IT Center Changes

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the winter semester 2022/23 course rooms were deleted on November 4, 2025.

• various bug fixes and security fixes
• all Release Notes

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the summer semester 2022 course rooms were deleted on June 2, 2025.

• various bugfixes
• all Release Notes

RWTHmoodle has been updated to version 4.5. This update includes the following new functions and improvements:

Functions

Text editor:

• In the TinyMCE text editor, you can now insert images using drag-and-drop.

“Quiz activity:

• managers: in the “Quiz activity”, grades can be assigned to sections and group of questions on the page “Questions”
• after completing a test students can see how they have performed in the respective areas
• managers: On the “Results” page of the “Quiz” activity, you can now use the “Regrade attempts…” button to regrade selected questions

Activities “Assignments” and “Quiz”:

• students now receive a notification as soon as the due date for an assignment approaches or is exceeded
• the system also informs students when a test will be available in the near future

Improvements

Course page:

• only the sections are bordered by a frame line, activities are separated from each other by thin horizontal lines
• clicking on a section now opens it in a separate page where you can only see the selected section
• managers can also open a section in edit mode by clicking on the “View” option in the three-dot menu on a separate page and edit it there
• the activity icons are now smaller and the colored background has been removed
• managers: the course format “Topics format” can now be found under the name “Custom sections”

Question bank (managers):

• categories in the question bank can now be moved more easily: either by drag-and-drop or via the option of the same name in the three-dot-menu

“Assignment” activity (managers):

• the user interface of the “Assignment” acitivity has been revised and aligned with that of the grader report and the course page
• on the “Submissions” page, all functions are now grouped together at the top of the page

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the winter semester 2021/22 course rooms were deleted on November 4, 2024.

• Migration from CentOS 7 to Rocky 9

RWTHmoodle has been upgraded to version 4.3. This upgrade includes the following new functions and improvements:

Functions

Course Page (managers):

• “Bulk actions” to select several activities, materials or entire sections at the same time
• duplicate sections with their content

Grader Report (managers):

• new search function allows targeted searches for individual students
• new context menu (three-dot menu) enables various actions

Assignment Activity (managers):

• under “submissions” you can send a message to several students at once, for example to remind them of a missing submission

Quiz Activity (managers):

• Under “results”, you can now reset the quiz attemps of students with the status “never submitted” to “In progress” and thus reopen them

Improvements

Activity Cards:

• the activity cards take up less space on the course page
• reduced size of the icons and inner spacing

Course Page:

• activities that can be manually marked as completed (default condition) will retain the clickable field “Mark as completed”
• other completion conditions are moved to a drop-down menu “To do”
• several completion conditions are combined which saves space and ensures a more uniform page layout
• managers will see a “Completion” drop-down menu that displays the completion conditions
• access restrictions for an activity are now highlighted more clearly
• default: only one restriction is displayed, several restrictions can be expanded via the “Show more” drop-down menu
• managers can adjust the access restrictions directly on the Course page
• managers: activities and materials can now be inserted directly into a section at any point
• managers: you can hide activities and materials via the three-dot menu as before. The entry has been renamed “Availability”
• managers: the status of hidden activities can also be changed directly on the Course Page via the “Hidden from students” label

Course Index:

• icon and title of an activity so that the elements are easier to find
• lists text and media areas
• all sections can be expanded or collapsed
• managers will find a new field “Title in course index” in the settings of a text and media area

new text editor:

• TinyMCE replaces the previous editor “Atto”

Grader Report (managers):

• the button for saving changes is now always visible and scrolls along
• you can collapse and expand grade categories that are not required using the arrow icons
• the icons in the new “Status” column indicate whether a grade itom or a grade category is hidden or locked
• text lables show the aggregation type and other current settings that have been made for the respective grade
• new context menu (three-dot menu) for enabling various actions
• grade categories and grade items can be added or edited without leaving the page

Question Bank (managers):

• improved filter function allows you to search for and filter specific questions
• the new layout has been aligned with other areas in Moodle to provide a more consistend user experience

Changes based on feedback:

• smaller icons and activity cards so that the course page shows more information at a glance and requires less scrolling
• “My courses” page is now the landing page (instead of “Dashboard”) after logging into the system to get more quickly to the courses
• information on “New activities” and access to EvaSys are now only available on the dashboard
• improvement of the performance

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the summer semester 2021 course rooms were deleted on May 2, 2024.

Improvements: 

• Paella Player 7 as default player
• several bugfixes
• all Release Notes