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{{About Moodle}}
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.


{{About Moodle}}
Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.3 release notes|Moodle 3.3 release notes]].
Moodle 3.0 combines popularity with efficiency offering enhanced options for installing plugins, four new quiz question types, tagging and course editing improvements along with  a number of other welcome features.
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Read on for Moodle 3.0 highlights or watch the screencasts on our official Youtube page (coming soon).
===For all users===
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Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.0 release notes|Moodle 3.0  release notes]].
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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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             <h4>Select missing words</h4>
             <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
             <p>The [[Select missing words question type]] is one of four new question types added to core in Moodle 3.0</p>
             <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
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             <h4>Drag and drop into text</h4>
             <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
             <p> The [[Drag and drop into text question type]] is one of four new question types added to core in Moodle 3.0</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>Drag and drop onto image</h4>
             <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
             <p>The [[Drag and drop onto image question type]] is one of four new question types added to core in Moodle 3.0. Students drag either text or small images onto a background picture uploaded by the teacher.</p>
             <p>Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. [[Assignment settings|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Drag and drop markers</h4>
             <h4>Better activity completion management</h4>
             <p> The [[Drag and drop markers question type]] is one of four new question types added to core in Moodle 3.0. Students drag text markers to a location predefined by the teacher on a background image.</p>
             <p>Bulk edit and update [[Activity completion settings|activity completion settings]] in your courses.</p>
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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>Easier section editing</h4>
             <h4>'Stealth' activities - available but not shown</h4>
             <p>Options for editing highlighting hiding and deleting sections are now combined into one action menu streamlining the course page and simplifying the editing process. [[Course homepage|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>Show the date a file was uploaded</h4>
             <h4>More tag areas</h4>
             <p> A new [[File resource settings|File setting]] means teachers can now display the date a file resource was uploaded or changed, giving students a better user experience. </p>
             <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
         
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             <h4>Major improvements to plugins upgrading</h4>
             <h4> OAuth2 authentication</h4>
             <p>The interface and functionality for upgrading plugins within Moodle has been improved. [[Installing plugins|Read more...]]</p>
             <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> Reset Dashboard and profiles for all users</h4>
             <h4> Document file converters</h4>
             <p>A new 'Reset' button the default dashboard and profile pages means administrators can now specify blocks on these pages and apply the changes to everyone on the site.Read more about [[Dashboard]] and [[Profile]]</p>
             <p>Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. [[Document converters|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Better handling of tags</h4>
             <h4>Improved MySQL support</h4>
             <p>The Manage tags page interface has been brought up to date and teachers may now tag courses from the Edit settings page. [[Tags|Read more...]]</p>
             <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>A new key for safer upgrading</h4>
             <h4> New "Stealth" mode setting</h4>
             <p>An upgrade key can now be defined which will prevent non-authenticated users accessing the upgrade screen. [[Upgrade key|Find our more...]]</p>
             <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>Atto editor improvements</h4>
             <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
             <p>Now you can more easily add and configure tables when editing text and there are some new equations in the equation editor [[Atto editor|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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            <h4>Delete messages</h4>
            <p>Unwanted messages may be deleted from your list (although they remain for the recipient) There is a new associated event message/delete [[Messaging|Read more...]] </p>
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[[Category:New features]]


* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 3.0
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.3]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.0]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.3]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]

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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