Hosting Moodle™ LMS

3.11.1
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
11 Juli - 330MBSecurity fixes

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version. 



Changes

Quicklist items broken and cannot be used in PDF Annotator

Tab characters in event names produce malformed JSON in mustache template

Linkedin Authentication Stopped working

Nextcloud integration should allow the use of aliases to files in repository

SVG files are images and should be allowed for course images, drag-drop questions, etc.

Add an activity or resource link always visible in 3.11+

Quiz manual grading: page size preference can get stuck at 0

Forum and Lesson do not allow a change to max grade after a grade has been given

Grade item inconsistencies can break courses with courses with activities that require grade

The content in the Grader report table is partly covered by the scrollbar in RTL mode

Classic theme - unable to place blocks in Right region of activity modules

Grade validation failure causes loss of feedback comments

The cursor position is not correct when paste HTML in Atto editor

Integrate jsdoc into Grunt and allow for JS Documentation to be generated

In Survey activity the Response report -> Question doesn't work at all

User fields: new PROFILE_VISIBLE_TEACHERS constant not supported

File upload still gets stuck if try to leave page mid-upload

Checkboxes/Radio Buttons within multiple choice questions become invisible or shrink

Locally assigned roles no longer searches email address

Quiz review: names not shown on Manual grading screens

Quiz should use Moodle's mechanism for keeping the session alive

The indentation of the text must be corrected in the notice of time limit when starting a quiz

Add mform validation for invalid url when importing a calendar

In the "Edit quiz" page, don't stick together the "Repaginate" and the "Select multiple items" button

Quiz overview report runs out of memory with huge courses

Drag and Drop Marker Question Type: Saves incorrect marker positions or lost markers

Export Calendar buttons become inactive after pressing 'Export' (as file)

Enrol users: Cannot search by username

Browse list of users page error when sorting by custom user field

Selected potential group member are not highlighted properly

Block deletion timeouts can occur on large sites



Accessibility

Localize hard coded aria-label strings in table pagination and role manager

Menus opened by Atto buttons are announced as dialog box by screen-readers

File picker – folder view file details not available using keyboard (Enter)

Atto buttons do not have proper focus indicator

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.11.1_release_notes






3.11
 (Hauptversion)
17 Mai - 330MBSecurity

Provide admin setting type for secure data (passwords/tokens)

Add logging when auth config is automatically changed due to config/filesystem mismatch

Reduce ability to fingerprint a server with a htaccess-dist / nginx file / docs

Allow antivirus scanners to specify the message to the user

Log changes to the message notifications settings

Allow plugins to augment the cURL security helper via callback

Reduce information disclosure from TCPDF version

Log changes to auth plugin settings in config log

Display user email address visibility settings on their own profile



Improve student activity completion

Define sort ordering for completion conditions

Update the course homepage to display the activity information

Implement the activity dates functionality for each activity and output them in view.php

Create a base class for fetching a user's activity completion details

Create a base class for fetching an activity's dates that are relevant for a given user

Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 1

Implement the completion details functionality for each activity plugins output them in view.php - Part 2

Review and update existing web services to return the new fields and exported information from activities

Activity completion fallback for third party plugins

Remove duplicate activity dates

Deprecate the *_get_completion_state() callbacks

Create user tours for the activity information output component



Brickfield accessibility toolkit

Brickfield Education Labs accessibility toolkit core integration



Badges

Make Moodle OBv2.1 implementation compliant

Add new "IMS OBv2.1" OAuth 2 service

Remove "Backpack settings" site administration page and improve UI

Improve resolution of badge image sent to external backpacks and used when duplicating badges



Content bank and H5P

Add ability to disable specified H5P content types

Create a task to clean up unused H5P content

Allow admins to set the default returntype in repository_contentbank

Update content bank upload button to open file picker in a popup instead of new page

Option to make a content bank item unlisted

Open H5P file from H5P activity when it was added as a reference

Content bank should provide info on the number of places where content is used and warn you when deleting



Assignment

Assignment comments should be also saved when clicking 'save changes' in the assignment grader page

