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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.
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 [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 3.3 release notes|Moodle 3.3 release notes]].
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             <h4>Better Office integration</h4>
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             <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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          <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>
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          <li>Certainty-based marking in Quizzes now provides improved feedback for learners.</li>
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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>
        <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, stream-lined, course management</div>
       
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          <li>Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.</li>
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          <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>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>
            <p>Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.</p>
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             <h4>5. Add a single activity course format</h4>
             <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
             <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>
             <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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              <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>Plugin to manage embedded files in TinyMCE editor</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. User-friendly 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>3. Create Additional name fields</h4>
             <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
             <p>Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.</p>
             <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
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             <h4>4. Import and export role redefinitions</h4>
             <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
             <p>Export and import role definitions as XML files.</p>
             <p> Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the [[Assignment settings|assignment set up.]]</p>
            <p>New roles may be based on existing data:</p>
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              <li>role archetype</li>
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              <li>existing role</li>
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              <li>role definition XML file</li>
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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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            <h4>5. Easily manage previously embedded files in TinyMCE text editor </h4>
            <p>Add previously embedded images or files to a page or a label in the TinyMCE text editor with the new ‘Embedded files’ repository.</p>
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            <h4>6. Backup and restore large courses</h4>
<h4>Drag and drop media</h4>
             <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>
             <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>
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             <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
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             <li>User-friendly TinyMCE editor</li>
             <li>Easily access files from Microsoft Skydrive.</li>
            <li>Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</li>
            <li>Simplified username and password recovery</li>
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             <h4>1. User-friendly TinyMCE editor</h4>
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             <p>The improved TinyMCE editor can be resized to suit various browser widths, and features user-friendly icons and a collapsible toolbar menu.</p>
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            <h4> OAuth2 authentication</h4>
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            <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>2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive</h4>
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             <p>Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.</p>
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             <h4> Document file converters</h4>
        </div>
            <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>3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</h4>
             <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
             <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>
             <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inspire Inspire plugin.]
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            <h4>4. Simplified username and password recovery</h4>
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            <p>Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
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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 3.3]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.3]]

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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