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Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. You can watch screencasts on some of these highlights on the official MoodleHQ YouTube page: [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDe8RRnGjoUDqbcm9PSlIoWn Moodle 2.6 Release Highlights Playlist].


Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.6_release_notes Moodle 2.6 Release notes].


Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights a few of the most interesting.
=== For teachers ===
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  <div class="row-fluid">
    <div class="span4">
      <div style="margin: 10px; display: block">
[[File:forteachers.png|link=|300px]]
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    </div>
    <div class="span8">
      <div style="color: #555;">
        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Improved grading features</div>
        <ul>
          <li>Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within browser.</li>
          <li>Conveniently allocate student assignments to different markers, and control when marks are released to individual students.</li>
          <li>Certainty-based marking in Quizzes now provides improved feedback for learners.</li>
        </ul>


Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.6_release_notes Moodle 2.6 Release notes.]
        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Dynamic and streamlined course management</div>
        <ul>
          <li>Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.</li>
          <li>Easily add a Single activity course format.</li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
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  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:AnnotatePDF.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>1. Annotate uploaded PDF files in browser</h4>
            <p>Provide feedback directly within PDF file submissions by using a variety of annotating tools available, including stamps and phrases from a comment bank. (Requires ghostscript on server.) </p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:MarkingWorkflow.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>2. Enhanced marking workflow and allocation</h4>
            <p>Control when marks are released for viewing, for example, when they have been reviewed and moderated. Individual markers can also be allocated assignments and these allocations will show up clearly in the gradebook.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


==For all users==
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:Certaintybased-Marking.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>3. Enhanced feedback in Certainty-based marking</h4>
            <p>Quizzes using Certainty-based marking now provide better feedback for learners.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:Edit-menu.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>4. Easily edit course activities and resources</h4>
            <p>Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


===Collapsible TinyMCE editor===
  <div class="row-fluid">
The TinyMCE editor has new icons and can be toggled between one and three lines to save space.
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:Add-single-activity.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>5. Add a Single activity course format</h4>
            <p>Simply select and add any one activity as a standard course format which is displayed directed on the course page (This feature supersedes the old SCORM course format).</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


{|
=== For administrators and managers ===
|[[File:26tinymce1.png|250px|thumb|Collapsed view]]
  <div class="row-fluid">
|[[File:26tinymce2.png|250px|thumb|Expanded view]]
      <div class="span4">
|}
        <div style="margin: 10px; display: block">
[[File:foradmin.png|link=|300px]]
        </div>
      </div>
        <div class="span8">
          <div style="color: #555;">
            <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Enhanced platform management</div>
            <ul>
              <li>Create and manage bulk courses efficiently</li>
              <li>Simpler course and category management</li>
              <li>Create additional name fields </li>
              <li>Conveniently import and export role definition using XML file</li>
              <li>Restoring of very large courses possible</li>
            </ul>


===Access files from Microsoft Skydrive===
          </div>
Users may now retrieve files from their Skydrive account to use in Moodle courses.
        </div>
  </div>
<br>
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:create-bulk-course.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>1. Bulk course creation tool</h4>
            <p>Create multiple courses efficiently using a single CSV file.  The functionality also extends to updating or deleting courses as well as importing content from another course.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:streamlined-category-mgmt.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>2. Streamlined course and category management</h4>
            <p>Easily sort, create, and delete course categories in a more intuitive interface with drag and drop functionality.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


{|
  <div class="row-fluid">
|[[File:MicrosoftSkydrive.png|250px|thumb|MS Skydrive]]
    <ul class="thumbnails">
|}
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:additional-name-fields.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>3. Create additional name fields</h4>
            <p>Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:role-def.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>4. Import and export role definitions</h4>
            <p>Export and import role definitions as XML files.New roles may be based on existing data:</p>
            <ul>
              <li>role archetype</li>
              <li>existing role</li>
              <li>role definition XML file</li>
            </ul>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


