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=== For teachers === | === For teachers === |
Revision as of 14:11, 19 October 2014
As usual Moodle HQ and our incredible community have brought together work from all corners of the globe to this release. Scalable, responsive and private, Moodle 2.7 is our best release yet. Here are some highlights of this release, and you can view screencasts of some of these highlights on the official MoodleHQ YouTube page: Moodle 2.7 Release Highlights Playlist.
Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the Moodle 2.7 Release notes.
For all users
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Atto autosave
The Atto HTML editor will automatically save your text as you type, keeping your content secure before you publish it. Learn more
For teachers
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Create better customised learning paths with enhanced Conditional Activities
Enhancements to this widely used teaching feature in Moodle include an improved, streamlined interface, as well as added support to enable restricted access with "or" conditions and use nested restrictions for complex access criteria. Learn more
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Improved Assignment features
- Control when to notify students of feedback via a checkbox when grading individual students.
- Teachers can now be assigned permissions to edit or delete student submissions.
- Set a word limit, and comment and edit directly on students' online text assignments.
- Easily keep track of student submissions via filters in the Assignment grading table.
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Easily create and manage Quiz & Question bank
As well as an updated question type selector, duplicating and moving questions is now easier, and there is an option to 'Save changes and continue editing'. Quiz reports have been improved and the Essay question now allows students simply to add an attachment with no accompanying text. Learn more
For administrators and managers
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Improved logging for better reporting
A new logging subsystem with plugins allowing detailed and external logs provides opportunities for improved reporting as well as advancements in better learning analytics. Learn more
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More theme: Easily style and brand your Moodle site
'More' is a new responsive theme designed for admins to easily make basic customisations to the look and feel of their Moodle site directly, without the need for advanced technical knowledge. Learn more
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Scheduled tasks management
With an improved scheduling system, tasks can be scheduled precisely, even on complex clustered servers. See Scheduled tasks for details.
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Improved Events system
Events have been improved all through Moodle, allowing you to better integrate your code with Moodle. A new dynamically-generated report listing all events and event details helps administrators, researchers and developers understand the system. Learn more
See also
es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.6 de:Neue Funktionalitäten
- Category:New features - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.7