New features
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.
For all users
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H5P interactive content
Engage with interactive content in Pages, Labels, Books and more. See H5P
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Emojis
Add emjois into Messages or from a button in the Atto editor
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Course overview
Filter by custom course fields in the Course overview
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New forum view
Select and test a new experimental nested discussion view from the forum preferences page
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Calendar filters
Filter your calendar by month, day or upcoming event.
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Session timeout
Stay on target with a Session timeout alert
For teachers
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Forum grading
Asses forum discussions with Whole forum grading, using direct or advanced grading
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Forum export and summary report
Export forum discussions and view a detailed summary report of student activity
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Embed H5P content
Link to or upload existing H5P interactive content
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Analytics bulk actions
Bulk select and send messages to students from the Insights report
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Question bank
View question ID numbers and tags and benefit from a new Edit menu
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Badges and groups
Filter by group when manually awarding badges
For administrators
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H5P admin settings
Monitor and configure H5P content with a new Display H5P filter and Manage H5P content page .
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Analytics
Learning Analytics improvements include two new models and a graphical insights report.
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Course overview
Configure Course overview layouts and filters and specify default course card colours.
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Emoji support
Add an emoji icon to the Atto editor (and disable emojis if not supported from Advanced features).
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Course backup
Choose to exclude course files from backup and benefit from a more logical automated backup ordering process. See Course backup
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Course request in categories
Set up course request in categories only via a change in the course request capability
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Duplicate user tours
Easily copy and adapt user tours with a new 'duplicate' button.
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Experimental relative dates
Enable and test a new Relative dates feature from Experimental settings .