Allow mod_assign download all assignments to be streamed

Assignment name filter preference should only affect current assignment's view

Implement Poppler pdftoppm compatibility for faster assignment submission PDF to PNG conversion

Add 'Draft' filter to assignment grading table



Quiz and questions

Add Plagiarism support to essay questions

Questions: Default options when creating a question

Add default options for essay question type

Add default options for ddimageortext, ddmarker and match question types

Display pass grade on quiz front page

Add optional min/max word count limits to Essay question type

Read-only view of quiz settings overrides

Improve manual grading of quiz essay answers - web page format

Manual grading of automatically graded questions: show computer grading

Add default options for numerical question type using user-preferences

In a newly created quiz, prevent "Edit quiz" and "Back to the course" buttons sticking together

Quiz override screens should show user identity fields

Quiz review: name the person who made each change in the question response history (if not the student)



Accessibility improvements

Improve accessibility of profile images

Make it possible to style toast notifications



Usability improvements

Create an output component that displays an activity's information for a user

More filtering options on Activity Completion Report

UX Review of session expired timeout modal

Add year to messaging conversation date headings, if not the current year

Show confirmation when profile changes are saved

Add ability to search country field on Participants page

Default the participants page filtering to "ALL"

Improve notification preferences on/off buttons so they fit better with non-English strings

OAuth2: Display login errors on the login page

LTI: Support Course dates substitution parameters

Create landing page for the reports link in the secondary navigation

Update message preferences of a user as admin to use consistent toggle icons

Add support for keyboard hotkeys in VideoJS

Always show the close button on the message drawer



Other highlights

Functional changes

Convert user profile fields for messaging/networking into custom profile fields

Enable playbackrates for videojs

Allow user profile fields to be specified as user identity fields - New code is backwards-compatible, but report code should be updated.

Remove "Enable activity chooser" user preference

Update Google Drive repository to allow Shared drive files

Option to not include permissions overrides when importing or restoring a backup

Backup and Restore lastaccess to course

Remove option to hide a group picture

Differentiate between grade as a noun and grade as a verb in the UI texts

Add custom user field support to group management screens

Add an option to display section names in Section link block



For administrators

Move Microsoft, Facebook and NextCloud OAuth2 services to new, reorganised architecture

Add a "Replace filter" option on the admin browse users page

Ability to force cron scheduled task definitions in config.php (schedule and disabled)

Create a CLI script to reset user dashboards

Improve the web services tokens management to allow searching and filtering

Check for removed files before CLI upgrade

Add ability to switch off session lock debugging

Implement a renderer for progress_bar in cli output

Allow disabled tasks to be run from the GUI

Add the ability to configure OAuth2 services for login only; add login display name

Update the ClamAV default behaviour when an error occurs

Use Dynamic Registration to allow Tools to update to LTI Advantage

Payment service consumers should be able to specify url after payment

Make it easier to find a specific component in template library

Allow searching of available language packs

Add showdebugging and showsql options to admin/cli/uninstall_plugins.php

Config change event should link to config change report

Sort capabilities in capability overview tool



Mobile

Add a new option in Moodle app "Disabled features" for preventing the new LTI launch in the app

Include option for testing Push notifications in a site



Performance

mod/folder/download_folder.php should be a streaming zip download

Make my_reset_page_for_all_users for dashboards more robust

Implement cleanup of analytics_indicator_calc stores table

Extend the 'backup_cleanup_task' scheduled task to remove old files

Cache course image in the course_summary_exporter

Allow redis session store to use zip or zStd for compression like redis MUC

Running a scheduled task in the GUI should unlock the session

Eliminate DB queries in mod/glossary/settings.php

Update language pack installs / updates to run asynchronously to avoid timeouts when multiple are used



For developers

New sql_group_concat db method

Add module for displaying moodleform in a modal window

Upgrade PHPUnit to 9.5.x

Improve the readonly session debugging message

HTTP 503 Service Not Available is returned by exceptions and should be 500 instead

