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Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights a few of the most interesting.
Moodle 2.9 brings together features and enhancements developed by our core team and community contributors. These include: streamlined navigation, useful improvements to activities such as Lesson and Quiz, along with  new admin settings which  refine the course management process.


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.]
Read on for Moodle 2.9 highlights, or watch the screencasts on the official [https://youtu.be/JsUz1DMg-24?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDclJEctfdxCFeo8QuyR1Hw_ Moodle HQ YouTube page].


Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 2.9 release notes|Moodle 2.9 release notes]].


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        <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>
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          <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>
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          <li>Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.</li>
          <li>Easily add a Single activity course format.</li>
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             <h4>1. Annotate uploaded PDF files in browser</h4>
             <h4>My home is now Dashboard</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.</p>
             <p>My home has been renamed to Dashboard, while retaining its full functionality as before. Where courses have assignments, these are only now displayed in the [[Course overview block]] when they need attention from the teacher (grading) or the student (submitting/resubmitting). [[Dashboard|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>2. Enhanced marking workflow and allocation</h4>
             <h4>New Grades page</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>
             <p>The user menu now includes a new Grades page which display grades from all courses users are students in, with links to the relevant user reports. Courses users are teaching in are also displayed, with links to the relevant course gradebook. [[Overview report|Read more...]] </p>
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             <h4>3. Enhanced feedback in Certainty-based marking</h4>
             <h4>New Profile page</h4>
             <p>Quizzes using Certainty-based marking now provide better feedback for learners.</p>
             <p>Accessed from the user menu, the new Profile page provides quick links to blog entries, forum post, badges and, depending on the user’s privileges,  a variety of reports including a new [[Browser sessions|browser sessions page.]] The page includes links formerly in the Navigation block. [[User profiles|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>4. Easily edit course activities and resources</h4>
             <h4>Browser sessions page</h4>
             <p>Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.</p>
             <p>A new page displays your current browser sessions allowing you to check if you forgot to log off on a different computer (and log off now)  and reassure yourself nobody is using your account.  [[Browser sessions| Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>5. Add a Single activity course format</h4>
             <h4>New Preferences page</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>
             <p>AlI your preferences can easily be reviewed and altered from one page, accessed from the user menu. Easily change your choice of editor, update your forum notifications, change your password and more. This page includes settings formerly in the Administration block. [[Preferences|Read more...]] </p>
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            <h4>Improved messaging</h4>
            <p>A messages button on profile pages enables you to send messages via pop-up box without leaving the page you are on. [[Messaging|Read more...]]</p>
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=== For administrators and managers ===
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              <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>
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             <h4>1. Bulk course creation tool</h4>
             <h4>Drag and drop into Atto</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>
             <p>It's now possible to drag and drop images directly into the Atto editor, for example when editing a course summary or when posting in a forum. [[Text editor|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>2. Streamlined course and category management</h4>
             <h4>Search Server files</h4>
             <p>Easily sort, create, and delete course categories in a more intuitive interface with drag and drop functionality.</p>
             <p>Users with permissions to access Server files can now use a search facility, allowing for easy location of files in other courses they have access to. [[Server files|Read more...]]</p>
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=== Activity enhancements ===


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             <h4>3. Create Additional name fields</h4>
             <h4>Lesson</h4>
             <p>Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.</p>
             <p> Along with enhancements such as group support, user and group overrides better logging and improved essay grading interface, the [[Lesson|lesson]] activity now boasts a new completion condition “Require time spent”. [[Lesson settings|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>4. Import and export role redefinitions</h4>
             <h4> Quiz</h4>
             <p>Export and import role definitions as XML files.New roles may be based on existing data:</p>
             <p> [[Quiz|Quizzes]] can now have section headings and questions can be shuffled on different pages. It is now possible to require that a particular question be answered before a subsequent one may be accessed, and quizzes along with responses and feedback will now display attractively when printed from the browser. [[Building Quiz|Read more...]]</p>
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              <li>role archetype</li>
              <li>existing role</li>
              <li>role definition XML file</li>
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             <h4>5. Backup and restore large courses</h4>
             <h4>Easily post to all groups in a forum</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>
            <p> If your [[Forum|forum]] has groups, you only need to post once and your post is copied for each group.</p>
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            <h4> Extra options for Database and Glossary</h4>
             <p> Along with displaying user pictures in the [[Database activity module|database]], you can set certain fields as 'required'. When importing [[Glossary|glossary]] entries, embedded images and attached files will also be included.</p>
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=== For all users ===
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            <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>
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             <h4>1. A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor</h4>
             <h4>Activity results</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>
             <p> As well as displaying quiz results in competitive league table style, a new Activity results block can show scores from any graded or rated activity in your course. [[Activity results block|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive</h4>
             <h4> Grade to pass</h4>
             <p>Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.</p>
             <p> If you are using graded activities it is now possible to set a passing grade during the activity set up process instead of having to edit the gradebook directly.</p>
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             <h4>3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</h4>
             <h4>Delete course sections</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>
             <p>A new option in each course section allows you to completely remove the section and its content, regardless of where the section is located on your course page. [[Course homepage|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>4. Simplified username and password recovery</h4>
             <h4> Faster addition of cohorts and meta linked courses</h4>
             <p>Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
             <p> You can enrol many cohorts or multiple courses with the [[Cohort sync|cohort sync]] and [[Course meta link|course meta link]] methods much faster now with a new "Add method and create another" button. Users from linked courses can also be synced into a group; a much voted-for feature.</p>
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            <h4>Keyholder</h4>
            <p> A new capability [[Capabilities/enrol/self:holdkey|enrol/self:holdkey]] will make it easy for certain members of your organisation - not necessarily teachers- to be the keyholder to self-enrolled courses. [[Keyholder|Read more...]] </p>
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            <h4>New template library for renderers</h4>
            <p>A new element library will make it easier to create and style the user interface, give Moodle a more consistent look and feel and improve site performance. [[dev:Render_library_specification|Read more...]] </p>
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             <h4>5. Improve file management in TinyMCE editor </h4>
             <h4>Add custom file types</h4>
             <p>Add and manage previously embedded images or files to a page or a label in the TinyMCE text editor with the new Embedded files repository and TinyMCE Manage Embedded files plugin.</p>
             <p>A new admin tool lists all existing file types and allows you to add new ones specific to programs your organisation might be using. This will make the display of such file types clearer and downloading them less confusing. [[Working with files|Read more...]]</p>
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==See also==


