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If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.1

Assessing and progress tracking

With Competency based education, you can link competencies to a learning plan and review students' progress towards specific achievements.

Competencies/Learning plan

Assignment grading

Grade assignments more efficiently with everything on one screen and the ability (if enabled by admin) to annotate any uploaded file type.

The new assignment grading screen

Course editing

Section titles can now be changed directly from the course page:

Edit titles inline

Course management

Easily retrieve deleted content A new Recycle bin available in the course administration block once an item has been deleted allows you to quickly restore that resource or activity.(It will also restore deleted courses for those with relevant permissions.)

Restore deleted content

Activity tagging: A new setting when adding activities and resources lets you tag them so they may be searched for by others in Site pages > Tags.

Tagging an activity

Search everywhere: If enabled by your administrator, the Global search feature lets you search courses you have access to, from a box next to the user menu or from the Global search block

Search the site

Search for and add multiple meta linked courses: If the Course meta link enrolment method is enabled for you, you can search for the course or courses you need and add them in one single step.

Search for and add meta linked courses

Activities

Forum improvements

It's now possible to make important forum posts 'sticky' , by pinning them to the top of your list:

A pinned forum post

And the new 'Permalink' feature makes it easy to share direct links to interesting individual posts:

Permalink

Workshop

You can specify which files students may, or may not, upload for their peer assessment task and when giving feedback.
A teacher can delete any workshop submission at any time, however if it has been assessed, they will be warned that the assessments will also be deleted and reviewers' grades may be affected.
Students can delete their own submission during the submission phase.

Specify file types for the workshop.

SCORM

The SCORM activity now supports group mode, so can be restricted to a particular grouping and reports may be filtered by group.
Option to include results (whether answer was right or wrong) in interactions report download

Lesson

Lesson set up can be simplified by your administrator to only display those settings you frequently use.

Simpler lesson set up.

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-If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.0
+{{About Moodle}}
+If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.1
-==Course editing==
+==Assessing and progress tracking==
-'''More equations:'''
+With Competency based education, you can link competencies to a learning plan and review students' progress towards specific achievements.
-The Advanced tab of the Atto editor now contains square root, fractions and vector buttons:
+[[File:NFTeacherCompetencyView.png|thumb|center|600px|Competencies/Learning plan]]
-[[File:AttoEquations.png|thumb|center|600px|Extra buttons]]
+==Assignment grading==
+Grade assignments more efficiently with everything on one screen and the ability (if enabled by admin) to annotate any uploaded file type.
-'''More options for table in Atto:'''
+[[File:NFAssignmentGrading2.png|thumb|center|600px|The new assignment grading screen]]
-If enabled by your administrator, you will have extra options for formatting tables, such as border styling, sizing and colours.
-'''Streamlined section editing:
-'''
-[[File:AttoTable1.png|thumb|600px|center|New table editing options]]
-Topic and weekly sections are now edited from one drop down menu which includes setting, highlighting, hiding, duplicating and deleting.
+==Course editing==
+Section titles can now be changed directly from the course page:
-[[File:TempEditsections.png|thumb|600px|center|New menu for editing course sections]]
+[[File:NFedittopicname.png|thumb|center|600px|Edit titles inline]]
 ==Course management==
-'''Guest access and password:'''
+'''Easily retrieve deleted content'''
-If you wish guests to view your course, you will now need to set guest access and a password from ''Course administration >Users >Enrolment methods.
+A new [[Recycle bin]] available in the course administration block once an item has been deleted allows you to quickly restore that resource or activity.(It will also restore deleted courses for those with relevant permissions.)
-''
-'''Manual enrolments:'''
+[[File:NFRecycleBin.png|thumb|center|600px|Restore deleted content]]
-When enrolling students to your course manually,  note that the site default now enrols them immediately.
-'''Filter by not in group:'''
+'''Activity tagging:''' A new setting when adding activities and resources lets you tag them  so they may be searched for by others in ''Site pages > Tags''.
-There is a new option to filter students who are not in any group. You can do this in both ''Course administration > Users >Enrolled users'' and also in ''Course administration >Users > Groups >Overview''
-'''Filter by last access:''' The Enrolled users screen also allows you to filter your students by last access to the course.
+[[File:NFDTags.png|thumb|center|600px|Tagging an activity]]
-[[File:betterfiltering.png|thumb|center|600px|Filter by last access and no group]]
+'''Search everywhere:''' If enabled by your administrator, the [[Global search]] feature lets you search courses you have access to, from a box next to the user menu or from the [[Global search block]]
-'''Course tagging:'''
+[[File:NFGlobalSearch2.png|thumb|center|600px|Search the site]]
-A new setting in Course administration >Edit settings lets you tag your course so it may be searched for by others in ''Site pages > Tags''.
+'''Search for and add multiple meta linked courses:'''
+If the  [[Course meta link]] enrolment method is enabled for you, you can search for the course or courses you need and add them in one single step.
-'''Gradebook setup:'''
+[[File:NFCoursemetalink.png|thumb|center|600px|Search for and add meta linked courses]]
-If you're looking for Categories and items in the Gradebook, it's been renamed to 'Gradebook setup'.
 ==Activities==
-===Quiz===
+===Forum improvements===
-'''Four new question types:'''
+It's now possible to make important forum posts 'sticky' , by pinning them to the top of your list:
+[[File:NFPinnedposts.png|thumb|center|600px|A pinned forum post]]
+And the new 'Permalink' feature makes it easy to share direct links to interesting  individual posts:
+[[File:NFPermalink.png|thumb|center|600px|Permalink]]
+===Workshop===
+*You can specify which files students may, or may not, upload for their peer assessment task and when giving feedback.
+*A teacher can delete any workshop submission at any time, however if it has been assessed, they will be warned that the assessments will also be deleted and reviewers' grades may be affected.
+* Students can delete their own submission during the submission phase.
+[[File:NFWorkshopfiletypes.png|thumb|center|600px|Specify file types for the workshop.]]
+===SCORM===
+* The [[SCORM activity]] now supports group mode, so can be restricted to a particular [[Groupings|grouping]] and reports may be filtered by group.
+* Option to include results (whether answer was right or wrong) in interactions report download
+===Lesson===
+*Lesson set up can be simplified by your administrator to only display those settings you frequently use.
-'''MCS, MCVS, MCHS Cloze subquestion types'''
+[[File:NFLessondefaults.png|thumb|center|600px|Simpler lesson set up.]]
-===File resource===
+[[Category:New features]]
-You can now include the date a file was uploaded or modified when displaying it.
-===Wiki===
-Pages can be deleted when the course is reset.
-==Workshop==
+[[es:31/Nuevo para profesores]]
-You can now filter participants in the submission phase to easily see who has submitted and who has not.
+[[de:Neu für Trainer/innen]]

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