Upgrade boost to use Bootstrap latest version

Restore backup: add getter method for oldmoduleid

Support large number of SQL-IN parameters in Postgres

Preserve form data when purging individual caches

Move user_fields from core to core_user



Web service additions and updates

Add ability for "get enrolled users" web service to be filtered by suspended users

Create a new endpoint (script) to retrieve draft files from web services

Create web service to trigger report_viewed event for H5P activities

Create H5P activity web service to get the list of students that attempted an activity

New web service core_files_get_unused_draft_itemid

Return quiz pass grade via web services

Update mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service to return the last_modified attribute

Batch create API for grade categories

All new external functions implementation classes should use execute as the method name, in which case the methodname property should not be specified in db/services.php file



Deprecations

Deprecate unused backpack js functions

Deprecate get_forum_discussions_paginated webservice

Phase 2 of deprecation of functions in lib/deprecatedlib.php initially deprecated in 3.7

Final deprecation for analytics methods deprecated in MDL-64783

Final deprecation of i_dock_block()

Final deprecation of \core_analytics\manager::add_builtin_models()

get_enabled_time_splitting_methods final deprecation

Final deprecation of behat_base::TIMEOUT and related constants

Remove message/defaultoutputs.php and final deprecation of admin_page_manageqbehaviours class

Final deprecation of booktool_print_get_toc()

Final deprecation of enrol/database/cli/sync.php



Component API updates

admin/upgrade.txt

analytics/upgrade.txt

auth/shibboleth/upgrade.txt

backup/upgrade.txt

badges/upgrade.txt

blocks/section_links/upgrade.txt

blocks/tag_youtube/upgrade.txt

completion/upgrade.txt

contentbank/upgrade.txt

course/upgrade.txt

customfield/upgrade.txt

enrol/database/upgrade.txt

enrol/upgrade.txt

group/upgrade.txt

h5p/upgrade.txt

lib/upgrade.txt

mod/book/upgrade.txt

mod/feedback/upgrade.txt

mod/forum/upgrade.txt

mod/h5pactivity/upgrade.txt

mod/quiz/upgrade.txt

payment/upgrade.txt

plagiarism/upgrade.txt

question/type/upgrade.txt

report/upgrade.txt

repository/upgrade.txt

theme/upgrade.txt

user/upgrade.txt

webservice/upgrade.txt

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.11_release_notes






3.10.5
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
15 Juli - 330MBSecurity

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version. 



Changes

Quicklist items broken and cannot be used in PDF Annotator

Tab characters in event names produce malformed JSON in mustache template

Linkedin Authentication Stopped working

Nextcloud integration should allow the use of aliases to files in repository

SVG files are images and should be allowed for course images, drag-drop questions, etc.

Quiz manual grading: page size preference can get stuck at 0

Forum and Lesson do not allow a change to max grade after a grade has been given

The content in the Grader report table is partly covered by the scrollbar in RTL mode

Classic theme - unable to place blocks in Right region of activity modules

Grade validation failure causes loss of feedback comments

The cursor position is not correct when paste HTML in Atto editor

Integrate jsdoc into Grunt and allow for JS Documentation to be generated

In Survey activity the Response report -> Question doesn't work at all

ChartJS quiz overview report should display numerical ranges LTR also for RTL languages

File upload still gets stuck if try to leave page mid-upload

Checkboxes/Radio Buttons within multiple choice questions become invisible or shrink

Quiz should use Moodle's mechanism for keeping the session alive

The indentation of the text must be corrected in the notice of time limit when starting a quiz

Add mform validation for invalid url when importing a calendar

In the "Edit quiz" page, don't stick together the "Repaginate" and the "Select multiple items" button

Quiz overview report runs out of memory with huge courses

Drag and Drop Marker Question Type: Saves incorrect marker positions or lost markers

Export Calendar buttons become inactive after pressing 'Export' (as file)

Duplicates 'Current category' text in edit question form

Selected potential group member are not highlighted properly

Block deletion timeouts can occur on large sites



Accessibility

Localize hard coded aria-label strings in table pagination and role manager

Menus opened by Atto buttons are announced as dialog box by screen-readers

File picker – folder view file details not available using keyboard (Enter)

Atto buttons do not have proper focus indicator

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.10.5_release_notes






3.10.4
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
10 Mai - 330MBSecurity

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version. 



