Moodle 2.9: v20160119

In this release:

Happy new year! This release brings user photos from Office 365 to Moodle. If enabled, all Office-connected Moodle users can now have their Office profile photos show up in Moodle. We've also fixed several important bugs, including better management of Office 365 connections, and improvements to SharePoint connectivity.
- James, Lead Developer

New Features

• Sync user photos from Office 365 in to Moodle.

Fixes & Improvements

• Don't create a new Moodle account when logging in with an Office account that has already been matched to a Moodle account
• Fix missing disconnect link in user control panel.
• Fix switching from connected account to login-enabled account.
• Update Azure AD oAuth endpoints.
• Improve Sharepoint detection tool reliability and validity.
• Fix sharepoint access sync cron job and improve durability.

Moodle 2.8: v20160119

In this release:

Happy new year! This release brings user photos from Office 365 to Moodle. If enabled, all Office-connected Moodle users can now have their Office profile photos show up in Moodle. We've also fixed several important bugs, including better management of Office 365 connections, and improvements to SharePoint connectivity.
- James, Lead Developer

New Features

• Sync user photos from Office 365 in to Moodle.

Fixes & Improvements

• Don't create a new Moodle account when logging in with an Office account that has already been matched to a Moodle account
• Fix missing disconnect link in user control panel.
• Fix switching from connected account to login-enabled account.
• Update Azure AD oAuth endpoints.
• Improve Sharepoint detection tool reliability and validity.
• Fix sharepoint access sync cron job and improve durability.

Moodle 2.7: v20160119

In this release:

Happy new year! This release brings user photos from Office 365 to Moodle. If enabled, all Office-connected Moodle users can now have their Office profile photos show up in Moodle. We've also fixed several important bugs, including better management of Office 365 connections, and improvements to SharePoint connectivity.
- James, Lead Developer

New Features

• Sync user photos from Office 365 in to Moodle.

Fixes & Improvements

• Don't create a new Moodle account when logging in with an Office account that has already been matched to a Moodle account
• Fix missing disconnect link in user control panel.
• Fix switching from connected account to login-enabled account.
• Update Azure AD oAuth endpoints.
• Improve Sharepoint detection tool reliability and validity.
• Fix sharepoint access sync cron job and improve durability.

Moodle 3.0: v20151214

In this release:

New Features

• Support for Office Sway has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Sway content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Sway in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Sway anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Support for Office Video has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Video content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Video in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Video anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Added Moodle to Office user matching tool.
  -- This allows you to upload a CSV containing Moodle and Office 365 usernames to be connected together.

Fixes and Improvements

• Updates to language strings to improve readability and translations.
• Move Microsoft Graph API support to v1 from beta where available.
• Fix error encountered when creating a new OneNote submission.
• Fix errors encountered when the OneDrive for Business or OneNote repository is enabled before the plugins are set up.

Moodle 2.9: v20151214

In this release:

New Features

• Support for Office Sway has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Sway content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Sway in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Sway anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Support for Office Video has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Video content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Video in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Video anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Added Moodle to Office user matching tool.
  -- This allows you to upload a CSV containing Moodle and Office 365 usernames to be connected together.

Fixes and Improvements

• Updates to language strings to improve readability and translations.
• Move Microsoft Graph API support to v1 from beta where available.
• Fix error encountered when creating a new OneNote submission.
• Fix errors encountered when the OneDrive for Business or OneNote repository is enabled before the plugins are set up.

Moodle 2.8: v20151214

In this release:

New Features

• Support for Office Sway has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Sway content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Sway in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Sway anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Support for Office Video has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Video content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Video in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Video anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Added Moodle to Office user matching tool.
  -- This allows you to upload a CSV containing Moodle and Office 365 usernames to be connected together.

Fixes and Improvements

• Updates to language strings to improve readability and translations.
• Move Microsoft Graph API support to v1 from beta where available.
• Fix error encountered when creating a new OneNote submission.
• Fix errors encountered when the OneDrive for Business or OneNote repository is enabled before the plugins are set up.

Moodle 2.7: v20151214

In this release:

New Features

• Support for Office Sway has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Sway content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Sway in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Sway anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Support for Office Video has been added to the oembed filter.
  -- This allows you to embed Office Video content directly into Moodle. Enable Office Video in the oembed filter's settings, type in a URL to an Office Video anywhere a filter will run (ex. course content), and the content will be embedded directly into the page.
• Added Moodle to Office user matching tool.
  -- This allows you to upload a CSV containing Moodle and Office 365 usernames to be connected together.

Fixes and Improvements

• Updates to language strings to improve readability and translations.
• Move Microsoft Graph API support to v1 from beta where available.
• Fix error encountered when creating a new OneNote submission.
• Fix errors encountered when the OneDrive for Business or OneNote repository is enabled before the plugins are set up.

Moodle 3.0: v20151130

In this release:

New Features

• Customizable field mapping between Azure and Moodle.
• User creation restrictions for user sync based on field value.
• OpenID Connect login restrictions based on regular expressions against username.
  • This allows you to enable multi-tenancy in Azure but restrict the users that can log in.
• Automatically assign Azure users to the configure Azure application during user sync to allow Moodle to show up in "My Apps" in Office.

Bugfixes

• Better handling of setup process to prevent "insufficient priviledges" errors when checking Azure setup.
• Fix Office Document embedding in a course using a file resource.

Other

• Improved settings page
• Improved setup process - more sensible settings placement, improved error messages and error handling.
• login_hint and domain_hint parameters are sent to Azure login, when applicable, to allow some field prepopulation and improve UX.

Moodle 2.9: v20151130

In this release:

New Features

• Customizable field mapping between Azure and Moodle.
• User creation restrictions for user sync based on field value.
• OpenID Connect login restrictions based on regular expressions against username.
  • This allows you to enable multi-tenancy in Azure but restrict the users that can log in.
• Automatically assign Azure users to the configure Azure application during user sync to allow Moodle to show up in "My Apps" in Office.

Bugfixes

• Better handling of setup process to prevent "insufficient priviledges" errors when checking Azure setup.
• Fix Office Document embedding in a course using a file resource.

Other

• Improved settings page
• Improved setup process - more sensible settings placement, improved error messages and error handling.
• login_hint and domain_hint parameters are sent to Azure login, when applicable, to allow some field prepopulation and improve UX.

Moodle 2.8: v20151130

In this release:

New Features

• Customizable field mapping between Azure and Moodle.
• User creation restrictions for user sync based on field value.
• OpenID Connect login restrictions based on regular expressions against username.
  • This allows you to enable multi-tenancy in Azure but restrict the users that can log in.
• Automatically assign Azure users to the configure Azure application during user sync to allow Moodle to show up in "My Apps" in Office.

Bugfixes

• Better handling of setup process to prevent "insufficient priviledges" errors when checking Azure setup.
• Fix Office Document embedding in a course using a file resource.

Other

• Improved settings page
• Improved setup process - more sensible settings placement, improved error messages and error handling.
• login_hint and domain_hint parameters are sent to Azure login, when applicable, to allow some field prepopulation and improve UX.