonging to the Default group of all such students, effectively belongs to his own group
      • View/grade all submissions page:
        • Show only enrolled users (suspended or otherwise)
        • If option Allow students to choose partners is enabled in the assignment Settings:
          • There is an additional option Team leaders only.
            If checked:
            • Only team leaders and students who do not belong to a team are shown.
              Likewise, if Group mode is enabled and a group is selected, only teamleaders who are members of the group, and students who do not belong to a team and are members of the group, are shown.
            • The With selected... menu label is replaced with With selected users and their team members... and the selected option is applied to all team members of the selected team leaders
          • There is also an option to show only teams of a particular size, or range of sizes
        • Users with capability moodle/user:viewofficialpicture are shown official pictures instead of students' uploaded pictures.
        • Additional Grading action options (where relevant):
          • Save all Annotated PDFs
          • Download filtered submissions (when Marking workflow is enabled)
          • Prepare all PDF images
          • Generate/Regenerate all Bodek submission PDFs
          • Generate/Regenerate all Bodek feedback PDFs
        • Additional With selected... options (where relevant):
          • Generate/Regenerate Bodek submission PDFs
          • Generate/Regenerate Bodek feedback PDFs
        • Filter options:
          • Require grading: For assignments with a Cut-off date, does not include:
            • Submissions for which the Cut-off date is overridden (through a User override) and is in the future
            • Submissions for which there is an extension (through Grant extension) and is in the future
            • Submissions for which the student has declared that he will submit late (if Allow submissions after Cut-off date is enabled),
        • Changes to wording so as to narrow table
      • Grading summary page:
        • Teacher view: If team submissions are enabled but students are not required to submit in teams, in addition to the number of teams and the number of team submissions with status Draft and Submitted, the number of students who do not belong to a team and the number of non-team submissions with status Draft and Submitted are shown
        • Student view: If grades are hidden, Grading status is not shown
      • Assignments page: Privileged users see the correct number of submissions for assignments in which team submissions are enabled
      • New Settings options:
        • Allow students to choose partners: If enabled, students choose their partners from within the assignment. The Grouping and Groups are created automatically and are not visible anywhere else in the course (except in the Groups Overview page). Students that already have partners, or have already submitted, cannot be added or removed from partnerships. However, a Student can delete his group's submsission.
        • Use CourseAdmin penalites: If enabled and the Moodle assignment is associated with a CSE CourseAdmin assignment, the final grade is automatically calculated from comments that are valid CourseAdmin penalty expressions. In place of the grade, both teacher and student see the list of CourseAdmin penalties - including page, points deducted and expression for each item, as well as total deduction. (Optional in View/grade all submissions page). In the response PDF, and the student's view of the online PDF and listing, the expanded version of the penalty expression is shown, as seen in the CourseAdmin website itself. There are Grading action options for the teacher to regenerate all response PDFs and to export all penalty expressions to the CourseAdmin system.
        • Late penalty: Option to set a penalty for assignments submitted after the Due date (or student's Extension date). The penalty is an arithmetic expression. It can be overridden. It is recalculated if the Due date (or Extension date), or expression is changed, or if the override is cancelled. In the Assignment, the grade and Late penalty are shown separately. In the Gradebook, they are combined. If CourseAdmin penalties are used, the Late penalty is effectively a CourseAdmin penalty.
        • Allow submissions after Cut-off date: Option to allow a Student to declare that he will resubmit after the Cut-off date (or his personal Extension date). Useful if Require students click submit button is not set. If enabled, a Student can submit after the Cut-off date if he has not already submitted, or if he made the declaration before the Cut-off date. After the Cut-off date, he is required to indicate whether it is his final submission. The Late penalty expression (see above) can also depend on whether the student submitted after the Cut-off date.
        • Hide graders: Option to hide grader in Student view
        • Link to Personal forum associates the Assignment with a Personal forum. A Students' grade page will include a link to the most recent discussion that he started (or changed) in the forum.
        • Scale type of Submitted/Not submitted. If enabled, additional Grading action option Grade submissions by status sets all grades in Gradebook.
        • Hidden and Hidden until in section Grade: Hide/Show the assignment's item in the Gradebook.
          Note: The options exist also in other modules that use the Gradebook and do not use ratings or control the visibility of the grade item.