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* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.9
 


==See also==
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.9]]
 
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.6]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
 
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 2.9]]
* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.6

Latest revision as of 14:23, 23 May 2016

Moodle 2.9 brings together features and enhancements developed by our core team and community contributors. These include: streamlined navigation, useful improvements to activities such as Lesson and Quiz, along with new admin settings which refine the course management process.

Read on for Moodle 2.9 highlights, or watch the screencasts on the official Moodle HQ YouTube page.

Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the Moodle 2.9 release notes.

For all users

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    My home is now Dashboard

    My home has been renamed to Dashboard, while retaining its full functionality as before. Where courses have assignments, these are only now displayed in the Course overview block when they need attention from the teacher (grading) or the student (submitting/resubmitting). Read more...

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    New Grades page

    The user menu now includes a new Grades page which display grades from all courses users are students in, with links to the relevant user reports. Courses users are teaching in are also displayed, with links to the relevant course gradebook. Read more...


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    New Profile page

    Accessed from the user menu, the new Profile page provides quick links to blog entries, forum post, badges and, depending on the user’s privileges, a variety of reports including a new browser sessions page. The page includes links formerly in the Navigation block. Read more...

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    Browser sessions page

    A new page displays your current browser sessions allowing you to check if you forgot to log off on a different computer (and log off now) and reassure yourself nobody is using your account. Read more...

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    New Preferences page

    AlI your preferences can easily be reviewed and altered from one page, accessed from the user menu. Easily change your choice of editor, update your forum notifications, change your password and more. This page includes settings formerly in the Administration block. Read more...

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    Improved messaging

    A messages button on profile pages enables you to send messages via pop-up box without leaving the page you are on. Read more...

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    Drag and drop into Atto

    It's now possible to drag and drop images directly into the Atto editor, for example when editing a course summary or when posting in a forum. Read more...

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    Search Server files

    Users with permissions to access Server files can now use a search facility, allowing for easy location of files in other courses they have access to. Read more...

Activity enhancements

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    Lesson

    Along with enhancements such as group support, user and group overrides better logging and improved essay grading interface, the lesson activity now boasts a new completion condition “Require time spent”. Read more...

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    Quiz

    Quizzes can now have section headings and questions can be shuffled on different pages. It is now possible to require that a particular question be answered before a subsequent one may be accessed, and quizzes along with responses and feedback will now display attractively when printed from the browser. Read more...

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    Easily post to all groups in a forum

    If your forum has groups, you only need to post once and your post is copied for each group.

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    Extra options for Database and Glossary

    Along with displaying user pictures in the database, you can set certain fields as 'required'. When importing glossary entries, embedded images and attached files will also be included.

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    Activity results

    As well as displaying quiz results in competitive league table style, a new Activity results block can show scores from any graded or rated activity in your course. Read more...

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    Grade to pass

    If you are using graded activities it is now possible to set a passing grade during the activity set up process instead of having to edit the gradebook directly.

Course management

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    Delete course sections

    A new option in each course section allows you to completely remove the section and its content, regardless of where the section is located on your course page. Read more...

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    Faster addition of cohorts and meta linked courses

    You can enrol many cohorts or multiple courses with the cohort sync and course meta link methods much faster now with a new "Add method and create another" button. Users from linked courses can also be synced into a group; a much voted-for feature.

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    Keyholder

    A new capability enrol/self:holdkey will make it easy for certain members of your organisation - not necessarily teachers- to be the keyholder to self-enrolled courses. Read more...

New options for administrators and developers

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    New template library for renderers

    A new element library will make it easier to create and style the user interface, give Moodle a more consistent look and feel and improve site performance. Read more...

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    Add custom file types

    A new admin tool lists all existing file types and allows you to add new ones specific to programs your organisation might be using. This will make the display of such file types clearer and downloading them less confusing. Read more...

See also

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