==For teachers==
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:large-course-backup-restore.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>5. Backup and restore large courses</h4>
            <p>Backup and restore large courses Improved performance allows users to quickly backup large courses safely and if needed, easily restore the courses for use.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


===Improved edit icons for usability across all screens===
=== For all users ===
To make it easier to edit on mobile devices and tablets, a number of edit icons have been grouped together:
  <div class="row-fluid">
      <div class="span4">
        <div style="margin: 10px; display: block">
[[File:forusers.png|link=|300px]]
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="span8">
        <div style="color: #555;">
          <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Experience a better learning platform</div>
          <ul>
            <li>A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor </li>
            <li>Easily access files from Microsoft Skydrive.</li>
            <li>Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</li>
            <li>Simplified username and password recovery</li>
            <li>Improved file management in TinyMCE editor</li>
            <li>Better responsive design across devices</li>
          </ul>
        </div>
      </div>
  </div>
<br>
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:improved-tinymce.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>1. A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor</h4>
            <p>The improved TinyMCE editor can be resized to suit various browser widths, and features user-friendly icons and a collapsible toolbar menu.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:moodle-skydrive.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive</h4>
            <p>Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


{|
  <div class="row-fluid">
|[[File:26editicons.png|250|thumb|Click the 'Actions' icon to reveal more editing options]]
    <ul class="thumbnails">
|}
      <li class="span6">
 
        <div class="thumbnail">
 
[[File:multiple-calendar-support.png|600px]]
===Single activity course format===
          <div class="caption">
This new format allows teachers to choose just one activity which is displayed as soon as the students click on the course. It replaces the SCORM course format.
            <h4>3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</h4>
{|
            <p>Moodle 2.6 supports and displays the same date in multiple calendar system, including Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic and more, so you can select a preferred calendar system.</p>
|[[File:26singleactivity.png|250px|thumb|Setting up the Single activity format]]
          </div>
|}
        </div>
 
      </li>
===Marking workflow and allocation===
      <li class="span6">
Teachers can now control visiblity of grades for students until for example they have been reviewed and moderated. Teachers can be allocated to mark individual student assignments and these allocations show up clearly in the gradebook.
        <div class="thumbnail">
{|
[[File:password-recovery.png|600px]]
|[[File:26markingworkflow.png|250px|thumb|Setting marking workflow state when grading]]
          <div class="caption">
|[[File:26markingworkflowallocatedmarkers.png|250px|thumb|Grading screen showing different markers at different stages of the workflow]]
            <h4>4. Simplified username and password recovery</h4>
|}
            <p>Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
 
          </div>
===Annotate uploaded pdfs in the browser===
        </div>
When students upload assignments as pdfs, the teacher can feedback directly on the file, using stamps, phrases from a comment bank and a variety of annotating tools.
      </li>
===More detailed feedback for Certainty-based marking in Quizzes===
    </ul>
Quizzes using Certainty based marking now provide much improved feedback for the students:
  </div>
 
  <div class="row-fluid">
{|
    <ul class="thumbnails">
|[[File:26CBM.png|250px|thumb|Improved CBM feedback]]
      <li class="span6">
|}
        <div class="thumbnail">
 
[[File:manage-embedded-files.png|600px]]
==For  managers and administrators==
          <div class="caption">
===Bulk create courses===
            <h4>5. Improve file management in TinyMCE editor </h4>
It is now possible to bulk create(and delete) courses using a csv file and to set a course template.
            <p>Add and manage files previously embedded in a text area with the new TinyMCE Manage Embedded files plugin and Embedded files repository.</p>
 
          </div>
{|
        </div>
|[[File:26uploadcourses.png|250px|thumb|Upload courses admin screen]]
      </li>
|
      <li class="span6">
|[[File:uploadcoursesresults.png|250px|thumb|Courses successfully uploaded]]
        <div class="thumbnail">
|}
[[File:better-responsive-design.png|600px]]
 
          <div class="caption">
===Better management of categories and courses===
            <h4>6. Better responsive design </h4>
The category management pages have been improved to make them more streamlined and easier to organise.
            <p> Moodle works and looks better across all devices, including desktops, tablets and phones.</p>
 