Improvements

Upgrade step from MDL-67494 corrupts calendar events

Atto does not generate UL tags when pasting LI tags

H5P has namespace overlap with mod_hvp, causing unexpected behavior

When an assignment is frozen students cannot see their submission

Rubric and Marking Guide gray boxes and unclear error if configured incorrectly

File upload navigation warning not protecting all uploads and interacts with double-submit protection

"Students who have not accessed the course recently" insights should not be generated for hidden courses

Error with forum_discussionlistsortorder during privacy process

H5P `mod/h5pactivity:submit` capability incorrectly used

Import succeeds unintentionally if csv file contains id which has number and string mixed

Change site registration notifications and newsletter subscriptions to opt-in checkbox

Link to mod_label redirects to the course, not to the label

Safe Exam Browser - deeper integration - The information you're about to submit is not secure

Cannot send message to all users in participation report

The notification after uploading a grading worksheet is inaccurate

Wrong content type when exporting user tours

Filters not applied to rubric name

When copying a course, mod_folder settings are copied incorrectly

Course report log for user displays course name instead of users name in header

Course custom field data remains as default values

Incorrect error message on course custom field 'text' page

Flickr public repository not displaying file information

MoodleNet profile not being validated properly when linking through the activity chooser

Assignment submission status info should not be displayed for teachers

Autocomplete elements in course participant filters obscure text inputs

Fix review mode in the H5P activity

Set the default returntype in repository_contentbank (Backport of MDL-70429)

Backpack API and URL should support more than 50 characters

Content bank content's author is not restored when copying a course

Q&A forums incorrectly display a "post cannot be viewed by you" error in some circumstances

Some course report pages are displaying only the users's first name



Accessibility

File picker: Focus lost after 'Create folder'

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.10.4_release_notes



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3.10.3
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
31 März - 330MBSecurity improvements

Usernames or emails can be enumerated under certain conditions with $CFG->protectusernames on



Regression fix

Revert latest calendar/data request changes (revert MDL-67494)



Other fixes

It's possible to send an empty message to course participants



Accessibility improvements

Folder: Unnecessary tab stops to the left of files

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.10.3_release_notes






3.10.2
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
8 März - 330MBSecurity fixes

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version



Changes

The default group icon should not be displayed when there is no group picture

Uninstalled plugin breaks the custom lang tool if it had some strings customised

Switch all the Behat testing to the new W3C drivers

VideoJS language doesn't fallback to en

Pages during a quiz attempt should not be cached, so forwards/back do not lead to errors

Unable to delete scales which are no longer used

Dropbox repository requires log on to work - which fails

count_words returns too few words when dealing with html tags

Dropbox Search API: /files/search is being retired in favor of /files/search_v2

Marking workflow display wrong current grade if using scales

Unable to load Marking Guide Templates

Moodle word count does not match other software

Essay question: "Accepted file types" and other new fields are not supported in Moodle XML file

When reviewing an attempt as a teacher $string['saved'] {$a} not replaced

Archived badges are restored during course restore

Workshop assessment aspect with no grade is unusable

Poor performance of zip_packer::extract_to_pathname()

Editing a calendar event of type category and removing the category results in an error

Undefined variable: href when creating IMSCP

Activity chooser does not honour external tool icons

File picker:Right align table column headers, in RTL mode (theme:boost)

Quiz manual grading page should warn if you try to leave with unsaved data

Multilang Filters not applied to Recent blog entries block Blog entry titles

Notification of submissions are not sent for anonymous feedback

Cloze multianswer question leaks percentage if with decimal

Grade percentage display in Gradebook should be LTR, in RTL mode

Downloaded course content unbrowseable for some activity names

Cannot access H5P content bank popup in Atto editor within mod_data textarea

badges/oauth2callback.php should be removed and replaced by admin/oauth2callback.php

Badge expiry error and missing expired stamp

Course/activity calendar events are deleted when the teacher who created them requests their data to be deleted