      • Grade page (default and legacy)
        • Response PDF generated using a UTF-8 font
        • For team submissions, warning that comments and annotations are not propagated to other team members until the submission is saved
        • If feedback type, Annotate PDF is enabled, link RegeneratePDF regenerates the page images. (Useful if ghostscript was broken when the images were generated.)
          Also, as explained above:
        • If Allow students to choose partners is enabled, other team members are listed.
        • If Allow submissions after Cut-off date is enabled, then after the cut-off date there is an indication of whether the student intends to resubmit
        • If Use CourseAdmin penalites is enabled, penalties are listed
        • If a Late penalty is set, it is shown and can be overridden.
        • If Link to Personal forum is enabled, there is a link to the most recent discussion that the student participated in.
      • Bug fixes:`
        • Bug in View/grade all assignments whereby collapsing any of the submission or feedback plugin columns broke the Javascript
        • Needs grading and the Require grading filter considered submissions for which the PDF editor had been launched as graded. The Require grading filter considered also submissions for which Save changes had been clicked as graded. Both now consider only submissions with a grade as graded.
        • Major bug whereby if Group submission was optional, all students who did not belong to any group effectively belonged to the same group
      • Option for the Teacher to delete a Student's submission
      • Option for a Student to delete his own (and his partners') submission. Currently enabled only if Allow students to choose partners is enabled. (Implemented in Moodle 3.7 core.)
      • Implemented event logging of submission deletion, including listing of team members
      • Legacy grade page shows grader and date of grading
    • Attendance:
      • Radioboxes in Change attendance page can be toggled
      • Improved section Student recording of session configuration
      • Heavy changes to session configuration page. See here and here
      • Ensured that landing page after scanning QRcode is minimal (with a Continue button) suitable for viewing on a mobile device
      • Option to change the QRcode rotation frequency
      • Fixed bug whereby status was set to to the not marked value if scheduled task did not run until session was over
      • Fixed very many other bugs and made many small improvements
      • Option Sum grades calculates the final grade for the activity as the sum of grades for all sessions i.e. including sessions for which the student's attendance is not marked.
      • Moodle4: Implemented Moodle2 tabs
    • Database:
      • Various features were developed for the Medical and Dental Schools' Pinkas and Mashov projects and are described in Tools for the Medical School. They are available in all courses
      • Also:
        • Export to Excel: Date fields are converted to Excel format
        • Import: Date fields that likely originated in Excel are converted to Moodle format
        • Various cosmetic improvements (available in the Legacy templates). For example:
          • Required icons are displayed to left of label so that labels and input fields are aligned.
          • Text and URL labels are aligned with top of input field
          • Link Back go list in Single template ensures that focus remains on the item just edited or viewed
    • Face-to-face:
      • Added support for Hebrew messages
      • Export file includes also entries students who have not signed up
    • Forum:
      • Anonymous forums
        • Forum may be Anonymous or Optionally anonymous. Default for Optionally anonymous forums can be anonymous or not anonymous.
          (Option to change from default is obviously available in Website only.)
        • If post is anonymous, name of poster is shown everywhere as Anonymous followed by a short identifier which is unique per discussion/user forum/user. No avatar is displayed.
        • Identity of poster is kept in database but never disclosed to any user
      • Message-ID of mailed messages includes the forum post ID
      • Per-post language mode:
        • If language is not forced, language mode that was active when post was created is remembered.
        • Each forum post is displayed according its remembered language
        • Directionality and alignment of HTML mail attachments is according to the post's remembered language
      • Messages are posted to subscribers even if course is not available - but warning is shown on opening a discussion
      • When News forum is automatically created, it is always placed at top of page
      • Option Manual message unread marking: Alternative to Manual message read marking. Messages not marked as unread are taken to be read
      • Mailed posts include fullname (instead of shortname) of course
      • Option Rebuild groups moves discussions to the current group of users who have changed group since they started the discussion
      • Posts by a Teacher, TA or Coordinator are distinguished by a colored border
    • ForumNG:
      • Default Forum type is Study advice (see only own discussions) and activity name is Personal forum (ForumNG)
      • In a forum of type Study advice, the user who inititiated a discussion is mailed all posts to the discussion, regardless of his subscription status
      • Option Rebuild groups moves discussions to the current group of users who have changed group since they started the discussion
      • Option Link to assignment associates the Personal forum with an Assignment. The discussion page will include a link to the Student's Assignment grade page.
