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=So what's new in Moodle 2.5?=
{{About Moodle}}
Moodle 2.5 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights some of the most useful and coolest. Click any screenshot to see it enlarged. The full details with technical information can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.5_release_notes Moodle 2.5 Release notes]
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.


==For teachers and students:==
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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===Set-up forms are much shorter===
===For all users===
If the Scroll of Death is not dead, it is certainly very ill: non-essential settings are now condensed by default, with the option to expand if required.  
<div class="contentblock">
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33officeintegration.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33CourseOverview.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
<div class="contentblock">
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33FontAwesome.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
            <p>This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33emojis2.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>Emoji support</h4>
            <p>Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered</p>
       
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


{|
===For teachers===
| [[File:shorterforms.png|thumb|Note the "expand all" option and condensed links]]
| [[File:assignmentform.png|thumb|Assignment types are neatly summarised]]
|}


In a similar space-saver, you can choose whether or not to enable the rich text editor when creating quiz questions:
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33GradeReminder2.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
            <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33TeacherAssignmentRestrictions.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
<div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File: 33CollapsibleComments.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
            <p>Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. [[Assignment settings|Read more...]]</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33BulkEditActivityCompletion.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>Better activity completion management</h4>
            <p>Bulk edit and update [[Activity completion settings|activity completion settings]] in your courses.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


{|
<div class="row-fluid">
| [[File:quizform1.png|thumb|Without the editing tools]]
    <ul class="thumbnails">
| [[File:quizform2.png|thumb|With the editing tools]]
      <li class="span6">
|}
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33DragDropMedia.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
<h4>Drag and drop media</h4>
            <p>Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33StealthActivities.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
<div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33Tagging.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4>More tag areas</h4>
            <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
         
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


===For administrators===
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33OAuth2.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File: 33DocumentConverter.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4> Document file converters</h4>
            <p>Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. [[Document converters|Read more...]]</p>
    </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
<div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33unicode.jpg|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:33AdminStealthSetting2.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <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>
          </div>
</div>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


===Folders can be displayed inline on a course page===
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <ul class="thumbnails">
      <li class="span6">
        <div class="thumbnail">
[[File:ProjectInspire_Infographic1_Feb14-2017.png|600px]]
          <div class="caption">
            <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
            <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inspire Inspire plugin.]
</p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
   
   
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>


You can now choose whether to have a folder show its contents in a separate screen, as previously, or to have it display them inline with any subfolders expanded:


{|
| [[File:folder1.png|thumb|Typical folder display before 2.5]]
| [[File:folder2.png|thumb|Folder displayed inline]]
| [[File:folder3.png|thumb|Folder displayed inline with subfolders expanded]]
|}


===Badges===
[[Category:New features]]
It's now possible for teachers to award course badges based on chosen criteria. These badges may also connect with [http://openbadges.org/ Mozilla Open Badges]


{|
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
| [[File:teacherbadgeview.png|thumb|Teacher sets up a badge]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.3]]
| [[File:studentbadgeview.png|thumb|Student view of allocated badges]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.3]]
|}
 
===Word count in forum posts===
A new setting in forums will display the number of words in a post:
 
{|
| [[File:bonding.png|thumb|Note word count bottom left]]
|
|}
 
===Templates for Essay question types===
When using the Essay question type in a quiz, you can now set a template which appears in the students' text editor for scaffolding their response:
 
{|
| [[File:templatebox.png|thumb|Response template in question set up screen]]
| [[File:quiztemplate.png|thumb|What the student sees]]
|
|}
 
===Glossary blook enhancements===
 
You can now use a global glossary in the random glossary block, and you can display the entries in alphabetical order:
{|
| [[File:glossaryalphabetical.png|thumb|Entries will display in alphabetical order]]
|}
 
 
==For administrators:==
 
===A new theme suited to all screen sizes===
"Bootstrap" is a theme which changes according to the screensize of the device used - on smaller screens for example, blocks move to the bottom, freeing up space for the main content at the top:
 
{|
| [[File:Bootrap2.png|thumb|Bootstrap theme on standard screen]]
| [[File:Bootstrap1.png|thumb|Bootstrap theme on smaller screen; note position of Navigation block]]
|}
 
===Install add-ons from inside Moodle===
It's now possible to install add-ons from within Moodle, rather than accessing folders on the server; useful for those admins who do not have FTP access. Add-ons can be uploaded and installed from a zip file or located and installed from the Moodle plugins directory:
 
{|
| [[File:Selection_011.png|thumb|Add-on install tool]]
| [[File:AddonValidation.png|thumb|Add-on passes validation; ready to go]]

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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