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If you are a student on Moodle, here's a quick overview of the changes you can expect to see when your Moodle site is using Moodle 3.1:

Assessing and grading

Learning plans:

If your organisation uses learning plans with Competency based education, you can view your learning plans from your profile or a Learning plans block on your dashboard.
You can also upload evidence of prior learning

Learning plans and Evidence

Check progress and request reviews:

Click a learning plan to view the competencies, check their status, request a review or find other courses with those competencies.

Checking progress

Receive annotated assignment submissions:

If enabled by the administrator, you can upload docx or odt files as assignment submissions and they will be converted to pdf files with the teacher's annotations ready for you to download and view.

Assignment feedback annotated

Usability

Bulk download files

If your teacher has added folders to your course, you can now download all the files inside them as a zipped folder for easy offline access.

Downloading all files in a folder

Search the site:

If your admin has enabled it, a search box to the left of your user menu will allow you to search for specific resources and activities everywhere you have access to (1).
You can also add a Global search block to your Dashboard to search from there as well (2).

Ways to search the site

Find tagged activities:

Activities and resources can now be tagged by the teacher, making it easy for you to find related useful content:

Tagged activities search results

Communication

Send messages more efficiently:

You can now find the Message button directly next to the user's picture, making it much easier to get in touch.

Sending a message

Link directly to forum posts

A new permalink feature allows you easily to copy and share direct links to important forum posts.

Permalinks

Quizzes

Improved quiz navigation styling enables you to easily see questions you got correct, essay questions awaiting marking and more.

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 {{About Moodle}}
-If you are a student on Moodle, here's a quick overview of the changes you can expect to see when your Moodle site is using Moodle 3.0:
+If you are a student on Moodle, here's a quick overview of the changes you can expect to see when your Moodle site is using Moodle 3.1:
-==Text editing improvements==
+==Assessing and grading==
-*If you use the [[Text editor|Atto editor]] when entering text, you will have more options to format tables (if enabled by your admin.)
-[[File:AttoTable1.png|thumb|center|600px|Better table editing]]
+'''Learning plans:'''
+*If your organisation uses learning plans with Competency based education, you can view your learning plans from your profile or a Learning plans block on your dashboard.
+*You can also upload evidence of prior learning
-*If you use the equation editor, you will notice new square root, fractions and vector buttons in the 'Advanced' tab.
+[[File:NFLPlist.png|thumb|600px|center|Learning plans and Evidence]]
-[[File:AttoEquations.png|thumb|center|600px|More equation buttons.]]
+'''Check progress and request reviews:'''
-==Delete your messages==
+Click a learning plan to view the competencies, check their status, request a review or find other courses with those competencies.
-If you have a lot of messages in your message history, you can delete these by going to the ''User menu > Messages'', hovering your cursor over a message and clicking the X. Note that you are only deleting messages you sent and received; they won't be deleted from the lists of others involved in the exchange. See the screencast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o90NRGuz7I Messages in Moodle 3.0] for a demonstration.
-[[File:TempDeleteMessage.png|thumb|center|600px|Delete messages]]
+[[File:NFStudentLP.png|thumb|600px|center|Checking progress]]
-==Mobile app improvements==
+'''Receive annotated assignment submissions:'''
-You'll be able to do  more of your course from your smartphone with releases 2.4 and 2.4 of the mobile app. See [[New in mobile]] for more information. You can expect to:
-*search for and enrol in courses (2.5)
+''If enabled by the administrator'', you can upload docx or odt files as assignment submissions and they will be converted to pdf files with the teacher's annotations ready for you to download and view.
-* do choices in the app (2.4)
-* take surveys in the app (2.4)
+[[File:NFConvertedFiles.png|thumb|600px|center|Assignment feedback annotated]]
-*engage in chats, on the move, in the app (2.4)
+==Usability==
+'''Bulk download files'''
+If your teacher has added folders to your course,  you can now download all the files inside them as a zipped folder for easy offline access.
+[[File:NFDownloadFolder.png|600px|center|thumb|Downloading all files in a folder]]
+'''Search the site:'''
+*If your admin has enabled it, a search box to the left of your user menu will allow you to search for specific resources and activities everywhere you have access to (1).
+*You can also add a [[Global search block]] to your Dashboard to search from there as well (2).
+[[File:NFStudentGS.png|thumb|600px|center|Ways to search the site]]
+'''Find tagged activities:'''
+Activities and resources can now be tagged by the teacher, making it easy for you to find related useful content:
+[[File:NFTaggedActivities.png|thumb|600px|center|Tagged activities search results]]
+==Communication==
+'''Send messages more efficiently:'''
+*You can now find the Message button directly next to the user's picture, making it much easier to get in touch.
+[[File:NFMessagebuttonExample.png|thumb|600px|center|Sending a message]]
+'''Link directly to forum posts'''
+A new permalink feature allows you easily to copy and share direct links to important forum posts.
+[[File:NFPermalink.png|thumb|600px|center|Permalinks]]
+==Quizzes==
+Improved [[Using Quiz|quiz navigation styling]] enables you to easily see questions you got correct, essay questions awaiting marking and more.
+[[File:quiz navigation review.png]]
 [[Category:New features]]
-[[es:Nuevo para estudiantes]]
+[[es:31/Nuevo para estudiantes]]
+[[de:Neu für Teilnehmer/innen]]

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