May 2025 new features

Spring 2025 Maisteri LMS Release – What’s New?

The Spring 2025 update brings a set of upgrades that make the learning platform more powerful, clearer to navigate and more learner-friendly.

✨Try it yourself in the Mediamaisteri demo site and explore the latest version.

🚀 Release highlights

• 🗓️ Moodle 4.5 – The May release is built on Moodle 4.5 LTS, introducing a redesigned architecture for Artificial Intelligence.

• ✨ Moodle AI Subsystem:  A core API that lets you plug in AI services (e.g. OpenAI, Azure AI) to generate and summarise course content.

• ✏️ TinyMCE as default: Replaces Atto. Ships with an in-browser Screen Recorder (max 120 seconds).

• 📦 Core H5P tool: The separate H5P plugin will be phased out; all new content is created via the new core H5P tool.

• 📂 Course Subsections: Lets teachers group topics or activities into clear sub-units – ideal for large courses.

• 🧭 New “Custom Sections” course format: Enables a more logical, visually tidy course structure.

• 📐 Improved course page: Easier content management: indentation, bulk-edit actions and a cleaner view.

👇 Read more about the AI Subsystem, TinyMCE and H5P below. 

✨ Moodle AI Subsystem – Integrating AI into the Learning Environment

The new AI Subsystem lets you connect external AI services to Moodle. Teachers can generate text, images and summaries directly in course pages. Administrators decide where and how AI is available. Providers supported at launch include OpenAI and Azure AI.

✏️ TinyMCE – Default editor + Screen Recorder

TinyMCE is now the default text editor in Maisteri LMS. A built-in Screen Recorder lets you capture up to two-minute videos straight from the browser – no extra plugins required.

📦 Migration to the core H5P tool

Maisteri LMS moves to Moodle’s core H5P activity. The old plugin will be retired gradually. New H5P content can only be created via the Content bank; existing activities continue to work after the upgrade.

🔧 Other changes

🧩 Mediamaisteri plugin updates

More than 30 in-house plugins were updated. Highlights:

• EasyLink – improved user management and CSV import.
• Quick-Link Tools – new archive settings, clearer error messages.
• Theme – UI and layout fixes; self-registration welcome message disabled by default.
• Learning Diary – better performance, new settings, subsection support.

❌ Plugins being deprecated

• Scheduler (mod_scheduler) → Korvattu Organisoija-lisäosalla – poistuu kokonaan 12/2025. 

• Legacy Learning Diary (mod_learningdiary) → Migrate to new learning diary (mmlearningdiary)

• Grid Catalogue block (block_mmgridcatalogue) → No new instances after 05/2025; removed by 2026
  
  

📁 Where to find full Release Notes

📝 A complete change log is published for every Maisteri LMS release:
Support Portal › Knowledge base › Release notes.

Stay informed! Contact Mediamaisteri Support for more details or assistance with upgrading to the new version.