      • If language is not forced, language mode that was active when post was created is remembered.
      • Posts by a Teacher, TA or Coordinator are distinguished by a colored border
      • If Forum type is Study advice, and Group mode is No groups then, for privileged users, a group menu is displayed on the discussion list page and, if a group is selected, only discussions started by members of the group are listed
    • Game:
      • Replaced items for each game type in the Activity chooser with a single item for choosing a game type
    • H5P: Bug fix: Display of field Editor in H5P Settings depends on whether theme is Boost.
      But checked default site theme, rather than current theme. Fixed!
    • IPal:
      • For both Teacher and Student, polling times out and must be restarted every few minutes
      • Numerous bug fixes
    • Lesson:
      • Maximum number of attempts can be unlimited
      • A lesson can be configured to embed other moodle pages (from the same site) i.e. if they are included in an iframe, to display them without their surroundings blocks
    • LTI:
      • Settings field Shared secret changed to a simple text field to avoid autofill in chrome
    • Moodleoverflow:
      • Support for file management in message editor
      • Ratings can be configured per instance or per course (for all instances that user per-course ratings)
      • Term helpful is used instead of solved except in Settings
      • Discussions can be Deleted, Closed or Closed as duplicate.
        Students do not see Deleted discussions. No changes can be made to discussions that are Closed or Closed as duplicate
      • Reputation of course staff:
        • Green star (instead of orange)
        • Option not to show value or allow up/down voting
      • Discussion listings can be sorted by Votes, Started and Last post
      • Comments can be in reply to other comments as well as to answers. Thus comments are nested instead of a simple list
      • Option to render Moodleoverflow read-only outside a predetermined timeframe
      • Questions, answers and comments are displayed right- or left-adjusted according to the language mode that was in effect when they were posted (NY)
      • Option in Forum preferences not to be automatically subscribed to Moodleoverflow discussions that one participates in
    • Quiz:
      See the EXAM Moodle miniguide for many other features not listed below that are available also in regular Moodle
      • Teacher can submit a saved attempt or unsubmit a submitted attempt.
      • When status of attempt is changed to abandoned, timecheckstate of attempt is not changed. If quiz closing time, or user or group override time, is changed to the future, status of attempts with status abandoned is changed to inprogress.
      • If a quiz slot is associated with a CSE CourseAdmin assignment, option for the grade to be automatically calculated from manual comments that are valid CourseAdmin penalty expressions. The manual comment editor is a plain text editor. In the student's view of the manual comment, the expanded version of the penalty expression is shown, as seen in the CourseAdmin website itself.
      • Results:Manual grading:
        • Main page:
          • Option to select one or more questions and print all selected questions, sorted either by question or by student.
            (Only manually graded questions can be selected.)
          • If any of the slots are associated with a CourseAdmin assignment, there are options to grade/regrade any such slot and export penalties to CourseAdmin.
        • Grading page:
          • Add ordering options:
            • Semi-randomly: Unlike option Randomly, ordering does not change between page loads
            • By grade
          • Additional options:
            • Hide question text
            • Hide feedback
            • Show student view (in CSE courses, for quizzes associated with a CourseAdmin assignment)
          • Bug fix: When Attempts to grade was set to Those that need grading, button Save and go to next page skipped as many ungraded attempts as attempts that were graded. Fixed! Also, removed Paging bar (because paging changes as attempts are graded).
          • Changed wording from Save and go to next to Save when all attempts fit into a single page
          • Change options changes to first page
          • Implemented a Save button, in addition to the Save and show next (or Save and show first) button, to enable continuing on the same page
      • Results:Grades
        • Show only enrolled users except when Attempts from option is set to all users who have attempted the quiz
        • If there are any essay questions in the quiz, link Grade essays (below each link Review attempt) opens a page for grading all the essays in the attempt.
          The page is similar to the Manual grading page, but is per quiz attempt rather than per question.
          It can be toggled to show all questions - not just essays.
          It can also be toggled to show question text - not just responses.
          If a grade is invalid, the invalid grade is clearly indicated and it is clearly indicated that changes have not been saved.
