The December 2024 version will include new features, add-ons and improvements to the course templates.
✨You can check out the latest version for yourself in the Sandbox installation.
🆕New add-ons
Teams Meeting (TinyMCE editor) (tiny_teamsmeeting)
- Microsoft Teams Meetings App for Learning Management Systems (LMS) integration with Moodle as a TinyMCE add-on. This add-on allows you to create a meeting and automatically add a meeting link to the content of the editor.
- Learn more: https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_teamsmeeting
Tiny Font Size (tiny_fontsize)
- The plugin allows users to resize the font.
- Read more: https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_fontsize
✨New features developed by Mediamaisteri
Mark as a favourite function
Allows you to mark courses as your favourite with a heart icon. The favourite heart icon is displayed in the course blocks, as well as on the course page.
It is possible to display user favourites:
- Desktop Favourites block
- On the front page in the Courses tracker block (separate setting)
NOTE! The Favourites function is not enabled by default. The site administrator can turn on the Favourites feature from the Theme settings:
Topic settings > Course default settings > Favourite courses
Further development of the Tiny MCE editor
Mediamaisteri developed a feature that allows to use "Atto-styles" styles also in the Tiny MCE text editor. The styles are imported for use via Tiny's C4L plug-in. Existing Atto-styles will automatically be displayed in the Tiny editor.
📝New course template for a self-paced online course
A new template is added to the range of course templates: the "Course Template for a self-paced online course"
The course template provides a simplified model to help you create a self-study online course. It includes tips on how to produce course content and how to keep the content clear and easy to navigate.
It also includes reproducible examples of activities, links to help and tips on how to use the different tools.
✅ Theme improvements and corrections
- Possibility to influence the colouring of H5P tool elements (buttons, progress bar) through theme settings. Colours are not automatically applied, but are defined individually. In future development, a function will be added to enable the settings to be applied automatically. If you want to have colours enabled in your environment immediately, please contact Mediamaisteri support.
- Unified the icon styles of the activities in the Maisteri LMS package to be similar.
- Redesigned layout of management tools
Other changes to the add-ons
Listed below are the other main changes and fixes to the Mediamaisteri add-ons.
Easylink (auth_easylink)
- Support for customised profile fields
Customized course lists(block_mmcustomcourselists)
- Percentage calculator correction
Course offerer (block_mmflix)
- Breakpoint correction
- Arrow styles correction
- Added support for virtual 'favorites' category
- Percentage counter fix
Customizable navigation block (block_mmslick)
- Fixed settings related to the progress bar of block settings
- New setting to specify the width of cards when a single card is selected
- Fixed arrow style
- Percentage calculator correction. Use the same calculation method for the performance percentage as in the theme.
Tagcloud (block_tagcloud)
- Eye-closed icon & grey text for hidden courses
- Fixed "found courses" text when ticked
- Used the same calculation method for the completion rate as in the theme.
Export/import of completions (local_completion_import)
- Syntax check for date in the import phase
mReports (local_reports)
- Improved translations of the settings page
- Course.php report left side coloring clarification
Automatic deletion of useraccounts (local_user_expire)
- Corrected language translation for the text "include suspended"
Reporting (local_mreports)
- Added 'number of courses' report as default on desktop
Archiving courses (local_course_archive)
- Removed the Maisteriboost theme from the dependencies, as it is desired that the plugin can be used without the Maisteriboost theme.
- Filling in the new timearchived field as an adhoc task. Speed up compared to the previous one when the change is done in the background.
- Archiving message to a specified address if there are no teachers in the course
Reminder message before automatic archiving
Course templates (local_course_templates)
- Excess course base off
- Removed three obsolete template bases
- New template "Self-paced online course"
