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{{About Moodle}}
{{About Moodle}}
Moodle 3.1 comes packed with user-requested features such as full support for Competency Based Education, smoother assignment grading, easy retrieval of deleted files (thanks to the Moodle Users Association), improved tagging and course editing, greater usability for students and enhancements to several activities such as forum, workshop and lesson.
 
Read on for Moodle 3.1 highlights or watch the  Moodle 3.1 highlights screencasts on our YouTube page. (coming soon)
Read on for Moodle 3.7 highlights, or watch our [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDcsZhjYKz9JIwRRFRaW8hyk Youtube playlist of 3.7 New features.]


Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.1 release notes|Moodle 31 release notes]].
Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.7 release notes|Moodle 3.7 release notes]].
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===For teachers===


===For all users===
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            <h4>Forum: Inline editing</h4>
            <p>MUA-[[Using Forum|funded improvements to the Forum activity]] include adding and replying to discussions online.</p>
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             <h4>Competencies</h4>
             <h4>Forum: Star and sort</h4>
            <p> [[Competency based education]] is now fully supported in Moodle 3.1</p>
<p>Further [[Using Forum|Forum enhancements]] include the ability to star and sort discussions.</p>
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             <h4>Assignment grading</h4>
             <h4>Messaging: Improved interface</h4>
             <p> Grading [[Assignment]] submissions has got smoother with all elements on one screen and the ability to annotate over student submissions of different file types..</p>
             <p>[[Messaging]] enhancements include a link to a full page, 2 column view and the ability to mute conversations</p>
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            <h4>Messaging: Your own private space</h4>
            <p>You now have a personal space for notes, links and reminders as part of the Messaging drawer.</p>
       
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            <h4>Quiz: Clear my choice</h4>
            <p>Change your mind and remove your choice in a multiple choice quiz question.</p>
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             <h4>Download selected assignments</h4>
             <h4>Lesson: Add media in an essay</h4>
            <p>Select which assignments you want to download for offline viewing from a new option in the menu</p>
<p>Attach files such as images or record sound/video when answering an essay question</p>
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             <h4>Easily restore deleted content</h4>
             <h4>Book: Better printing</h4>
             <p>The new [[Recycle bin]], funded by the MUA, means you no longer need worry about losing accidentally deleted course items or courses, as it's now possible easily to restore them.</p>
             <p>Print books or chapters in books with a more attractive output.</p>
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            <h4>Competencies and Learning plans</h4>
            <p>Filter competencies by activities from the link in the navigation drawer and view related learning plans.</p>
       
