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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.  
Moodle 3.5 focuses on GDPR compliance and enhanced usability and accessiblity.
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 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 [[:dev:Moodle 3.3 release notes|Moodle 3.3 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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             <h4>Better Office integration</h4>
             <h4>Privacy and policies area in Profile</h4>
             <p>Log in, easily access documents from Microsoft Office and the Google G-Suite and [[Linked Logins|link your accounts.]].</p>
             <p>Access site policies and make data requests from links in your [[Profile]].</p>
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             <h4>Improved dashboard</h4>
             <h4>Course images on the 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>
<p>Images or coloured patterns brighten up course descriptions on the dashboard [[Course overview]].</p>
       
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             <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
             <h4>Clearer icons, accessible fonts</h4>
             <p>This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.</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>Emoji support</h4>
             <h4>Directly record sound and video</h4>
             <p>Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered</p>
             <p>Buttons in the [[Atto editor]] allow you to record directly into Moodle</p>
        
        
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             <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
             <h4>Choice results display</h4>
             <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
             <p>Know in advance how the Choice results will display</p>
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             <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
             <h4>Moodle from your Mobile!</h4>
             <p> Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the [[Assignment settings|assignment set up.]]</p>
             <p>A new improved  [[Moodle Mobile app|Moodle app]].</p>
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             <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
             <h4>More efficient user management</h4>
             <p>Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. [[Assignment settings|Read more...]]</p>
             <p>Search, filter and bulk edit or delete self enrolled learners from the [[Participants|Participants and Enrolments screen]].</p>
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             <h4>Better activity completion management</h4>
             <h4>Award badges based on other badges</h4>
             <p>Bulk edit and update [[Activity completion|activity completion settings]] in your courses.</p>
             <p>Amongst new [[Using badges|badges]] criteria is the ability to award badges based on previously earned badges.</p>
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<h4>Drag and drop media</h4>
            <h4>Filter questions by tag</h4>
             <p>Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.</p>
             <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>
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            <h4>'Stealth' activities - available but not shown</h4>
            <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>More tag areas</h4>
             <h4>Quiz Essay questions</h4>
             <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
             <p>Specify accepted file types for the Quiz [[Essay question type]] and upload files when grading them</p>
         
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             <h4> OAuth2 authentication</h4>
             <h4>GDPR features</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>
             <p>New Privacy and policies links help meet [[GDPR]] requirements.</p>
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             <h4> Document file converters</h4>
             <h4> Simple Global Search</h4>
             <p>Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. [[Document converters|Read more...]]</p>
             <p>A new, simple [[Global search]] feature is available without the need to install an external engine.</p>
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             <h4>Improved MySQL support</h4>
             <h4>LTI Advantage 1.1 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>
             <p>[[External tool]] settings now include support  for LTI Membership and AGS services..</p>
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             <h4> New "Stealth" mode setting</h4>
             <h4>More badge criteria</h4>
             <p> A new admin setting extends the functionality to link to activities without showing them on the course page. See [[Stealth activities]].</p>
             <p>[[Managing badges|Award badges]] for user picture upload, cohort membership and previously awarded badges.</p>
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             <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
             <h4>Cohort themes</h4>
             <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-local_anonymise anonymise local  plugin.]
             <p>Specify a theme for a [[Cohort sync|cohort]] for easy differentiation.</p>
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            <h4>New capabilities</h4>
            <p>There are eleven new capabilities, including several relating to data, privacy and policies.</p>
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[[Category:New features]]
[[Category:New features]]


  [[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
  [[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.3]]
  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.5]]
  [[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.3]]
  [[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

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    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.

  • EssayUpload.png

    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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