          </div>
{|
        </div>
|[[File:coursecategorymanagement.png|250px|thumb|Managing categories (2 examples)]]
      </li>
|
    </ul>
|[[File:coursemanagement.png|250px|thumb|Selecting and managing one course]]
  </div>
|}
 
===Additional name fields===
Site administrators can display the names of users with non-Romanised scripts both in their own script and phonetically or using Romanised script:
{|
|[[File:26names.png|250pz|thumb|Example of additional name fields]]
|}


</div>
</div>


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 17:47, 28 May 2014

Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. You can watch screencasts on some of these highlights on the official MoodleHQ YouTube page: Moodle 2.6 Release Highlights Playlist.

Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the Moodle 2.6 Release notes.

For teachers

forteachers.png

Improved grading features
  • Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within browser.
  • Conveniently allocate student assignments to different markers, and control when marks are released to individual students.
  • Certainty-based marking in Quizzes now provides improved feedback for learners.
Dynamic and streamlined course management
  • Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.
  • Easily add a Single activity course format.


  • AnnotatePDF.png

    1. Annotate uploaded PDF files in browser

    Provide feedback directly within PDF file submissions by using a variety of annotating tools available, including stamps and phrases from a comment bank. (Requires ghostscript on server.)

  • MarkingWorkflow.png

    2. Enhanced marking workflow and allocation

    Control when marks are released for viewing, for example, when they have been reviewed and moderated. Individual markers can also be allocated assignments and these allocations will show up clearly in the gradebook.

  • Certaintybased-Marking.png

    3. Enhanced feedback in Certainty-based marking

    Quizzes using Certainty-based marking now provide better feedback for learners.

  • Edit-menu.png

    4. Easily edit course activities and resources

    Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.

  • Add-single-activity.png

    5. Add a Single activity course format

    Simply select and add any one activity as a standard course format which is displayed directed on the course page (This feature supersedes the old SCORM course format).

For administrators and managers

foradmin.png

Enhanced platform management
  • Create and manage bulk courses efficiently
  • Simpler course and category management
  • Create additional name fields
  • Conveniently import and export role definition using XML file
  • Restoring of very large courses possible


  • create-bulk-course.png

    1. Bulk course creation tool

    Create multiple courses efficiently using a single CSV file. The functionality also extends to updating or deleting courses as well as importing content from another course.

  • streamlined-category-mgmt.png

    2. Streamlined course and category management

    Easily sort, create, and delete course categories in a more intuitive interface with drag and drop functionality.

  • additional-name-fields.png

    3. Create additional name fields

    Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.

  • role-def.png

    4. Import and export role definitions

    Export and import role definitions as XML files.New roles may be based on existing data:

    • role archetype
    • existing role
    • role definition XML file

  • large-course-backup-restore.png

    5. Backup and restore large courses

    Backup and restore large courses Improved performance allows users to quickly backup large courses safely and if needed, easily restore the courses for use.

For all users

forusers.png

Experience a better learning platform
  • A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor
  • Easily access files from Microsoft Skydrive.
  • Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support
  • Simplified username and password recovery
  • Improved file management in TinyMCE editor
  • Better responsive design across devices


  • improved-tinymce.png

    1. A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor

    The improved TinyMCE editor can be resized to suit various browser widths, and features user-friendly icons and a collapsible toolbar menu.

  • moodle-skydrive.png

    2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive

    Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.

  • multiple-calendar-support.png

    3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support

    Moodle 2.6 supports and displays the same date in multiple calendar system, including Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic and more, so you can select a preferred calendar system.

  • password-recovery.png

    4. Simplified username and password recovery

    Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.

  • manage-embedded-files.png

    5. Improve file management in TinyMCE editor

    Add and manage files previously embedded in a text area with the new TinyMCE Manage Embedded files plugin and Embedded files repository.

  • better-responsive-design.png

    6. Better responsive design

    Moodle works and looks better across all devices, including desktops, tablets and phones.

See also

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