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Revision as of 09:02, 3 May 2016

Moodle 3.1 comes packed with popular new features such as full support for Competency Based Education, smoother assignment grading, easy retrieval of deleted files (thanks to the Moodle Users Association), improved tagging and course editing, greater usability for students and enhancements to several activities such as forum, lesson and feedback.

Read on for Moodle 3.1 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.1 highlights screencasts on our YouTube page. (coming soon)

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 310 release notes.

For teachers

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    Competencies

    Competency based education is now fully supported in Moodle 3.1

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    Assignment grading

    Grading Assignment submissions has got smoother with all elements on one screen and the ability to annotate over student submissions of different file types..

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    Download selected assignments

    Select which assignments you want to download for offline viewing from a new option in the menu

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    Easily restore deleted content

    The new Recycle bin, funded by the MUA, means you no longer need worry about losing accidentally deleted course items or courses, as it's now possible easily to restore them.

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    Pinned forum discussions

    Important forum posts can now be pinned to the top of your list, making them more visible to your students. Read more: Forum.

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    Easily link to forum posts

    The new permalink feature makes it easy to share useful forum posts. See Using Forum.

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    Share activities between sites

    The External tool activity now allows you to share course activities and related grading between two Moodle sites.

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    Tag course activities

    Course activities and resources may now be tagged, making it simpler to find related content.

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    Restrict workshop file types

    When setting up a workshop, you can now specify the types of file you want students to submit or not

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    Easier section editing

    Edit section titles without leaving the page, speeding up your course creation.Read more...

For administrators

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    Competency frameworks

    Create competency frameworks for use throughout the site. (A plugin will also allow you to import from external sources.)

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    Learning plan templates

    Create learning plan templates and apply them to individuals or whole cohorts.

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    Global search

    Add solr so your staff and students can search the site

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    Assignment file conversion

    Teachers can annotate directly on uploaded submissions of different file types, not just PDF if unoconv 07 is installed Find our more...

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    Search the file system repository

    If you’ve enabled a File system repository on your server for FTP uploading, your teachers can now search the folders in that repository

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    Lesson default settings

    Make setting up a Lesson simpler for teachers by choosing the default and advanced settings.

For all users

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    Bulk download files in a zipped folder

    When a folder resource contains many files, students can download them all in a zipped file.

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    Search everywhere!

    Search all courses you have access to and quickly find that important resource.