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Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights a few of the most interesting.
Moodle 3.2 focuses on improving the user experience and on accessibility. A new theme with better navigation, improved messaging, step-by-step user tours and the ability to import competency frameworks complement significant activity enhancements such as discussion locking, extra media player options and LTI 2 compliance.
Read on for Moodle 3.2 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.2 highlights screencasts on our [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDfrcwIG_jYHr7BrOLD-fPL4 YouTube page].


Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.6_release_notes Moodle 2.6 Release notes.]
Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.2 release notes|Moodle 3.2 release notes]].
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             <h4>Better navigation with Boost</h4>
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             <p> A new responsive theme[[Boost theme|Boost]] improves navigation within and between courses. </p>
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        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Improved grading features</div>
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          <li>Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within browser.</li>
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          <li>Conveniently allocate student assignments to different markers, and control when marks are released to individual students.</li>
             <h4>Easier editing with Boost</h4>
          <li>Certainty-based marking in Quizzes now provides improved feedback for learners.</li>
             <p> Gear menus in the new Boost theme enhance the editing experience</p>
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        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Dynamic, streamlined, course management</div>
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          <li>Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.</li>
          <li>Easily add a Single activity course format.</li>
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             <h4>1. Annotate uploaded PDF files in browser</h4>
             <p>Provide feedback directly within PDF file submissions by using a variety of annotating tools available, including stamps and phrases from a comment bank.</p>
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             <h4>2. Enhanced marking workflow and allocation</h4>
             <p>Control when marks are released for viewing, for example, when they have been reviewed and moderated. Individual markers can also be allocated assignments and these allocations will show up clearly in the gradebook.</p>
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            <h4>Media player improvements</h4>
            <p>Your favourite video types display across devices and browsers with subtitle and caption support...</p>
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            <h4>Interactive report charts</h4>
            <p>Interactive and responsive charts now show reports dynamically to course participants.</p>
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            <h4>3. Enhanced feedback in Certainty-based marking</h4>
            <p>Quizzes using Certainty-based marking now provide better feedback for learners.</p>
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             <h4>4. Easily edit course activities and resources</h4>
<h4>Discussion locking</h4>
             <p>Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.</p>
            <p>Easily close forum discussions after a period of inactivity.</p>
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             <h4>Assignment overrides</h4>
             <p>Easily change assignment deadlines for individuals or groups. [[Using Assignment|Read more...]] </p>
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             <h4>Workshop portfolio export</h4>
             <h4>5. Add a Single activity course format</h4>
             <p>Workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to an external portfolio by students and teachers. See [[Workshop settings]].</p>
             <p>Simply select and add any one activity as a standard course format which is displayed directed on the course page (This feature supersedes the old SCORM course format).</p>
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=== For administrators and managers ===
             <h4>Select for students in Choice</h4>
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             <p>Make a selection on behalf of students in the Choice activity.</p>
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            <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Enhanced platform management</div>
            <ul>
              <li>Create and manage bulk courses efficiently</li>
              <li>Simpler course and category management</li>
              <li>Create additional name fields </li>
              <li>Conveniently import and export role definition using XML file</li>
              <li>Restoring of very large courses possible</li>
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            <h4>1. Bulk course creation tool</h4>
            <p>Create multiple courses efficiently using a single CSV file.  The functionality also extends to updating or deleting courses as well as importing content from another course.</p>
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             <h4>2. Streamlined course and category management</h4>
             <p>Easily sort, create, and delete course categories in a more intuitive interface with drag and drop functionality.</p>
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             <h4>Negative scores for rubrics</h4>
             <h4>3. Create additional name fields</h4>
             <p>The [[Rubrics]] grade calculation has been improved and now allows for negative scores.</p>
             <p>Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.</p>
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[[File:role-def.png|600px]]
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            <h4>4. Import and export role redefinitions</h4>
            <p>Export and import role definitions as XML files.New roles may be based on existing data:</p>
            <ul>
              <li>role archetype</li>
              <li>existing role</li>
              <li>role definition XML file</li>
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===For administrators===
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             <h4>5. Backup and restore large courses</h4>
[[File:Docs_BoostAdminSettings.png|600px]]
             <p>Backup and restore large courses Improved performance allows users to quickly backup large courses safely and if needed, easily restore the courses for use.</p>
          <div class="caption">
           </div>
            <h4> New customisable Boost theme</h4>
        </div>
            <p>A new, customisable core theme with a fresh look enhances navigation and usability.  </p>
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     </ul>
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      </li>
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            <h4>User tours </h4>
            <p>This new feature lets you take your users, step-by-step, around Moodle. [[User tours|Read more...]].</p>
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        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
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[[File:Docs_CompetencyFrameworkImport.png|600px]]
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             <h4>Competency frameworks import and export</h4>
            <p>[[Competency frameworks]] may now be imported, exported and easily shared between sites. </p>
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        </div>
      </li>
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[[File:Docs_AdminMediaPlayer.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>New media player plugins</h4>
             <p>Video and audio are more accessible, usable and customisable with a new default player, [[VideoJS player]], and increased pluggable support. </p>
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       </li>
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=== For all users ===
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[[File:forusers.png|link=|300px]]
[[File:LTI12.png|600px]]
        </div>
           <div class="caption">
      </div>
             <h4> LTI 2 compliance</h4>
      <div class="span8">
             <p>Cartridges, Content items and compliance with LTI 2 providers mean sharing between sites and courses is much easier.</p>
        <div style="color: #555;">
           </div>
          <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Experience a better learning platform</div>
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          <ul>
       </li>
            <li>A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor </li>
       <li class="span6">
            <li>Easily access files from Microsoft Skydrive.</li>
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            <li>Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</li>
[[File:Docs_CourseEndDate.png|600px]]
            <li>Simplified username and password recovery</li>
           <div class="caption">
            <li>Improved file management in TinyMCE editor</li>
             <h4>Course end dates </h4>
            <li>Better responsive design across devices</li>
             <p>Set end dates as well as start dates for courses.</p>
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    </div>
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     <ul class="thumbnails">
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[[File:improved-tinymce.png|600px]]
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             <h4>1. A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor</h4>
             <p>The improved TinyMCE editor can be resized to suit various browser widths, and features user-friendly icons and a collapsible toolbar menu.</p>
           </div>
         </div>
       </li>
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[[File:moodle-skydrive.png|600px]]
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             <h4>2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive</h4>
             <p>Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.</p>
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         </div>
       </li>
     </ul>
   </div>
   </div>


