We are pleased to announce the Open LMS 3.6 release is coming!
Availability
Release to production July 11th, 2019. The release time depends on your location and time zone:
- North America, Central America, South America (Virginia, USA datacenter): Clients will be upgraded according to their data center timezone:
- Eastern, Amazon and Newfoundland-Labrador Timezones: July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM EDT
- Central Timezone: July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM CDT
- Mountain and Pacific Timezones: July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM PDT
- South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil datacenter): July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM BRT
- EMEA (Frankfurt datacenter): July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM CEST
- APAC excluding Australia and New Zealand (Singapore datacenter): July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM SGT
- Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, AU datacenter): July 11th at 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM AEST
Non-Production Sites Upgrade Schedule
To improve the quality of the upgrade process and shorten the production upgrade window, non-production (sandbox) sites will be upgraded on Thursday, June 13th, 2019, between 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT.
Downtime will be required for your production and non-production sites during this window.
What’s new
In this release, we focused on the following:
- Upgrade to Moodle Core 3.6.3
- Improved course overview
- New dashboard blocks
- New messaging interface
- Audio and video feedback
- New Classic theme
- Snap color contrast checker
- New Personalized Learning Designer event based on the course start dates
- Snap favorite upgrade
- New Snap UX, UI, and Accessibility improvements
- Important information about Clean and More themes
- Special considerations for vendor plugins
- Updated plugins
View the Open LMS 3.6 release notes