The problems we fix, written up honestly enough that you can fix some of them yourself. New guides and free Moodle plugins land here.
Access windows live in a few places in Moodle. Our free Access Expiry & Enrolment Duration plugin sets them from one place — by scope, per learner, with reminders and a safe, auditable rollout.
Moodle has no core screen for one learner's grades across every course, and unenrolled learners vanish. The SQL to pull them — plus Grade Lookup, our free report that does it in a click.
Cohort sync has no expiry date (MDL-53236), so memberships last forever. The guarded, batched cron script that removes cohort members after 365 days — safely.
Moodle's automated backups ate 6 TB because backup_auto_min_kept was higher than the backup count, so deletion never fired. The one-setting fix, verified.
Completion is on but the course never marks complete? The cause: zero rows in mdl_course_completion_criteria. The SQL to confirm it and the complete fix.
Unenrol deletes live Moodle grades but archives them in mdl_grade_grades_history. Recover them with one function call — no recompute, no backup restore.
Cohort sync can't set enrolment end dates. Use enrol_manual with timeend — access shuts off at the deadline, no cron, records kept for reporting.
No copy button exists for customcert designs. The copy_to_template() script that clones a certificate between Moodle courses exactly, plus a rollback plan.
Fixing Moodle's add_moduleinfo Column 'module' cannot be null: the missing numeric id, the transaction trap that hides real errors, and working CLI code.
Only a mongodump archive left of your edX course? How to extract the structure and every uploaded file from split modulestore and GridFS — no full restore.
Moodle 4.1 and 4.4 security support ended December 8, 2025. Your three realistic upgrade paths, what each costs, and an upgrade-readiness checklist you can run today.
The definitive troubleshooting guide to SCORM completions that never record: the 7 real causes, how to confirm each one, and the fixes.