   <div class="row-fluid">
===For all users===
     <ul class="thumbnails">
       <li class="span6">
<div class="contentblock">
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   <div class="row-fluid">
[[File:multiple-calendar-support.png|600px]]
     <ul class="thumbnails">
           <div class="caption">
       <li class="span6">
             <h4>3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</h4>
         <div class="thumbnail">
             <p>Moodle 2.6 supports and displays the same date in multiple calendar system, including Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic and more, so you can select a preferred calendar system.</p>
[[File:Docs_Messaging.png|600px]]
           </div>
           <div class="caption">
         </div>
             <h4>User-friendly messaging and alerts</h4>
       </li>
             <p>Quickly access [[Messaging|messages]] and [[Notifications|notifications]] wherever you are on the site .</p>
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           </div>
         <div class="thumbnail">
         </div>
[[File:password-recovery.|600px]]
       </li>
           <div class="caption">
       <li class="span6">
             <h4>4. Simplified username and password recovery</h4>
         <div class="thumbnail">
             <p>Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
[[File:DocsMobileGrading.png|600px]]
           </div>
           <div class="caption">
         </div>
             <h4>Mobile app out of the box</h4>
       </li>
             <p>More features than ever now work directly from the [[Moodle Mobile|Moodle Mobile app]].</p>
     </ul>
       
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         </div>
       </li>
     </ul>
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[[File:manage-embedded-files.png|600px]]
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            <h4>5. Improve file management in TinyMCE editor </h4>
            <p>Add and manage previously embedded images or files to a page or a label in the TinyMCE text editor with the new Embedded files repository and TinyMCE Manage Embedded files plugin.</p>
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        </div>
      </li>
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[[File:better-responsive-design.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>6. Better responsive design </h4>
            <p> Moodle works and looks better across all devices, including desktops, tablets and phones.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
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==See also==


[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.6]]
[[Category:New features]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]


* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.6
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.2]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.2]]

Latest revision as of 12:47, 5 December 2016

Moodle 3.2 focuses on improving the user experience and on accessibility. A new theme with better navigation, improved messaging, step-by-step user tours and the ability to import competency frameworks complement significant activity enhancements such as discussion locking, extra media player options and LTI 2 compliance.

Read on for Moodle 3.2 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.2 highlights screencasts on our YouTube page.

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 3.2 release notes.

For teachers

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    Better navigation with Boost

    A new responsive themeBoost improves navigation within and between courses.

  • docsTeacherCourseEditing.png

    Easier editing with Boost

    Gear menus in the new Boost theme enhance the editing experience

  • Docs MediaPlayer.png

    Media player improvements

    Your favourite video types display across devices and browsers with subtitle and caption support...

  • Docs DynamicGraphs.png

    Interactive report charts

    Interactive and responsive charts now show reports dynamically to course participants.

  • Docs DiscussionLocking.png

    Discussion locking

    Easily close forum discussions after a period of inactivity.

  • Docs AssignmentOverride.png

    Assignment overrides

    Easily change assignment deadlines for individuals or groups. Read more...

  • Docs ExportPortfolio.png

    Workshop portfolio export

    Workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to an external portfolio by students and teachers. See Workshop settings.

  • Docs TeacherSelect.png

    Select for students in Choice

    Make a selection on behalf of students in the Choice activity.

  • DocsArbitraryScoring.png

    Negative scores for rubrics

    The Rubrics grade calculation has been improved and now allows for negative scores.

For administrators

  • Docs BoostAdminSettings.png

    New customisable Boost theme

    A new, customisable core theme with a fresh look enhances navigation and usability.

  • Docs Usertours.png

    User tours

    This new feature lets you take your users, step-by-step, around Moodle. Read more....

  • Docs CompetencyFrameworkImport.png

    Competency frameworks import and export

    Competency frameworks may now be imported, exported and easily shared between sites.

  • Docs AdminMediaPlayer.png

    New media player plugins

    Video and audio are more accessible, usable and customisable with a new default player, VideoJS player, and increased pluggable support.

  • LTI12.png

    LTI 2 compliance

    Cartridges, Content items and compliance with LTI 2 providers mean sharing between sites and courses is much easier.

  • Docs CourseEndDate.png

    Course end dates

    Set end dates as well as start dates for courses.

For all users

  • Docs Messaging.png

    User-friendly messaging and alerts

    Quickly access messages and notifications wherever you are on the site .

  • DocsMobileGrading.png

    Mobile app out of the box

    More features than ever now work directly from the Moodle Mobile app.

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