New features
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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Better Office integration
Log in, easily access documents from Microsoft Office and the Google G-Suite and link your accounts..
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Improved dashboard
Thanks to this Moodle Users Association (MUA) project, you can now check course progress, upcoming activities and gradeable activities from the new Course overview block.
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Font Awesome
This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.
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Emoji support
Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered
For teachers
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Set a 'Grade by' reminder
Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview
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Specify assignment file types
Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the assignment set up.
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Collapse comments in assignments
Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. Read more...
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Better activity completion management
Bulk edit and update activity completion settings in your courses.
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Drag and drop media
Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.
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'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.
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More tag areas
Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.
For administrators
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OAuth2 authentication
Allow users to authenticate with Google G-Suite or Microsoft Office accounts and manage files from associated drives. Read more...
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Document file converters
Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. Read more...
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Improved MySQL 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 .
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New "Stealth" mode setting
A new admin setting extends the functionality to link to activities without showing them on the course page. See Stealth activities.
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Learning analytics plugin
Be a part of Project inspire by installing the anonymise local plugin.
