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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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDcKOIakLZwAhsoKSZXz9Cz9  Moodle 3.3 highlights screencasts] on our YouTube page.


Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.3 release notes|Moodle 3.3 release notes]].
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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.
===For all users===
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            <h4>Better Office integration</h4>
            <p>Log in, easily access documents from Microsoft Office and the Google G-Suite and [[Linked Logins|link your accounts.]].</p>
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            <h4>Improved dashboard</h4>
            <p>Thanks to this [https://moodleassociation.org/ Moodle Users Association (MUA)] project, you can now check course progress, upcoming activities and gradeable activities from the new [[Course overview|Course overview block]].</p>
       
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            <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
            <p>This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.</p>
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            <h4>Emoji support</h4>
            <p>Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered</p>
       
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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.]
===For teachers===


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            <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
            <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
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            <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
            <p> Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the [[Assignment settings|assignment set up.]]</p>
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            <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
            <p>Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. [[Assignment settings|Read more...]]</p>
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            <h4>Better activity completion management</h4>
            <p>Bulk edit and update [[Activity completion settings|activity completion settings]] in your courses.</p>
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==For teachers==
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<h4>Drag and drop media</h4>
            <p>Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.</p>
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            <h4>'Stealth' activities - available but not shown</h4>
            <p>An improvement on  'orphaned sections', links may now be made to activities which are not shown on the course page. See [[Stealth activities]].</p>
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            <h4>More tag areas</h4>
            <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
         
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===Improved edit icons for usability across all screens===
===For administrators===
To make it easier to edit on mobile devices and tablets, a number of edit icons have been grouped together:
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            <h4> OAuth2 authentication</h4>
            <p> Allow users to authenticate with Google G-Suite or Microsoft Office accounts and manage files from associated drives. [[OAuth 2 services|Read more...]]</p>
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            <h4> Document file converters</h4>
            <p>Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. [[Document converters|Read more...]]</p>
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            <h4>Improved MySQL support</h4>
            <p>[[MySQL full unicode 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 .</p>
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            <h4> New "Stealth" mode setting</h4>
            <p> A new admin setting extends the functionality to link to activities without showing them on the course page. See [[Stealth activities]].</p>
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            <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
            <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inspire Inspire plugin.]
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===Single activity course format===


This new format allows teachers to choose just one activity (any type) which is displayed directly on the course page.  (It supersedes the old SCORM course format)
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[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
 
  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.3]]
===Marking workflow and allocation===
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.3]]
Teachers can now control visiblity of grades for students until for example they have been reviewed and moderated. Teachers can be allocated to mark individual student assignments and these allocations show up clearly in the gradebook.
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|[[File:26markingworkflowallocatedmarkers.png|250px|thumb|Grading screen showing different markers at different stages of the workflow]]
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===Annotate uploaded pdfs in the browser===
When students upload assignments as pdfs, the teacher can feedback directly on the file, using stamps, phrases from a comment bank and a variety of annotating tools.
 
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|[[File:26annotatepdf.png|250|thumb|Annotating a student pdf]]
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===More detailed feedback for Certainty-based marking in Quizzes===
Quizzes using Certainty based marking now provide much improved feedback for the students:
 
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|[[File:26CBM.png|250px|thumb|Improved CBM feedback]]
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==For managers and administrators==
===Bulk create courses===
It is now possible to bulk create(and delete) courses using a csv file and to set a course template.
 
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|[[File:uploadcoursesresults.png|250px|thumb|Courses successfully uploaded]]
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===Better management of categories and courses===
The category management pages have been improved to make them more streamlined and easier to organise.
 
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|[[File:coursecategorymanagement.png|250px|thumb|Managing categories (2 examples)]]
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|[[File:coursemanagement.png|250px|thumb|Selecting and managing one course]]
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===Additional name fields===
Site administrators can display the names of users with non-Romanised scripts both in their own script and phonetically or using Romanised script:
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|[[File:26names.png|250pz|thumb|Example of additional name fields]]
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===Role definition export and import===
|[[File:26roleexport.png|250pz|thumb|Role definition export]]
 
==For all users==
 
===Collapsible TinyMCE editor===
The TinyMCE editor has new icons and can be toggled between one and three lines to save space.
 
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===Access files from Microsoft Skydrive===
Users may now retrieve files from their Skydrive account to use in Moodle courses.
 
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==See also==
 
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.6]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
 
* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.6

Latest revision as of 16:30, 16 May 2017

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

  • 33FontAwesome.png

    Font Awesome

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

  • 33emojis2.png

    Emoji support

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

For teachers

  • 33GradeReminder2.png

    Set a 'Grade by' reminder

    Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview

  • 33TeacherAssignmentRestrictions.png

    Specify assignment file types

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

  • 33CollapsibleComments.png

    Collapse comments in assignments

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

  • 33BulkEditActivityCompletion.png

    Better activity completion management

    Bulk edit and update activity completion settings in your courses.

  • 33DragDropMedia.png

    Drag and drop media

    Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.

  • 33StealthActivities.png

    '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.

  • 33Tagging.png

    More tag areas

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

For administrators

  • 33OAuth2.png

    OAuth2 authentication

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

  • 33DocumentConverter.png

    Document file converters

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

  • ProjectInspire Infographic1 Feb14-2017.png

    Learning analytics plugin

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

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