        • Option to see if regrading is in process
        • By default, regrading uses same version of question. Option to regrade using current version
      • Results:Responses
        • Additional optional field: Question name
      • Results:Statistics
        • Bug fix: If first question was random, its breakdown was not calculated or shown
      • Results:MCQ
        • Option to download
      • If quiz name is changed, name and info of quiz's default question category are changed accordingly
      • Quiz autosave applies only to unprivileged users.
      • Utilities to export responses to an Essay question to an Assignment and import grades, feedback and feedback files back from the Assignment back to the Essay question
      • Chained questions: Simpler alternative to Ganged questions. For use when questions are shuffled but not random. Unlike Ganged questions, property of the quiz rather than the questions.
      • The index page optionally shows also group and user overrides and Opening time.
        EXAM Moodle shows also group restrictions, Time limit and whether exam is Active
        Student's view shows his own times, taking into account overrides that apply to him
      • If the Navigation method is Sequential, one cannot move on to next page before one has answered all the questions on the current page.
        Per question-type heuristics determine whether a question is considered to have been answered.
      • Attempting to duplicate a quiz, opens a confirmation popup with a warning and detailed instructions for circumventing the dangers
      • Events:
        • Include information on page number in page view event
        • Created a page save event, with information on page number
        Both events are used by the EXAM Attempt log
      • In the Grades page, before an attempt has been submitted, there is the usual hyphen in the box for an attempt/question only if a response has as been saved or autosaved. Otherwise the box is empty
      • In Edit questions page, a checkbox and tooltip indicate whether a random question includes subcategories.
        (Didn't succeed in indicating on the question edit page itself whether subcategories are included.)
    • Scorm:
      • Various small fixes
    • Workshop:
      • Utility to import submissions from an Assignment into a Workshop
      • Full support for team submissions if imported from an Assignment
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Page footer:
      • Link Data retention summary is hidden
      • Standard links on left, copyright on right
    • unoconv times out after 60 seconds and any remaining soffice process is killed
    • On logging in for the first time:
      • A user who is a Teacher in any course, can choose whether to allow recordings of his lectures to remain available
      • All users must agree not to user course material for purposes other than teaching and learning within the framework of the course
      (In both cases, popup shows Hebrew and English response blocks, side by side.)
    • Ensured that forum scheduled tasks runs before all others
    • Ensured that adhoc task course_backup_task runs at lower priority than all other adhoc tasks.
    • Flexible table
      • Added support for WITH clause
      • Preferences are per language
    • Support for users with some particular role in any course to respond to a Yes/No query on fauthenticating for the first time
    • Activity chooser: Can hide any activity types (configurable in PHP)
    • Confirm modal dialog works as Warning if there is no Cancel button
    • CLI scripts: Take arguments to determine the instance of Moodle. (Web pages determine the instance from the $_SERVER settings)
    • Ensured that if $CFG->debugdisplay is not set, developer mode is not automatically enabled (i.e. caching is not automatically disabled) if debug level is sufficiently high
    • Features in HUJI Moodle requested by the rector:
      • Implemented but not currently used:
        • A user who has role of Teacher in any course, must agree to have his lecures recorded
        • Gradebook category Syllabus with per-course items as defined in Orbit:
          The category is at top level (or under Targil if Support for Moadim is enabled) and is collapsed.
          Neither the category not its contents can in any way be changed: Neither moved nor removed, nor names or weights changed
        • Option for student to abandon an exam if he has permission to do so
      • Current used:
        • Students who have completed more than a given number of days of Miluim between particular dates are marked by a superscript.
          (Many students have more than one superscript.)
    • New export data format: Comma separated values (.csv) - HTML not stripped
    • Removed Atto from list of text editors available on mobile devices
  • Multimedia:
    • Changed rank order of html5audio player to above that of qt and flv players except for specific versions of firefox i.e. prefer browser to embedded player for m4a (audio/mp4) and mp3 (audio/mp3) files.
  • Plugins:
    • Contributed plugins:
      • Mass enrollments: Heavily rewritten and improved
  • Questions:
    • Question settings:
      • Two sets of buttons for saving:
        First set saves to the current version. This is the default.
        Second set saves to a new version. This is rarely required in courses that run in real time.
