Getting moodle version info, no admin access

Being a TA, I didn't want to mess around with backups which sounds weird but given my unique position, reasonable (to me).

On the implementation of moodle I use, with TA privilege, a link to moodle docs is present at the bottom of the page and if you open this link, it takes you to the moodle docs page with moodle_url/moodle_version/___.

Maybe this is peculiar to my system, but I believe it's a default setting thing.

The most dirty way to do so when no admin or file access, is doing differs from public files between versions. As example, index.php file can be 1024Kb lenght on v1.x and 1033Kb lenght on version 1.2.

Also, check for existance/non existance of a set of files is a common way (css, html, js, icon, etc)

I will edit this again if i find a specific solution.

First edit: For versions 19 or above, you can check version direcly from readme.txt file at https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/MOODLE_19_STABLE/README.txt

Sorry, these instructions may seem somewhat obscure, but it's the only way I could find to get the version of Moodle with only "teacher" level access.

As a teacher, you should be able to create a backup of any of your courses (though this capability may have been removed in the Moodle you're using). Backups are just zip files, but instead have a .mbz extension. If you change this extension to .zip, you'll be able to extract the zip. With the zip extracted, open "moodle_backup.xml", in there you should find the "moodle_release" item somewhere near the top, giving you the version of Moodle used to create the backup.

In order to see the current version of moodle you just need to read this file: http://yourmoodlesite/lib/upgrade.txt

Here's more information about it: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/MOODLE_29_STABLE/lib/upgrade.txt