Moodle in English: How to tell the Moodle version if you're not an admin

How to tell the Moodle version if you're not an admin

by Przemek Kaszubski - Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 2:27 AM

Maybe someone will find this a useful tip for exactly that - finding out which Moodle version you''re using if you're not an admin.

Non-admins have no access to the notifications panel and the site administration.

Of course you can always try to message / email the admin of the site and ask, but - as long as you teach in at least one course on the site - there is a way to get the full info directly. The trick is to backup any activity inside a course in which you are teacher. Then download the backup mbz file, open it as an ordinary archive (which it is - it's a zip file after all), and then open the moodle_backup.xml file. You should find the "moodle_version" and "moodle_release" tags with all the information near the top.

I thought I'd share this tip, maybe there are other ways, but I've just recently helped myself discover the Moodle version on a site I was teaching in.

Przemek

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Re: How to tell the Moodle version if you're not an admin

by ben reynolds - Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 2:55 AM

The release version tag looks to me to be the most useful, as it goes beyond the simple "2.6" But, I wonder how to find a list of release versions. Googling Moodle 2013111800 did not get me to a list though it did lead me to a forum that said that that release version is 2.6.0.

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Re: How to tell the Moodle version if you're not an admin

by Matteo Scaramuccia - Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 3:55 AM

Hi Ben,
you can find the full list here: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases.

BTW, you can read about that tag in any email sent by a Moodle instance; just look at the mail headers, e.g. in an email from moodle.org:

X-Mailer: PHPMailer Moodle 2014111003 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)

HTH,
Matteo

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Re: How to tell the Moodle version if you're not an admin

by Mary Cooch (personal account) - Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 4:01 AM

If your theme has not hidden Moodle documentation and you're using the English docs, you can find your Moodle version by going to the Moodle docs for this page link at the bottom of the page and clicking there. It won't tell you 2.8.1 2.8.2 2.8.3 but it will give you the whole numbers - from 2.0 onwards.

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Re: How to tell the Moodle version if you're not an admin

by Przemek Kaszubski - Sunday, 22 February 2015, 9:08 PM

Just reviewed the criteria for Useful Moodlers at https://moodle.org/user/index.php?id=5&group=1 , and found that my original post in this dicussion will not count . Pity , especially since the point has been discussed a lot recently - https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278103 .