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Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights a few of the most interesting.
Moodle 3.5 focuses on GDPR compliance and enhanced usability and accessiblity.
Read on for Moodle 3.5 highlights, or watch our [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDcnwHQwhHZtObHNMHoONx-C Youtube playlist of 3.5 New features.]


Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.6_release_notes Moodle 2.6 Release notes.]
Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.5 release notes|Moodle 3.5 release notes]].
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===For all users===
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            <h4>Privacy and policies area in Profile</h4>
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            <p>Access site policies and make data requests from links in your [[Profile]].</p>
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        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Improved grading features</div>
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          <li>Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within browser.</li>
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           <li>Conveniently allocate student assignments to different markers, and control when marks are released to individual students.</li>
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          <li>Certainty-based marking in Quizzes now provides improved feedback for learners.</li>
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            <h4>Course images on the dashboard</h4>
 
<p>Images or coloured patterns brighten up course descriptions on the dashboard [[Course overview]].</p>
        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Dynamic, streamlined, course management</div>
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          <li>Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.</li>
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           <li>Easily add a Single activity course format.</li>
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             <h4>1. Annotate uploaded PDF files in browser</h4>
             <h4>Clearer icons, accessible fonts</h4>
             <p>Provide feedback directly within PDF file submissions by using a variety of annotating tools available, including stamps and phrases from a comment bank.</p>
             <p>The use of Bootstrap 4 stable means enhanced appearance for users and better theming options for developers.</p>
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             <h4>2. Enhanced marking workflow and allocation</h4>
             <h4>Directly record sound and video</h4>
             <p>Control when marks are released for viewing, for example, when they have been reviewed and moderated. Individual markers can also be allocated assignments and these allocations will show up clearly in the gradebook.</p>
             <p>Buttons in the [[Atto editor]] allow you to record directly into Moodle</p>
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             <h4>3. Enhanced feedback in Certainty-based marking</h4>
             <h4>Choice results display</h4>
             <p>Quizzes using Certainty-based marking now provide better feedback for learners.</p>
             <p>Know in advance how the Choice results will display</p>
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             <h4>4. Easily edit course activities and resources</h4>
             <h4>Moodle from your Mobile!</h4>
             <p>Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.</p>
             <p>A new improved  [[Moodle Mobile app|Moodle app]].</p>
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            <h4>5. Add a Single activity course format</h4>
            <p>Simply select and add any one activity as a standard course format which is displayed directed on the course page (This feature supersedes the old SCORM course format).</p>
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             <h4>More efficient user management</h4>
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             <p>Search, filter and bulk edit or delete self enrolled learners from the [[Participants|Participants and Enrolments screen]].</p>
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            <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Enhanced platform management</div>
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              <li>Create and manage bulk courses efficiently</li>
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              <li>Simpler course and category management</li>
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              <li>Create additional name fields </li>
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              <li>Conveniently import and export role definition using XML file</li>
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              <li>Restoring of very large courses possible</li>
             <h4>Award badges based on other badges</h4>
            </ul>
             <p>Amongst new [[Using badges|badges]] criteria is the ability to award badges based on previously earned badges.</p>
 
