Test 1: Create an empty site Make sure admin can see 'Add course' button on front page (this is fixed in MDL-38592 ) Set up course requests: Site Administration -> Courses -> Course requests, add permission 'moodle/course:request' to some user who can not create courses. Create several courses in Miscellaneous category, ensure all simple actions are where they were before: When manager browses category he can see 'Add course' button, proper user can see 'Request course' button, in top category admin can see 'Courses pending approval' button. Set language to a RTL language (hebrew) - repeat the previous steps in this test and look for RTL issues. Test 2 big site: You need a site with many courses and categories You may want to reduce the $CFG->coursesperpage so pagination is displayed more often Browse all pages listed here and make sure there are no errors: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Courses_lists_upgrade_to_2.5#Pages_that_are_affected_by_the_new_renderer_functions Test 3 MNET: Enable MNet, configure two hosts to see each other make sure you have a student enrolled in some courses on both servers, synchronise enrollments apply patch suggested in comments in MDL-37027 , otherwise list of remote hosts will not be shown at all as a student login to server1 make sure student can see on the front page the list of his own courses and remote courses form server 2 make sure when student jumps to server2 he can see the server1 on the front page (as a remote host) Don't forget to remove the patch from MDL-37027