    • Ganged questions:
      • Alternative to cloze questions but without any of the limitations inherent in the cloze question type. A gang of questions is a group of questions that always remain together, and in the same order (and on the same page), even when the questions in the quiz are shuffled. There can be any number of gangs in a quiz and a random gang is chosen from what is effectively a category of gangs.
    • Fixes to question types:
      • CodeRunner:
        • Ensured that Full-screen mode and Safe-Exam Browser do not block mouse events in the Ace editor by setting its JavaScript property contentEditable to true
        • Added output of test cases to manual grading pages
        • For C++: Treat syntax error as a failed test, rather than aborting
        • New Precheck option Disabled, no submit: Neither a Precheck nor a Submit button
        • Fixed CSS for rtl
        • EXAM Moodle: On quiz Summary page, show regular statuses (rather than CodeRunner-specific statuses) for CodeRunner questions
        • New option in test case Display menu: Hide completely
          If selected for any of the test cases, then messages Your code failed one or more hidden tests and Passed all tests! are not shown.
          Also, the results are shown on a yellow background even if all tests are passed and marking option All-or-nothing is disabled.
      • Drag and drop onto image:
        • In Student's review, correct answer is shown for answers that are incorrect
      • Gapfill::
        • Allow blanks before and after commas in list of distractors
        • Option not to strip HTML from answers and distractors
      • True/False:
        • Both True and False can be correct (EXAM Moodle only).
    • Bug fixes:
      • Calculated (Moodle2):
        • Settings of questions with shared datasets
          • First page: Fixed list of questions that use shared dataset to show only one entry per question bank entry
          • Third page: Fixed count of quizzess and count of question attempts that share the question's datasets
      • Numerical::
        • Tolerances below smallest floating point number
    • New options:
      • Essay:
        • Option to include the Student's response in the initial content of the Comments editor
        • Option to show the wordcount in the Atto HTML editor. (It is always shown in TinyMCE.)
          This replaces the Minimum and Maximum word limit options (because these are unsatisfactory as the word count and error message are updated only on page load).
          If enabled, the word count is shown in the review, as it would be if Minimum or Maximum word limit was enabled
        • In EXAM Moodle, options available and default values depend on whether exam is of type Assignment and, if so, whether of type TomaGrade
      • Multianswer::
        • Option to disallow a negative grade
      • Multichoice:
        • Option for Hebrew numbering
        • Option to allow a negative grade
    • Question edit page:
      • Warning if question is used in any quiz. Link to popup that lists all quizzes in all courses that use the question.
      • Warning if there exist any attempts on the question. Link to popup that lists all attempts including course, quiz, quiz state, question state and correctness
    • Question bank:
      • In kid courses, question bank of parent course is included in hierarchy of question categories
      • Bug fixes:
        • Course restore bombed if multianswer question was missing a subquestion. Course was seemingly restored but question bank of the course was left in a mess. Also, question banks of other courses of which it had copies were corrupted. Now shows problematic question and continues.
  • Reports:
    • Logs:
      • Added option All changes to All actions menu
      • Added name of activity to Course module deleted entries
    • Export to JSON: Fixed for Hebrew keys
  • Resources:
    • File:
      • New required fields: Type and source of document. Declarations are logged.
  • Restore from Moodle1:
    • UploadPDF assignment type
    • Subsections
  • Roles: A role is either primary or secondary. A primary role is either an enrollable role or a hidden (aka otheruser) role. In a given course, a user can have no enrolments and no roles, or one enrolment and one enrollable role, or no enrolments and one hidden role. A user with a primary role can have zero or more secondary roles.
    • Enrollable roles: Built-in roles Grader (aka Non-editing teacher), Student and Teacher, plus
      • TA
    • Hidden roles: Built-in roles Manager and Guest, plus
      • Coordinator: Equivalent to Teacher.
      • Secretary, Newsman: Can post to the News forum. Secretary can also export grades
      • Colleague: Can view absolutely everything except for personal user information
      • Visitor: Equivalent to Guest but does not require guest access
      • Various system roles including Profile editor, Help desk and Site coordinator
      • User context role: Supervisor
      • In Medical and Dental schools: Mentor and Supermentor. (Included with the list of courses that the user is enrolled to in his Profile)
    • Secondary roles:
      • Editing: Can view and edit everything except personal user information
      • Grading: Has privileges of a Grader
      • Restricted and Very restricted: Sees Mispar Zehut or Moodle ID, respectively, instead of user's first and last names.
