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.