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Moodle 2.9 is once again the result of the hard work from our core team and community contributors. This version brings significant evolutionary improvements to the Gradebook tool, forums, analytics and usability in many areas to empower teachers and improve functionality for everyone across all devices.  
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.


Read on for Moodle 2.9 highlights, or watch the screencasts on the official [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXvtFPmd0o&list=PLxcO_MFWQBDdJmqW4tD5qXJ6pPXWTP7GL Moodle HQ 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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Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 2.9 release notes|Moodle 2.9 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>
             <h4>My home is now Dashboard</h4>
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             <p>My home has been renamed to Dashboard and where courses have assignments, these are only displayed when they need attention from the teacher (grading) or the student (submitting/resubmitting).</p>
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             <h4>Improved dashboard</h4>
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             <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>
            <h4>New My grades page</h4>
       
            <p>The user menu now  includes a new My grades page which display grades from all courses users are students in. Courses users are teaching in are also displayed. </p>
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             <h4>New My profile page</h4>
             <p>Accessed from the user menu, the new My Profile page provides quick links to blog entries, forum post, badges and, depending on the user’s privileges,  a variety of reports including a new browser sessions page.</p>
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            <h4>Browser sessions page</h4>
            <p>A new page displays your current browser sessions allowing you to check if you forgot to log off on a different computer (and log off now) and reassure yourself nobody is using your account].</p>
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            <h4>Drag and drop into Atto</h4>
            <p>It's now possible to drag and drop images directly into the Atto editor, for example when editing a course summary or when posting in a forum.</p>
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            <h4>Search server files</h4>
            <p>Users with permissions to access server files can now use a search facility, allowing for easy location of files in other courses they have access to.</p>
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            <h4>Lesson</h4>
            <p> Along with enhancements such as group support, user and group overrides better logging and  improved essay grading interface, the Lesson activity now boasts a new completion condition “Require time spent”.</p>
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            <h4> Quiz</h4>
            <p> Quizzes can now have section headings and questions can be shuffled  on different pages. It is now possible to require that a particular question be answered before a subsequent one may be accessed, and quizzes along with responses and feedback will now display attractively when printed from the browser.</p>
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             <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
             <p> If your forum has groups, you only need post once to all of them and Moodle will ensure members of each group can reply</p>
             <p>This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.</p>
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             <h4> Grade to pass</h4>
             <h4>Emoji support</h4>
             <p> If you are using graded activities it is now possible to set a passing grade during the activity set up process instead of having to edit the gradebook directly..</p>
             <p>Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered</p>
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             <h4>Subscribe to individual discussions</h4>
             <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
             <p> You can now subscribe to individual forum discussions and get email copies of just the replies you want! See [[Forum settings]].</p>
             <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
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             <h4> Better navigation through threads</h4>
             <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
             <p> Links taking you to the previous and next thread make it much easier to move between important discussions.</p>
             <p> Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the [[Assignment settings|assignment set up.]]</p>
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             <h4>Email replies to forum posts</h4>
             <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
             <p> For added convenience, you can now reply to forum posts by email, and even  include attachments! [[Using Forum| Read more...]]</p>
             <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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===New options for Quiz, Choice and Assignment===
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            <h4>Improved Quiz edit screen and completion settings</h4>
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             <p>The Edit quiz page has been rewritten for improved accessibility, making it much easier to add and manage questions. See [[Building Quiz]]. You can also set completion conditions based on a passing grade or when all available attempts have been used up.</p>
             <p>Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.</p>
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             <h4>More than one choice with Choice</h4>
             <h4>'Stealth' activities - available but not shown</h4>
             <p>You can now allow users to select more than one choice when creating a Choice. [[Choice settings|Read more.]]</p>
             <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>Additional files for assignments</h4>
             <h4>More tag areas</h4>
             <p> Teachers can now attach files for students when setting up assignments, such as example submissions or answer templates. See [[Assignment settings]].</p>
             <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
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            <h4>Stay in touch by subscribing to events</h4>
            <p>[[Event monitoring]] allows teachers, managers and admins to create and subscribe to events </p>
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            <h4>New events</h4>
            <p>More detailed  logging and events have been added, particularly in relation to grades.</p>
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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>Cohorts can be created on upload</h4>
             <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
             <p>Admins and managers can create cohorts using a csv file either, either from the Cohorts screen or when uploading users. Teachers can now by default enrol cohorts visible to them. [[Cohort sync|Read more...]].</p>
             <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inspire Inspire plugin.]
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            <p>Administrators can now have a clear overview of all system and category cohorts from the new All cohorts screen. See [[Cohorts]].</p>
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==See also==


[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.9]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]


[[Category:New features]]


* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.9
[[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

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    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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