New for teachers

If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.6

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  Improved course overview

  Sort, star, hide and display courses more efficiently thanks to the welcome Course overview improvements on your dashboard.

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  Useful new dashboard blocks

  Keep up to date with the Timeline block, the Starred courses block, the Recently accessed courses block and the Recently accessed items block, all available for the dashboard.

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  Message your groups

  Enable group messaging when setting up groups and from the new messaging interface, start group conversations.

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  More information on your badges

  Support for Open Badges v2.0 spec allows you to add more details when awarding badges.

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  Record assignment feedback

  Media and other file uploads are now permitted when grading assignments, meaning teachers can record their feedback and/or include supporting images or other files.

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  Quiz improvements

  The Drag and drop markers question type is easier to edit, and thanks to the MUA, the Quiz statistics report has improved usability.

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  Easily find duplicated items

  As with courses, duplicated resources are now appended with 'copy' so you can easily distinguish between the original and copy.

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  Hide page last modifed dates

  A new option in the Page resource allows you to choose to display or hide the date it was last updated..

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  Clearer privacy links in your profile

  Easily see from your profile how to contact the PO, request data or account deletion and view a data retention summary page

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  Hide yourself in the online users block

  Monitor courses without being seen by clicking the 'eye' against your name in the Online users block.