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<h4>Pinned forum discussions</h4>
            <h4>Messaging: Delete conversations in groups</h4>
             <p>Important forum posts can now be pinned to the top of your list, making them more visible to your students. Read more: [[Forum]].</p>
             <p>Teachers may be given a capability to delete messages from users in group conversations. [[Messaging|See more]]</p>
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             <h4>Easily link to forum posts</h4>
             <h4>Forums: More control</h4>
             <p> The new permalink feature makes it easy to share useful forum posts. See [[Using Forum]].</p>
             <p>Teachers or others with permission can add a private reply in a forum and can manually lock discussions. See [[Using Forum]]</p>
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             <h4>Share activities between sites</h4>
             <h4>Badges: Competencies as a criterion</h4>
             <p>The [[External tool]] activity now allows you to share course activities and related grading between two Moodle sites.</p>
             <p>Badges may now be awarded based on competencies, (and competencies may be graded when grading activities) [[Managing badges |See more]]</p>
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             <h4>Tag course activities</h4>
             <h4>Course custom fields</h4>
             <p>Course activities and resources may now be tagged, making it simpler to find related content. </p>
             <p>If enabled by admin, custom fields in the course settings may be added to provide extra information and improve searching.</p>
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             <h4> Easier section editing</h4>
             <h4>Book: View hidden chapters</h4>
             <p>Change section titles without leaving the page, speeding up your course creation. [[Course homepage|Read more...]]</p>
             <p>Teachers can view hidden chapters in a book with the editing turned off . </p>
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             <h4>Search metalinked courses</h4>
             <h4>Assignment: Rotate submitted PDFs</h4>
             <p>Search for meta linked courses and add them together in one step. See [[Course meta link]] </p>
             <p>New icons allow you to change the orientation of submitted assignments for easier grading</p>
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             <h4>Restrict workshop file types</h4>
             <h4>Competencies: Filter by activity</h4>
             <p>When setting up a workshop, you can now specify the types of file you want students to submit or not </p>
             <p>When rating competencies, filter them by their linked activity or resource.</p>
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             <h4>Another feature</h4>
             <h4>Lesson: Include media when grading essays</h4>
             <p> Another feature </p>
             <p>The Lesson activity now allows for teachers and students to include media in Essay type questions.</p>
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             <h4>Competency frameworks</h4>
             <h4>New theme: Classic</h4>
             <p>Create competency frameworks for use throughout the site. (A plugin will also allow you to import from external sources.)</p>
             <p>Clean, More and the hidden Bootstrapbase are removed and replaced with the customisable [[Classic theme]].</p>
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             <h4>Learning plan templates </h4>
             <h4>Learning Analytics</h4>
             <p>Create learning plan templates and apply them to individuals or whole cohorts.</p>
             <p>Significant improvements to [[Analytics|Learning Analytics]] increase usability and efficiency.</p>
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             <h4>Global search</h4>
             <h4>Hide course lists</h4>
             <p>Let your your staff and students search the site by enabling [[Global search]] and installing Solr.</p>
             <p>New capabilities include  [[Capabilities/moodle/category:viewcourselist|moodle/category:viewcourselist]] which allows you to define who can see lists of courses in various categories. </p>
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             <h4>Assignment file conversion</h4>
             <h4>Messaging</h4>
             <p>Teachers can annotate directly on uploaded submissions of different file types, not just PDF if unoconv 07 is installed [[Upgrade key|Find our more...]]</p>
             <p>Messaging settings are in a new site administration category.</p>
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             <h4>Search the file system repository</h4>
             <h4>Improved support for Open Badges v 2.0</h4>
             <p>If you’ve enabled a [[File system repository]] on your server for FTP uploading, your teachers can now search the folders in that repository</p>
             <p>You can now connect to other Open Badges v 2.0 platforms and exchange badges with the Badgr.io platform. [[Badges settings|See more]]</p>
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             <h4>LTI 1.3  and Advantage</h4>
             <p>Make setting up a [[Lesson]] simpler for teachers by choosing the default and advanced settings.</p>
             <p>Moodle is one of the first platforms to implement this IMS Global standard.</p>
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             <h4>Bulk download files in  a zipped folder</h4>
             <h4>Asynchronous backups</h4>
             <p>When a folder resource contains many files, students can download them all in a zipped file.</p>
             <p>Perform large backups in the background while doing other tasks.</p>
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             <h4>Search everywhere!</h4>
             <h4>Test email</h4>
             <p>Search all courses you have access to and quickly find that important resource.Read more [[Global search]] </p>
             <p>A new setting allows you to easily test outgoing mail configuration.</p>
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[[Category:New features]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.7]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.7]]

Latest revision as of 10:17, 20 May 2019


Read on for Moodle 3.7 highlights, or watch our Youtube playlist of 3.7 New features.

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 3.7 release notes.


For all users

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    Messaging: Improved interface

    Messaging enhancements include a link to a full page, 2 column view and the ability to mute conversations

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    Messaging: Your own private space

    You now have a personal space for notes, links and reminders as part of the Messaging drawer.

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    Quiz: Clear my choice

    Change your mind and remove your choice in a multiple choice quiz question.

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    Lesson: Add media in an essay

    Attach files such as images or record sound/video when answering an essay question

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    Book: Better printing

    Print books or chapters in books with a more attractive output.

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    Competencies and Learning plans

    Filter competencies by activities from the link in the navigation drawer and view related learning plans.

For teachers

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    Messaging: Delete conversations in groups

    Teachers may be given a capability to delete messages from users in group conversations. See more

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    Forums: More control

    Teachers or others with permission can add a private reply in a forum and can manually lock discussions. See Using Forum

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    Badges: Competencies as a criterion

    Badges may now be awarded based on competencies, (and competencies may be graded when grading activities) See more

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    Course custom fields

    If enabled by admin, custom fields in the course settings may be added to provide extra information and improve searching.

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    Book: View hidden chapters

    Teachers can view hidden chapters in a book with the editing turned off .

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    Assignment: Rotate submitted PDFs

    New icons allow you to change the orientation of submitted assignments for easier grading

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    Competencies: Filter by activity

    When rating competencies, filter them by their linked activity or resource.

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    Lesson: Include media when grading essays

    The Lesson activity now allows for teachers and students to include media in Essay type questions.

For administrators

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    New theme: Classic

    Clean, More and the hidden Bootstrapbase are removed and replaced with the customisable Classic theme.

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    Learning Analytics

    Significant improvements to Learning Analytics increase usability and efficiency.

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    Hide course lists

    New capabilities include moodle/category:viewcourselist which allows you to define who can see lists of courses in various categories.

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    Messaging

    Messaging settings are in a new site administration category.

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    Improved support for Open Badges v 2.0

    You can now connect to other Open Badges v 2.0 platforms and exchange badges with the Badgr.io platform. See more

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    LTI 1.3 and Advantage

    Moodle is one of the first platforms to implement this IMS Global standard.

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    Asynchronous backups

    Perform large backups in the background while doing other tasks.

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    Test email

    A new setting allows you to easily test outgoing mail configuration.