New features

Following on from Moodle 3.2’s focus on improving accessibility and users’ experience, Moodle 3.3 continues to enhance these objectives through a number of new features and improvements.

Read on for Moodle 3.3 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.3 highlights screencasts on our YouTube page.

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 3.3 release notes.

For all users

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  Better Office integration

  Log in, easily access documents from Microsoft Office and the Google G-Suite and link your accounts..

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  Improved dashboard

  Thanks to this Moodle Users Association (MUA) project, you can now check course progress, upcoming activities and gradeable activities from the new Course overview block.

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  Font Awesome

  This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.

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  Emoji support

  Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered

For teachers

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  Set a 'Grade by' reminder

  Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview

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  Specify assignment file types

  Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the assignment set up.

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  Collapse comments in assignments

  Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. Read more...

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  Better activity completion management

  Bulk edit and update activity completion settings in your courses.

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  Drag and drop media

  Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.

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  'Stealth' activities - available but not shown

  An improvement on 'orphaned sections', links may now be made to activities which are not shown on the course page. See Stealth activities.

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  More tag areas

  Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.

For administrators

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  OAuth2 authentication

  Allow users to authenticate with Google G-Suite or Microsoft Office accounts and manage files from associated drives. Read more...

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  Document file converters

  Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. Read more...

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  Improved MySQL support

  Improved support of multibyte unicode characters on MySQL databases means languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Korean work more naturally -and emoji characters are supported throughout the site .

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  New "Stealth" mode setting

  A new admin setting extends the functionality to link to activities without showing them on the course page. See Stealth activities.

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  Learning analytics plugin

  Be a part of Project inspire by installing the Inspire plugin.