Group names not formatted in course participants filter

Unable to scroll beyond 50 conversations in Messages tool

Language filters aren't correctly applied in "Whole forum grading"



Accessibility

Login page accessibility issues

Checkbox and advanced checkbox elements can have duplicate labels

Dashboard accessibility issues

Accessibility #11 Content appears above “show more” button

Question bank highlight of last added question is wrong in boost

Site home page accessibility issues

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.10.2_release_notes






3.10.1
 (Sicherheitsupdate)
18 Januar - 330MBGeneral fixes and improvements

Automatically submitted quiz attempts: finish time is set to when cron ran, not when the attempt ended

The "Select all X users" button doesn't activate the drop-down menu in Participants Page

SCORM error in Chrome because of "XHR in page dismissal" policy change

Course overview (my courses block) pagination is broken beyond the second page

Rubric display layout issue, after students feedback is released

Lesson module error on save - Cannot find grade item for 'lesson'

Redis server issues break cache configuration page

The MDL-69687 upgrade step kills large databases

Custom field values in course overview block follow incorrect order

Non-editing teacher should be able to download course participants list

Reduce the number of phpunit runs in core's .travis.yml

Illegible css coloring of correct/incorrect div

Duplication items in drag-onto-image question

Add support for github actions to moodle.git

Multilang Filters not applied to Calendar block

[Youtube Plugin] Selecting a category results in error

View conversation link does not work when grading in full screen mode

Available language packs unsorted, difficult to locate

H5P corrupts USER object, causing forum error

Drag-drop markers questions: infinite markers keep duplicating

Quiz add questions from question bank: problem with paging & show all

codingerror in Global Search when "search within enrolled courses only" is set

OAuth2 system account's refresh token does not get updated due to a typo

Write new keyboard steps for Behat

Question type Drag and Drop: drop zone disappear in special case

Incorrect HTML escaping on the override permissions screen

Upload Courses tool breaks on locked custom fields

Qtype_essay file-size limit: it says "0 bytes" for students when "Site upload limit" is set

On mobile, the Quiz confirmation modal has it's close button cut off

Atto HTML editor lacks border outside Moodle forms (e.g. Essay questions)

Layout of multiple choice questions not well aligned

Moodle upgrade resets scheduled tasks lastruntime

PDF dataformat export: content can overflow when page headers are involved

Date in message system (always in Gregorian)

Payment modal breaks if there is html in a gateway description

Drag and Drop onto images: Drop zones have UI issue in Editing form

Locking grade category exposes hidden item grades on user report

Modal forms stay on the screen if you have multiple modals on one page

Privacy export tree navigation non-functional since MDL-69559

Task logs page doesn't respect result filter when moving through the pagination

Course with H5P element in content bank can not be deleted by Manager/Teacher role (with appropriate rights)



Accessibility improvements

Edit Quiz, click on help icon under review options group will check / uncheck the checkbox

HTML validation and accessibility problems on database export page

Focus order in tabs

Question preview: Technical info section expands if you click the help icon there



Security improvements

Set up a security.txt file in Moodle LMS



Security fixes

Details of any security issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.10.1_release_notes






3.10
 (Hauptversion)
9 November 2020 - 330MBSecurity

Add admin options for how to handle detected viruses

Add a Referrer-Policy header setting to the security admin settings



Download Course Content

Add ZipStream library to core

Create course content export API

Course content download - add site admin and course level settings, implement in course user interface



Payment Subsystem

Add payment as subsystem supporting payment gateways



H5P Updates & Improvements

Add the option to personalize H5P styles

Add library file caching to h5p

Method of saving embedded H5P content grades in the gradebook

Add Example and Tutorial links to the H5P editor

Clean up temporary H5P editor files



Content Bank

Download content from the content bank

Replace content file from content bank

Add a notification when the content bank is empty

Add the author to the content bank "file details" view



Quiz & Questions

New quiz completion option: At least one (or N) attempt completed

Scrolling quiz timer

Qtype_essay: Adding file-size limit to the attachment files



Accessibility Improvements

WCAG 4.1.2: aria-hidden elements contain focusable elements

Add Behat step to verify WCAG A and WCAG AA compliance



External Tool (IMS-LTI)

