New features: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:08, 14 November 2019

Read on for Moodle 3.8 highlights, or watch our [ Youtube playlist of 3.8 New features.]

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 3.8 release notes.

H5P interactive content

Engage with interactive content in Pages, Labels, Books and more. See H5P
Emojis

Add emjois into Messages or from a button in the Atto editor

Course overview

Filter by custom course fields in the Course overview
New forum view

Select and test a new experimental nested discussion view from the forum preferences page

Forum grading

Asses forum discussions with Whole forum grading, using direct or advanced grading
Forum export and summary report

Export forum discussions and view a detailed summary report of student activity

Embed H5P content

Link to or upload existing H5P interactive content
Analytics bulk actions

Bulk select and send messages to students from the Insights report

Question bank

View question ID numbers and tags and benefit from a new Edit menu
Badges and groups

Filter by group when manually awarding badges

H5P admin settings

Monitor and configure H5P content with a new Display H5P filter and Manage H5P content page .
Analytics

Learning Analytics improvements include two new models and a graphical insights report.

Course overview

Configure Course overview layouts and filters and specify default course card colours.
Emoji support

Add an emoji icon to the Atto editor (and disable emojis if not supported from Advanced features).

Course backup

Choose to exclude course files from backup and benefit from a more logical automated backup ordering process. See Course backup
Course request in categories

Set up course request in categories only via a change in the course request capability

Duplicate user tours

Easily copy and adapt user tours with a new 'duplicate' button.
Experimental relative dates

Enable and test a new Relative dates feature from Experimental settings .

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