        No other user details are shown or are in any way accessible.
        (The role is normally assigned at course level. It can be assigned at activity level but is less useful there because user profile links are course level.)
      • X-ray eyes: Can view absolutely everything except for personal user information
      • Utility: Has no additional privileges. Several such roles exist and can be used to override permissions.
      • In Medical and Dental schools: Mentoring and Supermentoring
    One can switch only to a primary role. See Enrolled users and Other users
  • Section settings:
    • Restrict access: Option to restrict access either to authenticated only, or to enrolled users only
    • Allow empty section names
  • Search courses: Search by one or more of course ID, course name, chug ID, chug name, faculty, teacher name, degree, year, semester, compulsory and availability. Search words for names may be Hebrew or English, whole or part words, prefixes or words to exclude
  • Sessions:
    • Time session waits for lock is automatically reduced when server is under heavy load
  • Subsections: A subsection item is automatically created (if one does not already exist in that section) when the subsection of an activity or resource is set. The resource or activity is placed below the subsection item. Subsections (i.e. the subsection items together with their activities and resources) are displayed after all other items in the section, and in the order defined in the course Settings. Subsection items have edit icons only for title, deletion and visibility. Clicking on a subsection navigation node displays the course page with only subsections of that type.
  • Test users: Several Test User accounts are available for use when Switch role to.. is inadequate. A Test user can access only courses to which he is enrolled. (He canot self-enrol.) In order to access a course to which he is enrolled, he must supply the course's Access key for test users. Various navigation items are absent for Test Users and profile is limited.
  • Themes:
    • New themes:
      • Huji based on Clean
        • Similar appearance to Formal white
        • Three-column
        • Collapse/uncollapse of blocks
        • Moodle4:
          • Activity icons and filetype icons are the legacy Moodle2 icons, rather than the new Moodle4 monologo icons
          • Database and Attendance: Includes Moodle2 tabbed navigation
          • Assignment: The administration block includes everything that is in the Moodle2 block
          • Main ourse page: Reduced spacing between items in all course formats
        • Turn editing on/off button in navbar.
    • Formal white and its base classes:
      • Numerous CSS fixes, including for Moodle versions later than 2.7 and right-to-left languages
      • Support for blocks in main region of frontpage
      • In Moodle2.8 Grade report , ensured that row headers are not scrolled
      • Support for User dropdown menu
    • Bootstrap and Elegance:
      • Several CSS fixes for right-to-left languages
      • Fixed Activity chooser in Hebrew mode
  • User preferences:
    • Docked block preferences are reset on login
    • Initials preferences are per-language on Participants page, Grader report and Assignment View/grade all submissions page
    • New user preferences page: Miscellaneous prerences: Currently includes options to:
      • Increase one's session timeout to up to 24 hours.
      • Show/hide completion conditions on course page, overriding course settings, for courses in which completion tracking is enabled.
  • User profile:
    • First and last names in the top section of the Edit profile page are the user's names in the current language. Names in the alternative language (Hebrew or English) are in section Other names
    • Users cannot change Hebrew or English names or email except when not available from Maarachot Meida
    • If not available from Maarachot Meida, the user is redirected to the Hebrew or English Edit profile page, according to whether the Hebrew or English names are unavailable
    • New profile field in CSE courses: Login. In Participants page, Assignment View/Grade all submissions page and Gradebook report, new column Login sortable and searchable by initial letter
    • Privileged users see both the picture uploaded by the user and his official HUJI picture
    • Course profiles:
      • Only courses in which user is a Participant, or a Mentor or Supermentor, are listed
      • Primary role of user is shown for each course
  • User view:
    • Except for Coordinators, list courses only of self and course contacts and only courses in which course contact has contact role

Activity-based moodle (Muddle)
  • When assigning roles, if a valid email address is entered and is unknown to Maarachot Meida, or is no longer authenticatable, an account is automatically created or reactivated. The username is the email address and the password must be changed as soon as the user logs in. Users with such accounts cannot enrol to any courses or change their email address. As soon as such an acccunt no longer has any role, it is automatically deleted.
  • Fasttrack course option: If a user has only a single role assignment and it is as a Student in a course that is configured as Fasttrack, then on authentication he is redirected to the course. If there is only a single activity in the course (besides the News forum), he is redirected straight to it.

