Hi Everyone,
We’re pleased to announce the release of Moodle LMS 5.2.

This release focuses on making courses clearer and easier to follow, improving how you manage assessment and reporting, and continuing to strengthen the platform for the future.

Behind every new feature, improvement, and fix are the contributions of our global Moodle community, our partners, and the Moodle LMS team. Thank you to everyone who helped bring Moodle LMS 5.2 to life.

Here’s what’s new in Moodle LMS 5.2

🪜 Clearer course structure and activity experience
Moodle LMS 5.2 makes course expectations and structure easier to understand. Restricted content is now more transparent, with dedicated pages that clearly show availability conditions. Activity pages have also been refreshed, with improved completion signals, clearer placement of key actions, better date visibility, and more consistent structure.

Why this matters: Educators can design courses that are easier to follow, helping learners understand what to do, what to expect, and how to move forward.

📊 Better tools for assessment and reporting
Updates to the question bank, report builder, and grading workflows make assessments easier to organise and manage. Question categories are simpler to edit and move, reporting includes more flexible filtering and clearer feedback, and new multi-marker workflows support collaborative grading.

Why this matters: Spend less time managing assessments and reports, and gain consistent, reliable insight into learner progress.

⚙️ A more modern, future-ready Moodle platform
Moodle LMS 5.2 continues important technical platform improvements, including the introduction of React foundations in core, closer alignment with the Moodle Design System, and support for installation using Composer.

Why this matters: These changes strengthen the foundation of Moodle LMS, making it more consistent, maintainable, and ready for future improvements.

Other improvements

In addition to these core updates, Moodle LMS 5.2 includes a wide range of improvements designed to make everyday work in your Moodle platform simpler and more efficient, including:

• Better defaults and first-time experiences: A more useful dashboard, clearer navigation, and improved login flows help users get to their courses faster.
• Smoother course editing and management: Faster handling of large courses and options like duplicating subsections make course building and admin more efficient.
• More AI flexibility: Expanded AI provider support (including Gemini and AWS Bedrock) gives you more choice in how AI fits your environment and policies.

Moodle LMS 5.2 also includes many more updates across usability, collaboration, mobile support, and platform simplification — each designed to save time and reduce friction in day-to-day workflows. You can explore the New features documentation for a full overview, or, for more technical details, review the developer update.

Come and see Moodle LMS 5.2 for yourself

Want to see how these updates come together in practice? Join us!

📅 Designing for success: Simplifying the learner journey in Moodle LMS 5.2

Taking place on Thursday, 23 April at 2:00pm CEST (GMT+2), this session explores what’s changed and why it matters, with practical examples across course flow, navigation, restricted content, and assessment.

👉 Register now (Can’t attend live? Sign up and we’ll send you the recording.)

Thank you for being part of the Moodle community and thank you for all of your contributions.

Kind regards,
Matt Porritt
Product Director, Platform Solutions

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At Moodle, we believe open education technology is key to creating a more equitable world, and as the world’s most trusted open-source learning platform, we’re powered by a global community of educators, developers, and partners who help make learning more accessible and impactful. To further this mission, we’re excited to announce the upcoming Moodle Marketplace launching mid 2026, which will replace the current Plugins Directory as the official platform for discovering and accessing free and paid solutions that integrate seamlessly with Moodle.

All free plugins from the current directory will be featured in Moodle Marketplace, and developers can now also list paid plugins. By supporting paid plugins, we aim to foster a more sustainable plugin ecosystem, giving developers the resources to maintain, improve, and support their work over the long term. This helps ensure that the plugins our users rely on remain high quality, secure, and compatible with future updates, while also encouraging innovation and a wider range of solutions for the Moodle community.

How to submit your plugin:

The onboarding site is now officially open for developers -> Visit the page to learn more about the process and submit your paid plugins for review.

Why join Moodle Marketplace early:

• Be part of the launch buzz – Early submissions go live when traffic and interest are at their peak.

• Access a built-in audience – Thousands of organisations are already looking for high-quality, trusted plugins.

• Boost credibility – Listing on Moodle’s official Marketplace demonstrates your plugin meets Moodle’s standards and quality checks.

• Simplify sales – Integrated payments and invoicing make selling easy, secure, and scalable.

• Help shape the experience – Early providers can give feedback and influence the Marketplace journey.

We can’t wait to see your solutions on Moodle Marketplace and welcome you to this exciting new chapter for the community!

Marion Bret - Head of Technology Partnerships at Moodle

Greetings Moodle Community!

We are pleased to announce that we will be implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across our Moodle community sites as part of our ongoing commitment to maintaining a safe, secure, and spam-free platform for our community.

Why We're Implementing This Change

Spam accounts and automated bots continue to be a growing challenge across the web, and our community sites are no exception. These accounts can disrupt discussions, flood forums with irrelevant content, and degrade the overall experience for legitimate members. By adding MFA as an additional layer of security, we believe we can significantly reduce the ability of bad actors to create and operate fraudulent accounts on our platforms.

A Quick Overview of MFA

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) requires users to verify their identity using two or more verification methods when logging in. Typically these verification methods are something you know, such as your password, and something you have, such as a one-time code sent to your email, phone or generated by an authenticator app. This makes it much harder for unauthorized users and bots to gain access.

Timing of the Change

On Tuesday February 24, 2026 at 0600 GMT Moodle will enable MFA across its community sites. Once enabled, you will be prompted to complete a quick verification step each time you log in. Upon login you will be prompted to enter a verification code that will be sent to the email address associated with the account you are using to access the site. The process is simple and takes only a few seconds. 

Thank you for being a valued member of our Moodle community. This change is a direct investment in the quality and security of the spaces we share together.