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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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.