Release
Level Maps 1.2: ready-made designs, paths and Moodle 5.3
Level Maps 1.2 starts every new course with a ready-made design, works without uploaded images, adds paths as a second way to show a course and brings subsections onto the map. For Moodle 4.5 LTS and 5.1 to 5.3.
- Published
- 12 November 2026
- Version
- 1.2
- Runs on
- Moodle 4.5, 5.1 – 5.3
- Plugin
- Level Maps
Level Maps 1.2 makes a course look finished from the first minute: new courses start with a ready-made design, levels and activities work without a single uploaded image, and paths offer a second way to show a course. It supports Moodle 4.5 LTS and Moodle 5.1 to 5.3.
Ready-made designs
Choose a ready-made design for the course page, the levels and the activities in the course setting Design. New courses start with the bundled Standard design. You can still customise single levels and activities, and managers can upload further designs as ZIP packages.
Paths
A second kind of design: instead of the carousel and the level maps, the course page shows every level as a path of its activities on paper. Exercise book, Notebook and Timeline come with the plugin. Nothing needs to be placed: activities show their state and stars for their grade, subsections open in place, and a button leads to the next activity.
Subsections on the map
A subsection is a pin on the map of its level, shows the progress of its activities and opens a map of its own. A design can bring several subsection maps, which the subsections of a course use in turn.
Level maps without images
Levels without images get a generated map and a tile with the level number. Activities without images show their Moodle icon in a ring that shows their state (next, completed, locked) and follow a path on the map until you place them.
Immersive level maps
A site setting shows learners the level maps without the navigation bars, drawers and footer of the site. The home button of the map leads back to the course page.
Start page and site home
A course opens on the course page, on a specific level, or on the first level the learner hasn’t completed yet. A course in the Levels format can also be the home page of your site.
Popups that zoom in
With the Popups format, the popup of an activity can zoom in from the activity on the map (course setting Zoom activities into popups, off by default). The course content now only reloads after activities that can change the map.
Smoother level maps
Level maps show at once, without a loading screen: activities fade in, and after a popup closes they update in place. Learners move the maps by dragging, with the mouse wheel or touchpad, or with the map buttons, without scroll bars. On the course page, the level to work on next glows.
Positions that hold
Setup Positions shows the map in its original size, as learners see it, so activities stay in their place on every screen and with every theme.
Guides in Moodle
Guides for teachers, learners, administrators and design creators come with the plugin. With the Documentation Center installed, they appear in Moodle on the pages they belong to.
Fixes for Moodle 5
Level maps work on Moodle 5 (tooltips, page loader), and the drawers stay at the sides of the page on Moodle 5.3. Pages no longer jump by the height of the navigation bars, subsections are no longer shown as levels, and the course background image stays when a course is changed outside its settings.
Security hardening
Images are only served to users who can access them, only users who can manage levels change positions, and names in tooltips are escaped.
Moodle 4.5 LTS, 5.1 to 5.3
Level Maps 1.2 supports Moodle 4.5, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3; sites on Moodle 4.4 or earlier stay on Level Maps 1.1. Subsections need the Subsection activity, popups the Popups format. On Moodle 5.2 and later, the Popups format doesn’t show the button for manual completion yet, so learners mark such activities as done on the activity page.
Check your level maps
Level Maps 1.1 placed activities relative to the content column of the theme, 1.2 places them on the map. The upgrade converts the positions, and so does the restore of a 1.1 backup: check your level maps afterwards and correct single activities with Setup Positions. Non-editing teachers no longer place activities; give their role format/levels:managelevels again if they should. Existing courses keep their images, only new courses start with a design. Back up your site before upgrading, as always.
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