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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.
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 3.2 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.2 highlights screencasts on our [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDfrcwIG_jYHr7BrOLD-fPL4 YouTube page].
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 [[:dev:Moodle 3.2 release notes|Moodle 3.2 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 navigation with Boost</h4>
             <h4>Better Office integration</h4>
             <p> A new responsive theme[[Boost theme|Boost]] improves navigation within and between courses. </p>
             <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>Easier editing with Boost</h4>
             <h4>Improved dashboard</h4>
             <p> Gear menus in the new Boost theme enhance the editing experience</p>
             <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>Media player improvements</h4>
             <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
             <p>Your favourite video types display across devices and browsers with subtitle and caption support...</p>
             <p>This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.</p>
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             <h4>Interactive report charts</h4>
             <h4>Emoji support</h4>
             <p>Interactive and responsive charts now show reports dynamically to course participants.</p>
             <p>Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered</p>
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<h4>Discussion locking</h4>
            <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
             <p>Easily close forum discussions after a period of inactivity.</p>
             <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
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             <h4>Assignment overrides</h4>
             <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
             <p>Easily change assignment deadlines for individuals or groups. [[Using Assignment|Read more...]] </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>Workshop portfolio export</h4>
             <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
             <p>Workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to an external portfolio by students and teachers. See [[Workshop settings]].</p>
             <p>Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. [[Assignment settings|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Select for students in Choice</h4>
             <h4>Better activity completion management</h4>
             <p>Make a selection on behalf of students in the Choice activity.</p>
             <p>Bulk edit and update [[Activity completion settings|activity completion settings]] in your courses.</p>
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            <p>Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.</p>
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             <h4>Negative scores for rubrics</h4>
             <h4>'Stealth' activities - available but not shown</h4>
             <p>The [[Rubrics]] grade calculation has been improved and now allows for negative scores.</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>Easily share course content</h4>
             <h4>More tag areas</h4>
             <p>LTI compliance and a new Content item feature make sharing across sites and courses more user-friendly. </p>
             <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
         
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             <h4> New customisable Boost theme</h4>
             <h4> OAuth2 authentication</h4>
             <p>A new, customisable core theme with a fresh look enhances navigation and usability. </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>User tours </h4>
             <h4> Document file converters</h4>
             <p>This new feature lets you take your users, step-by-step, around Moodle. [[User tours|Read more...]].</p>
             <p>Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. [[Document converters|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Competency frameworks import and export</h4>
             <h4>Improved MySQL support</h4>
             <p>Competency frameworks may now be imported, exported and easily shared between sites. </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>New media player plugins</h4>
             <h4> New "Stealth" mode setting</h4>
             <p>Video and audio are more accessible, usable and customisable with two new players and increased pluggable support. </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> LTI 2 Compliance</h4>
             <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
             <p>Cartridges, Content items and compliance with LTI 2 providers mean sharing between sites and courses is much easier.</p>
             <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inspire Inspire plugin.]
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            <h4>Course end dates </h4>
            <p>Set end dates as well as start dates for courses.</p>
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            <h4>User-friendly messaging and alerts</h4>
            <p>Quickly access [[Messaging|messages]] and notifications wherever you are on the site .</p>
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            <h4>Mobile app out of the box</h4>
            <p>More features than ever now work directly from the [[Moodle Mobile|Moodle Mobile app]].</p>
       
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[[Category:New features]]
[[Category:New features]]


  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.1]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
  [[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.1]]
  [[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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