EXAM Moodle
EXAM Moodle is a variation of Moodle that, from the point of view of a Student, behaves like an exam system. Full details are in the EXAM Moodle miniguide
Exams are Moodle quizzes. The course and quiz Settings pages shows only options relevant to exams. See here
Henceforward, a quiz will be called an exam
  • An exam can be configured to be active* If so:
    • In courses in which registration to exams is through RishumNet, a Moed must be set.
      In other courses, an Opening time and the interval that the student must Start within must be set.
    • A Time limit and/or Closing time must be set
    • Either a password or a subnet** must be set. The subnet can be a combination of IPs and rooms/WIFIs.
  • An exam can be released*** for review, optionally with start and/or finish times
    One can configure whether a student can review all questions or
    • Only questions that he answered and were not disqualified**** (default), or
    • Only questions that he answered incorrectly (or partially correctly) and were not disqualifed.
      (Essay questions can be excluded.)
    Similarly, for Multiple choice questions (or subparts of Close questions), one can configure whether a student can see
    • All answers, or
    • Only the answer he chose (default), or
    • Only the answer he chose plus the correct answer
    One can configure whether to show feedback.
    The review can be restricted to a combination of IPs and rooms/WIFIs
  • Instead of the option to enter a Safe Exam Browser (SEB) key, there is an additional Browser security option that allows SEB only with the preconfigured SEB keys (if any) of the selected rooms/WIFIs.
    There are also options to:
    • Set a file with Supplementary documentation
    • Force shuffling of answers, regardless of question settings
    • Show a Save button on every page. (Useful if there are essay questions.)
    • Allow students to reopen a finished attempt if the time has been extended since it was submitted
  • An exam can be configured to be of type Assignment.
    This reduces the options to those required by an quiz with nothing but a single Essay question.
    In particular, the Edit exam page is the editing page for an Essay question with reduced options (depending on whether grading will be done in a real Assignment or in TomaGrade)
    Also, there is a hidden export to a real Assignment or TomaGrade, grading is done inside the Assignment or TomaGrade, and a hidden import of feedback and grades back to the exam
Authentication is required. Guest access is not allowed. Ordinary access rules are irrelevant for unprivileged users.
On successful authentication:
  • If the URL path is exactly review (and there is no query string), a user can review any exams that he has taken and have been released*** for review.
  • Otherwise, if the user has an exam at that time***** and location******, he is taken straight to the exam.
    (If SEB is required and he is not using SEB, he is instead thrown out with an explanatory message.)
    If the user has more more than one such exam and has not started any, he can choose between them.
  • Otherwise, if he has a privileged role in any course (moodle/course:viewhiddencourses), he is logged in as usual but effectively has a role in only those courses
  • Otherwise, he is thrown out with an explanatory message. Likewise, he is thrown out if he attempts to access any page unrelated to his exam.

*****A user is considered to have an exam at that time if
  • There is an exam that he has started that day and has not yet finished. Or
  • There is an active* exam in a course to which he is enrolled as a student, and it is not more than the Start within interval from the Opening time (taking into account group restrictions and Group overrides and User overrides). Or
  • He is registered through RishumNet to an exam in a given course and moed, and it is not more than an hour after the time for which he is registered,
******A user is considered to have an exam at that location if his IP is within the subnet** configured.

Note: The algorithm that determines whether and where a student currently has an exam is necessarily heavy and complex. In order to avoid loading the database when many students begin exams simultaneously, the information is stored in a cache that is updated on any changes to course enrolments, group registrations, quiz settings and Group and User overrides

Additional features available only in EXAM Moodle
  • By default, Teachers, TAs and Graders see only Mispar Zehut - equivalent to the Restricted role. See Secondary roles above.
    This can be waived by assigning the secondary role of Unrestricted.
    Such users can search the results table by ID prefix, rather than initials
  • Additional primary roles Extension 25%, 40%, 50%, 100% and 0% assignable at site level, and equivalent secondary roles assignable at course level. (Highest role , other than zero, takes precedence.).
    Roles are automatically assigned based on information from Minhal Talmidim..
    Students with one of these roles automatically get a corresponding extension on default and Group override time limits and/or closing times
    The name of a user with one of these roles has the extension as an orange superscript everywhere within the site or course.
