Moodle 5.3 LTS is out. Instead of reading the release notes and hoping your site survives the upgrade, get a private Moodle 5.3 you can actually break: your own administrator account, real plugins, real files, the interface exactly as your users will meet it.
Free, disposable, nothing to install. It lives for 45 minutes and then disappears, with everything inside it.
Free · about a minute to set up · no credit card
You are the administrator of the box. Install plugins from the directory or upload your own ZIP, switch themes, import questions, change every setting. If your platform breaks, that is useful information, not a problem: it is disposable.
No virtual machine to build, no server to configure, no local install. You leave your details, confirm your email, and the platform is already running with a database, a theme and an admin user waiting for you.
Every platform is a sealed container that self-destructs at the deadline. No leftovers, no shared state, no obligation. Test boldly, because there is nothing to clean up afterwards.
Every Moodle upgrade hides small things that only show up under load: a plugin that has not caught up, a theme built on a component that changed, a question type that renders differently. Finding them on a production site, at 8am, is the expensive way. Finding them in a sandbox is free.
With your own demo platform you reproduce your setup, apply the upgrade and watch what breaks. Nothing you do there can touch the real thing, because the demo is a sealed box by construction.
Building a plugin, a theme or a course format for 5.3? You need a clean 5.3 to test against, not the three-years-old site your client keeps running. Drop your code in, follow the upgrade path from 4.x, and check that your overrides still render the way you expect before you ship them to a real server.
The demo runs the unmodified release on a plain stack, so what you see is what your clients will get.
Straight from the plugin directory or your own ZIP. See how they behave on 5.3, and whether they still need patching.
Bring in a real backup, restore it and check that your content structure survives the move to the new version.
Test the modernised Question Bank, imports and the new assessment workflows against your own question sets.
With the Classic theme gone from core, this is the moment to see how yours renders and what needs updating.
Attach documents, images and media and confirm your file handling, limits and storage settings behave as expected.
Create courses and users, then walk the new linear navigation the way your learners will meet it in production.
Your name, work email and organisation. It takes twenty seconds, and it lets us open a platform for a real person rather than a bot.
You get a confirmation link, then the platform address and your admin credentials by email. Click and you are inside a live Moodle 5.3.
Fifteen minutes on the timer, one click to add fifteen more, up to forty-five. Then the platform is destroyed, exactly as promised.
Yes. The platform is free, there is no credit card and no trial that quietly turns into a subscription. You give us a few details so we know who we are opening a platform for, we give you a working Moodle 5.3 for 45 minutes. That is the whole deal.
Because this is a test drive, not a hosting service. Forty-five minutes is enough to install a plugin, import a course, click through the new 5.3 interface and see whether your theme or custom code still behaves. When the time is up the platform is destroyed, root password, database and all.
Yes, and that is the point. You get a real administrator account, so you can install anything from the Moodle plugin directory or upload your own ZIP, switch themes, change settings and import content. Your platform is an isolated container: whatever you do stays inside it.
Every platform is disposable and sealed: nothing you upload survives the deadline, and nothing is shared between visitors. That also means you should not put real personal data in a demo. Use it to test structure, plugins and settings, not to host production content.
About a minute. You confirm your email, click the link and the platform is created for you with its own administrator credentials. The credentials arrive by email together with the address, so you can log straight in.
The current Moodle 5.3 LTS, running on PostgreSQL, with no third-party code except the plugins you install yourself. It is the cleanest possible baseline for testing compatibility before you touch your production site.
One active platform per email address, to keep the pool fair for everyone. Once yours has expired you are welcome to request another.
That is what we do for a living. Tuchsoft builds, upgrades and maintains Moodle platforms for schools, universities and companies. If the demo convinced you, talk to us about a platform that never expires.
Curious about what is actually new in this release? Read the Moodle 5.3 upgrade guide or browse our articles. For a platform that never expires, talk to us.
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