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             <h4>Better navigation with Boost</h4>
             <h4>Better navigation with Boost</h4>
             <p> [[Competencies|Competency based education]] is now fully supported in Moodle 3.1</p>
             <p> A new responsive theme[[Boost theme|Boost]] improves navigation within and between courses. </p>
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             <h4>Media player enhancements</h4>
             <h4>Media player enhancements</h4>
             <p> Grading [[Assignment]] submissions has got smoother with all elements on one screen and the ability to annotate over student submissions of different file types..</p>
             <p> Your favourite video types display across devices and browsers with subtitle and caption support.</p>
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             <h4>Course end dates</h4>
             <h4>Discussion locking</h4>
             <p>Select which assignments you want to download for offline viewing from a new option in the menu</p>
             <p>Easily close forum discussions after a certain period. Read more..</p>
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             <h4>Interactive report charts</h4>
             <h4>Interactive report charts</h4>
             <p>The new [[Recycle bin]], funded by the [https://moodleassociation.org/ Moodle Users Association], means you no longer need worry about losing accidentally deleted course items or courses, as it's now possible easily to restore them.</p>
             <p>Interactive and responsive charts now show reports dynamically to course participants.</p>
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<h4>Discussion locking</h4>
<h4>Assignment overrides</h4>
             <p>Important forum posts can now be pinned to the top of your list, making them more visible to your students. [[Using Forum|Read more...]]</p>
             <p>Easily change assignment deadlines for individuals or groups. [[Using Assignment|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Workshop portfolio export</h4>
             <p> When setting up a workshop, you can now specify the types of file you want students to submit or not. Students may also now deleted their own submissions. See [[Workshop settings]]</p>
             <p> Workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to an external portfolio by students and teachers. See [[Workshop settings]]</p>
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             <h4>Lesson page duplication</h4>
             <p>The [[Publish as LTI tool]] allows remote users to access selected courses and activities on your site. Grades are sent back to the remote system.</p>
             <p>Quickly copy a lesson page to use as a template in your lesson activity.</p>
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             <h4>Course end dates</h4>
             <p>Course activities and resources may now be [[Tags|tagged]], making it simpler to find related content.</p>
             <p>You can now set an end date as well as a start date for your course.</p>
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             <h4> Rubrics calculation improvements</h4>
             <h4> Rubrics calculation improvements</h4>
             <p>Change section titles without leaving the page, speeding up your course creation. [[Course homepage|Read more...]]</p>
             <p>Arbitrary scoring is now possible when grading with a rubric.</p>
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             <h4>Easily share course content</h4>
             <h4>Easily share course content</h4>
             <p>Search for meta linked courses and add them together in one step. See [[Course meta link]] </p>
             <p>LTI compliance and a new Content item feature make sharing across sites and courses more user-friendly. </p>
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Revision as of 12:28, 13 November 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.

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    Media player enhancements

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

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    Discussion locking

    Easily close forum discussions after a certain period. Read more..

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    Interactive report charts

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

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    Assignment overrides

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

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    Workshop portfolio export

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

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    Lesson page duplication

    Quickly copy a lesson page to use as a template in your lesson activity.

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    Course end dates

    You can now set an end date as well as a start date for your course.

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    Rubrics calculation improvements

    Arbitrary scoring is now possible when grading with a rubric.

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    Easily share course content

    LTI compliance and a new Content item feature make sharing across sites and courses more user-friendly.

For administrators

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    New customisable Boost theme

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

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    Competency framework import/export

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

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    User tours

    Let your your staff and students search the site by enabling Global search and installing Solr.

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    New media player plugins

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

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    LTI2 Compliance

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

For all users

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    Improved messaging

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

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    Mobile app out of the box

    Search all courses you have access to and quickly find that important resource using the Global search.

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