Key Dates: Moodle Upgrade, Snapshots, Late Summer Assessments (2019)

Over the summer there will be a number of outages and changes to the Moodle service. These are needed to deliver:

• A Moodle version upgrade
• Yearly Moodle Shapshot and consolidation of previous Snapshots to ensure GDPR compliance
• URL changes will also be made

A summary of the outages, changes and timelines is provided in the table below:

Moodle Summer Upgrade Overview

DATE	WHAT IS HAPPENING	DETAILS
25 June 2019 – 11 July 2019	Moodle Snapshot service at risk	the number of Moodle Snapshots will be reduced from 7 to 5 years to comply with GDPR data retention requirements
6 – 7 July 2019	Legacy Moodle to become the 17/18 Snapshot	the link to the Moodle 17/18 Snapshot will now be under the Services drop down menu on Moodle
8 July 2019	Link to Legacy Moodle (Moodle 17/18) will be removed from the UCL Moodle front page	the link to the Moodle 17/18 Snapshot (Legacy Moodle) will now be under the Services drop down menu on Moodle
26 – 27 July 2019	Moodle service outage	upgrade from Moodle 3.4 to Moodle 3.7 yearly 18/19 Snapshot will be taken 18/19 Snapshot will be made available for Late Summer Assessments (LSA) until 20/09/2019
28 July 2019	URL changes	https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk will take you to a new selection page where you can access both live Moodle and Moodle 18/19 for Late Summer Assessments https://moodle-1819.ucl.ac.uk will redirect to https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk please update your bookmarks/links to point to https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk as this will be the URL for Moodle in the future
27 – 29 July 2019	Moodle service at risk	avoid any time bound activities such as quizzes or assignments with deadlines that occur during this period
20 September 2019	https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk will take you directly to live Moodle	the link to the Moodle 18/19 Snapshot will now be under the Services drop down menu on Moodle

Moodle Summer Upgrade Timeline

 

We apologise for any inconvenience the outages and changes cause.

If you have any questions, please contact digi-ed@ucl.ac.uk