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New features

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Moodle 2.9 brings together features and enhancements developed by our core team and community contributors. These include: streamlined navigation, useful improvements to activities such as Lesson and Quiz, along with new admin settings which refine the course management process.

Read on for Moodle 2.9 highlights, or watch the screencasts on the official Moodle HQ YouTube page

Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the Moodle 2.9 release notes.

For all users

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    My home is now Dashboard

    My home has been renamed to Dashboard and where courses have assignments, these are only displayed when they need attention from the teacher (grading) or the student (submitting/resubmitting). For more details, see Dashboard.

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    New My grades page

    The user menu now includes a new My grades page which display grades from all courses users are students in. Courses users are teaching in are also displayed.


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    New My profile page

    Accessed from the user menu, the new My Profile page provides quick links to blog entries, forum post, badges and, depending on the user’s privileges, a variety of reports including a new browser sessions page.

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    Browser sessions page

    A new page displays your current browser sessions allowing you to check if you forgot to log off on a different computer (and log off now) and reassure yourself nobody is using your account. Read more....

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    Send messages from the page you're working on

    A pop up box will appear when messaging users, meaning you can send messages without being sent away from the page you are currently viewing. Find out more hereI

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    Search server files

    Users with permissions to access server files can now use a search facility, allowing for easy location of files in other courses they have access to.

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    Drag and drop into Atto.

    It's now possible to drag and drop images directly into the Atto editor, for example when editing a course summary or when posting in a forum..

Activity enhancements

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    Lesson

    Along with enhancements such as group support, user and group overrides better logging and improved essay grading interface, the Lesson activity now boasts a new completion condition “Require time spent”.

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    Quiz

    Quizzes can now have section headings and questions can be shuffled on different pages. It is now possible to require that a particular question be answered before a subsequent one may be accessed, and quizzes along with responses and feedback will now display attractively when printed from the browser.

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    Forum

    If your forum has groups, you only need post once to all of them and Moodle will ensure members of each group can reply

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    Glossary

    You can now export and import glossary entries with embedded images and attached files.

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    Activity descriptions

    A new site setting allows the administrator to decide whether to force descriptions or not. This applies to activities such as quizzes and assignments as well as resources such as Page, Folder and File.

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    Grade to pass

    If you are using graded activities it is now possible to set a passing grade during the activity set up process instead of having to edit the gradebook directly.

Course editing and enrolment

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    Delete course sections

    A new option in each course section allows you to completely remove that section and its content, regardless of where the section is located on your course page,

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    Faster addition of cohorts and metalinked courses

    If you need to enrol a number of cohorts or multiple courses with the course metalink method, you can do this much more quickly now with a new "Add method and create another" button, meaning you can repeat the process without having to return to the enrolment screen and start again.

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    Email replies to forum posts

    For added convenience, you can now reply to forum posts by email, and even include attachments! Read more...

New options for Quiz, Choice and Assignment

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    Improved Quiz edit screen and completion settings

    The Edit quiz page has been rewritten for improved accessibility, making it much easier to add and manage questions. See Building Quiz. You can also set completion conditions based on a passing grade or when all available attempts have been used up.

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    More than one choice with Choice

    You can now allow users to select more than one choice when creating a Choice. Read more.

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    Additional files for assignments

    Teachers can now attach files for students when setting up assignments, such as example submissions or answer templates. See Assignment settings.

Analytics and Reporting

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    Stay in touch by subscribing to events

    Event monitoring allows teachers, managers and admins to create and subscribe to events

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    New events

    More detailed logging and events have been added, particularly in relation to grades.

Cohorts

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    Cohorts can be created on upload

    Admins and managers can create cohorts using a csv file either, either from the Cohorts screen or when uploading users. Teachers can now by default enrol cohorts visible to them. Read more....

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    A new 'All Cohorts' screen for admins

    Administrators can now have a clear overview of all system and category cohorts from the new All cohorts screen. See Cohorts.

See also