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{{About Moodle}}
{{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
If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.2


==Assessing and progress tracking==
==Navigation changes==
With Competency based education, you can link competencies to a learning plan and review students' progress towards specific achievements.
*A new core theme, Boost, bring with it important navigation and course editing changes.
*New courses using the Boost theme will no longer display blocks, in line with mobile app usage, although you may still add blocks if you need to.
*A nav drawer on the left replaces the navigation block and may be opened and closed to free up space.


[[File:NFTeacherCompetencyView.png|thumb|center|600px|Competencies/Learning plan]]
[[File:docsTeacherNavigation.png|thumb|center|600px|The nav drawer]]


==Assignment grading==
==Course editing==
Grade assignments more efficiently with everything on one screen and the ability (if enabled by admin) to annotate any uploaded file type.
*In the new Boost theme, a gear menu is present at the top of the course page.
*Here you can turn on editing andlocate other important aspects of the course.
* A 'More' link leads to course administration settings.


[[File:NFAssignmentGrading2.png|thumb|center|600px|The new assignment grading screen]]
[[File:docsTeacherCourseEditing.png|thumb|center|600px|Gear menu for course editing]]


==Course editing==
*Existing activities and resources may be a gear menu within the activity.
Section titles can now be changed directly from the course page:
[[File:Docs_ActivityEditing.png|thumb|center|600px|Activity editing]]


[[File:NFedittopicname.png|thumb|center|600px|Edit titles inline]]
*Your favourite sound and video files will display more efficiently across browsers, with caption and subtitling options.


[[File:Docs_MediaPlayer.png|thumb|center|600px|Media file display]]
==Course management==
==Course management==
'''Easily retrieve deleted content'''
*Enrolments may be quickly handled by clicking the gear in the Participants link:
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.)
 
[[File:NFRecycleBin.png|thumb|center|600px|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''.


[[File:NFDTags.png|thumb|center|600px|Tagging an activity]]
[[File:Docs_ParticipantsEnrolment.png|thumb|center|600px|Enrolment link in Participants screen]]


'''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]]
*It's now possible to set an end date for your course as well as a start date, ''although this does not affect students being able to access your course.''


[[File:NFGlobalSearch2.png|thumb|center|600px|Search the site]]
[[File:Docs_CourseEndDate.png|thumb|center|600px|Course end date]]


'''Search for and add multiple meta linked courses:'''
*Rubrics may have negative scores, for example to penalise students who submit late.
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.


[[File:NFCoursemetalink.png|thumb|center|600px|Search for and add meta linked courses]]
[[File:DocsArbitraryScoring.png|thumb|center|600px|Rubric with negative score]]


==Activities==
==Activities==


===Forum improvements===
===Forum: Discussion locking===


It's now possible to make important forum posts 'sticky' , by pinning them to the top of your list:
It's now possible to lock discussions after a specified time


[[File:NFPinnedposts.png|thumb|center|600px|A pinned forum post]]
[[File:Docs_DiscussionLocking.png|thumb|center|600px|A locked forum discussion]]


And the new 'Permalink' feature makes it easy to share direct links to interesting  individual posts:
===Choice: Selection by teacher===
Teachers may now make selections on behalf of students.


[[File:NFPermalink.png|thumb|center|600px|Permalink]]
[[File:Docs_TeacherSelect.png|thumb|center|600px|Teacher choice selection]]


===Workshop===
===Workshop: Portfolio export===
*You can specify which files students may, or may not, upload for their peer assessment task and when giving feedback.
A new capability ''workshop:exportsubmissions'', given to teachers and students by default, means workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to external portfolios such as Mahara.
*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.]]
[[File:Docs_ExportPortfolio.png|thumb|center|600px|Submission export.]]


===SCORM===
===Assignment: Overrides===
Deadlines for assignments may now be overridden for individual students and groups (in the same way as for quizzes) with this new feature.


* The [[SCORM activity]] now supports group mode, so can be restricted to a particular [[Groupings|grouping]] and reports may be filtered by group.
[[File:Docs_AssignmentOverride.png|thumb|center|600px|Assignment override.]]
* Option to include results (whether answer was right or wrong) in interactions report download


===Lesson===
===Lesson: Content page duplication===
*Lesson set up can be simplified by your administrator to only display those settings you frequently use.
When creating several similar content pages within a lesson, a duplicate icon allows for easily copying.


[[File:NFLessondefaults.png|thumb|center|600px|Simpler lesson set up.]]
[[File:Docs_LessonPageDuplication.png|thumb|center|600px|Duplicate icon.]]


[[Category:New features]]
[[Category:New features]]


[[es:Nuevo para profesores]]
[[es:32/Nuevo para profesores]]
[[de:Neu für Trainer/innen]]
[[de:Neu für Trainer/innen]]

Latest revision as of 02:03, 14 January 2018

If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.2

Navigation changes

  • A new core theme, Boost, bring with it important navigation and course editing changes.
  • New courses using the Boost theme will no longer display blocks, in line with mobile app usage, although you may still add blocks if you need to.
  • A nav drawer on the left replaces the navigation block and may be opened and closed to free up space.
The nav drawer

Course editing

  • In the new Boost theme, a gear menu is present at the top of the course page.
  • Here you can turn on editing andlocate other important aspects of the course.
  • A 'More' link leads to course administration settings.
Gear menu for course editing
  • Existing activities and resources may be a gear menu within the activity.
Activity editing
  • Your favourite sound and video files will display more efficiently across browsers, with caption and subtitling options.
Media file display

Course management

  • Enrolments may be quickly handled by clicking the gear in the Participants link:
Enrolment link in Participants screen
  • It's now possible to set an end date for your course as well as a start date, although this does not affect students being able to access your course.
Course end date
  • Rubrics may have negative scores, for example to penalise students who submit late.
Rubric with negative score

Activities

Forum: Discussion locking

It's now possible to lock discussions after a specified time

A locked forum discussion

Choice: Selection by teacher

Teachers may now make selections on behalf of students.

Teacher choice selection

Workshop: Portfolio export

A new capability workshop:exportsubmissions, given to teachers and students by default, means workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to external portfolios such as Mahara.

Submission export.

Assignment: Overrides

Deadlines for assignments may now be overridden for individual students and groups (in the same way as for quizzes) with this new feature.

Assignment override.

Lesson: Content page duplication

When creating several similar content pages within a lesson, a duplicate icon allows for easily copying.

Duplicate icon.