LTI Advantage: Content Item flow to support creating multiple links

Implement LTI 1.3 Dynamic Registration

LTI: support substitution parameter for course history



Usability Improvements

For folder resource, allow files to be opened in the browser rather than being downloaded

Let users define their preferred backpack

Cleanup custom 404 page and more easily support custom 50x error pages

Assignment grading page: "Changes saved" should not be modal dialog

Add ability to copy to Equella repository

Improvement of modal UI when modal exceeds the height of the browser

Lesson: Allow maximum number of attempts to be unlimited

Grade report single view - confirm message if Override None is selected

Use a consistent search input field across all Moodle searches

Use autocomplete widget for course category selector

Boost: Make images in topic descriptions scale with the browser window

Option to not include legacy course files in backup and restore process

Social activity course format should allow for using the activity chooser

Show original role name of renamed roles when enrolling users



Functional Changes

Keep OAuth 2 connections alive across users' sessions

Timeline block shows incorrect date of due items

tool_uploadcourse should check if enrolment method can be disabled/deleted

User tours: Add tour-level CSS selector

Option to allow HTML in the page headings (skip applying format_string)

Set language in user profile during account auto-creation based on browser language instead of admin setting

Control the display of available spaces in limited choices



For Administrators

Tasks: Show information about running tasks, allow tasks to be disabled

New capability to self enrol in course

User upload via CLI

Add CLI script to restore a course from backup file

Add import to tool_customlang

Add export to tool_customlang

Add option to show only contributed plugins in uninstall script

Add ability to add dkim signatures using phpmailer

Have a way to append fixed arbitrary headers to all emails

Expose divertallemailsto and divertallemailsexcept in the admin settings GUI

Add support for terabytes and petabytes in the display_size function



Mobile

Add a new message provider for course completed

Add option for "sign-out" only for the Moodle app

Config setting for mobile file type exclusion list

Update mobile app connected message so it is not misleading when the user has not used the app for a time

WebService: Users should be able to contact the site's support via the Moodle App



Performance

Performance improvement on Moodle Event table

external_tokens table will benefit from index on token field

Improve cacheability of assignfeedback_editpdf/stamps

Improve efficiency of blocks_for_region()

tool_replace: additional skip tables

Search: Allow query on one Solr server and indexing on another

Search: Stop Solr 'optimize' behaviour

Search: Allow Solr to add documents in batches



For Developers

AWS Aurora MySQL support for Moodle

Allow alternate MUC cache config class (eg allow setup in pure $CFG / config.php)

PHP Warning when purging all caches: race condition?

New optional SQL debug mode which instruments SQL with the calling PHP code

Improve theme designer mode - part 2

Upgrade phpunit to 8.5.x

Update before_footer hook to allow for output to be added to the page

Rename terms to use inclusive language

Upgrade XMPPHP to latest version

Allow plugins to attach data to grade items during backup and restore

Add a way to decide what plugin will show in the activity chooser footer



Web Services

Create API for grade category (gradebook)

Dataformat - Store to filearea support

Add user idnumber and gradeitem idnumber to gradereport_user_get_grade_items webservice

New Web Service mod_glossary_update_entry

New Web Service core_files_delete_draft_files

Allow specifying a timezone when calling WebServices

New Web Service mod_glossary_delete_entry

Create new Web Service for retrieving the user calendar via iCal

Add courseId and forumId info to mod_forum_get_discussion_posts web service



Deprecations

Deprecate supports_recursion() & extend_lock() in the Lock API

Remove Bootstrap 2 and Bootstrap 4 alpha compatibility files

Final removal of lib/coursecatlib.php

Final deprecation of web services in message/externallib.php

Remove the lib/form/htmleditor.php element

Final deprecation of the events message_contact_blocked and message_contact_unblocked

Final deprecation: I navigate to "ITEM" node in "MAINNODE > PATH" behat step

Final deprecation of add_to_log()

Final deprecation of the gradingform_provider interface

Lesen Sie mehr: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.10_release_notes