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             <h4>1. Bulk course creation tool</h4>
             <p>Create multiple courses efficiently using a single CSV file.  The functionality also extends to updating or deleting courses as well as importing content from another course.</p>
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             <h4>2. Streamlined course and category management</h4>
             <p>Easily sort, create, and delete course categories in a more intuitive interface with drag and drop functionality.</p>
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             <h4>Filter questions by tag</h4>
             <h4>3. Create additional name fields</h4>
             <p>This Moodle Users Association funded project means tags may be added and filtered directly in the [[Question bank]] and when [[Building Quiz|adding random questions]].</p>
             <p>Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.</p>
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             <h4>Quiz Essay questions</h4>
             <h4>4. Import and export role redefinitions</h4>
             <p>Specify accepted file types for the Quiz [[Essay question type]] and upload files when grading them</p>
             <p>Export and import role definitions as XML files.New roles may be based on existing data:</p>
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              <li>role archetype</li>
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              <li>existing role</li>
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              <li>role definition XML file</li>
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            <h4>5. Backup and restore large courses</h4>
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            <p>Backup and restore large courses Improved performance allows users to quickly backup large courses safely and if needed, easily restore the courses for use.</p>
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             <h4>GDPR features</h4>
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             <p>New Privacy and policies links help meet [[GDPR]] requirements.</p>
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             <h4> Simple Global Search</h4>
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             <p>A new, simple [[Global search]] feature is available without the need to install an external engine.</p>
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            <li>A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor </li>
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            <li>Easily access files from Microsoft Skydrive.</li>
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            <li>Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</li>
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            <li>Simplified username and password recovery</li>
[[File:LTIAdvantage.png|600px]]
            <li>Improved file management in TinyMCE editor</li>
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            <li>Better responsive design across devices</li>
             <h4>LTI Advantage 1.1 support</h4>
          </ul>
             <p>[[External tool]] settings now include support  for LTI Membership and AGS services..</p>
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             <h4>More badge criteria</h4>
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             <p>[[Managing badges|Award badges]] for user picture upload, cohort membership and previously awarded badges.</p>
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             <h4>1. A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor</h4>
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             <p>The improved TinyMCE editor can be resized to suit various browser widths, and features user-friendly icons and a collapsible toolbar menu.</p>
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             <h4>2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive</h4>
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             <p>Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.</p>
             <h4>Cohort themes</h4>
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             <p>Specify a theme for a [[Cohort sync|cohort]] for easy differentiation.</p>
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             <h4>New capabilities</h4>
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             <p>There are eleven new capabilities, including several relating to data, privacy and policies.</p>
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             <h4>3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</h4>
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             <p>Moodle 2.6 supports and displays the same date in multiple calendar system, including Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic and more, so you can select a preferred calendar system.</p>
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             <h4>4. Simplified username and password recovery</h4>
             <p>Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
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             <h4>5. Improve file management in TinyMCE editor </h4>
             <p>Add and manage previously embedded images or files to a page or a label in the TinyMCE text editor with the new Embedded files repository and TinyMCE Manage Embedded files plugin.</p>
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             <h4>6. Better responsive design </h4>
             <p> Moodle works and looks better across all devices, including desktops, tablets and phones.</p>
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==See also==


[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.6]]
 
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
 
[[Category:New features]]


* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.6
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.5]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.5]]
[[it:Nuove funzionalità in Moodle 3.5]]

Latest revision as of 16:24, 24 November 2018

Moodle 3.5 focuses on GDPR compliance and enhanced usability and accessiblity.

Read on for Moodle 3.5 highlights, or watch our Youtube playlist of 3.5 New features.

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 3.5 release notes.


For all users

  • StudentProfile.png

    Privacy and policies area in Profile

    Access site policies and make data requests from links in your Profile.

  • DashboardOverview.jpg

    Course images on the dashboard

    Images or coloured patterns brighten up course descriptions on the dashboard Course overview.

  • Bootstrap4.jpg

    Clearer icons, accessible fonts

    The use of Bootstrap 4 stable means enhanced appearance for users and better theming options for developers.

  • recordrtc.png

    Directly record sound and video

    Buttons in the Atto editor allow you to record directly into Moodle

  • ChoiceDisplay.jpg

    Choice results display

    Know in advance how the Choice results will display

  • 35MobileApp1.png

    Moodle from your Mobile!

    A new improved Moodle app.

For teachers

  • BulkEditSelfEnrolled.jpg

    More efficient user management

    Search, filter and bulk edit or delete self enrolled learners from the Participants and Enrolments screen.

  • AwardedBadgesBadges.jpg

    Award badges based on other badges

    Amongst new badges criteria is the ability to award badges based on previously earned badges.

  • QuestionTags.jpg

    Filter questions by tag

    This Moodle Users Association funded project means tags may be added and filtered directly in the Question bank and when adding random questions.

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    Quiz Essay questions

    Specify accepted file types for the Quiz Essay question type and upload files when grading them

For administrators

  • GDPRSection.png

    GDPR features

    New Privacy and policies links help meet GDPR requirements.

  • SimpleSearch.jpg

    Simple Global Search

    A new, simple Global search feature is available without the need to install an external engine.

  • LTIAdvantage.png

    LTI Advantage 1.1 support

    External tool settings now include support for LTI Membership and AGS services..

  • ProfilePictureBadge.jpg

    More badge criteria

    Award badges for user picture upload, cohort membership and previously awarded badges.

  • CohortThemes.jpg

    Cohort themes

    Specify a theme for a cohort for easy differentiation.

  • 35NewCapabilities.png

    New capabilities

    There are eleven new capabilities, including several relating to data, privacy and policies.

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