  • Additional secondary role Audition. See FIXME
  • Overrides:
    • The subnet**, Browser security and Start within time can be overridden
    • The User override page lists all Group overrides that would apply to that Student if there was no User override (including extensions from Extension roles)
      Also, whether the Student is entitled to a time extension if the time limit and/or closing time is not overridden
      Note: A student must be selected before the User override page is opened
  • Option to grade only the first N questions answered in each section (in order of the user's layout). Any additional answers are disqualified****.
    Per question-type heuristics determine whether a question is considered to have been answered.
    Radioboxes in multichoice, multianswer and true/false questions can be toggled. Clear choice feature of multichoice questions (introduced in 3.7) is disabled.
  • Unanswered and disqualified questions are not included in the number of responses, average and standard deviation, or in the Statistics
  • Option to determine grade for section from M questions with highest grade (where M < N).
    (This and the previous option are now available also in HUJI Moodle if Enable experimental quiz features is enabled in course Settings.)
  • Full logging of all page forms generated and submitted (NY)
  • In Results page:
    • Column Time limit shows limit that was/will be in effect depending on the then/current Extension role and/or overrides
    • In addition to Average, Standard deviation is also shown
    • Unanswered, disqualified****., and manually-graded (NY) are shown in different colors
  • In Attempt page:
    • Fixed (i.e. non-scrolling) header with course name, moed, user name, ID number and picture
    • Links to Supplementary documentation and Instructions (aka Description) popups on every question page.
    • No navigation bar or footer, or other links to anywhere outside the exam.
    • Wording appropriate to an exam
    • If the student's laptop is connected through the HUJI exam WIFI network, link Recover from lost connection allows the student to continue working after the WIFI connection is restored i.e. without the need to reload the page (as would be required on Windows) and thus lose unsaved answers.
  • Login window does not 'remember' username
  • Option to import grades from EXAM Moodle into HUJI Moodle
  • Option to import groups from HUJI Moodle into EXAM Moodle
  • Option to create an Assignment from the responses to an Essay question
    Also, to subsequently copy the Assignment's Feedback files back to the Comment field associated with responses (as links).
    (Useful in CSE, for questions that require code, in order to enable the Bodek code-checking system to process the responses.)
  • Review:
    • Teacher can toggle between his view and the Student's view
    • Toggle between paged and unpaged views.
      (In the Student view, empty pages are not shown i.e the Next page or Previous page link points to the next or previous page with viewable questions.)
  • Option to list all links to, and images on, external sites that may be appear anywhere in the exam.
  • Option in course settings to set the editor everywhere in the course
  • If IP is in a room, or an a WIFI, for which there is a pre-configured SEB key, a warning is shown if version of SEB is incorrect, or SEB key is incorrect or not the current version.
    If SEB key is recognized, login page has a Quit SEB button.
    If the SEB key is that of one of the WIFIs, there is an indication of whether the connection is through that WIFI.
  • Group override page: Option to create or repopulate a group that includes only students currently taking the exam in any room/WIFI
  • Option to set an Alert on a question.
    If there is any Alert text, it is shown highlighted above the question text and the question is highlighted in the navigation block.
  • Option to shuffle sections.
  • During the last five minutes of the exam, the background color of the timer gradually changes from pink to red.
  • Announcements: Channel of communication from course staff to all students
  • Chats: Channel of communication between an individual student and course staff, initiated by the student during attempt or review
  • The timer, Announcements and Chats all have Refresh buttons. The color of the button changes to red if the there has been a change that requires a refresh
  • All autosaves are saved
  • Various additional report types. See here.
  • Various utilities for managing exams. See here.
  • Various options for demo exams. See here.
Note: Because EXAM Moodle takes care of redirection, it can be used as the SEB portal, avoiding the need to configure SEBs per exam

LUMDA (Tutorial) Moodle
  • All attempts at SCORMs are saved
  • Webservices provide score or status in most recent, best attempt in any SCORM and Quiz in any of its available languages or in just one language.
    (Many SCORMSs and Quizzes are available in Hebrew and English. Some also in Arabic).
See LUMDA Moode documentation


For further information, see the Top10 FAQ, the FAQ for teachers, the FAQ for students, the Mini guides and the Cookbook