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Moodle 2.6 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights a few of the most interesting.


Full details of the release, with technical information, can be found in the [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.6_release_notes Moodle 2.6 Release notes.]
Read on for Moodle 3.8 highlights, or watch our [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDdJu-ct9wJQTTS3owR-lELq Youtube playlist of 3.8 New features.]


Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.8 release notes|Moodle 3.8 release notes]].
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===For all users===
 
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=== For teachers ===
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[[File:forteachers.png|link=|300px]]
[[File:H5PStudentView.png|600px]]
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             <h4>H5P interactive content</h4>
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             <p>Engage with interactive content in Pages, Labels, Books and more. See [[H5P]]</p>
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        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Improved grading features</div>
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          <li>Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within browser.</li>
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          <li>Conveniently allocate student assignments to different markers, and control when marks are released to individual students.</li>
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          <li>Certainty-based marking in Quizzes now provides improved feedback for learners.</li>
[[File:StudentForumGrading.png|600px]]
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             <h4>Forum grading</h4>
        <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Dynamic, streamlined, course management</div>
<p>Submit forum posts for assessment and view your grades</p>
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          <li>Quickly edit course activities and resources across all devices.</li>
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          <li>Easily add a Single activity course format.</li>
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             <h4>1. Annotate uploaded PDF files in browser</h4>
             <p>Provide feedback directly within PDF file submissions by using a variety of annotating tools available, including stamps and phrases from a comment bank.</p>
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[[File:MarkingWorkflow.png|600px]]
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            <h4>2. Enhanced marking workflow and allocation</h4>
            <p>Control when marks are released for viewing, for example, when they have been reviewed and moderated. Individual markers can also be allocated assignments and these allocations will show up clearly in the gradebook.</p>
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[[File:Certaintybased-Marking.png|600px]]
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            <h4>3. Enhanced feedback in Certainty-based marking</h4>
            <p>Quizzes using Certainty-based marking now provide better feedback for learners.</p>
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[[File:Edit-menu.png|600px]]
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             <h4>4. Easily edit course activities and resources</h4>
            <p>Editing tools have been grouped together to in a simple dropdown menu for easy accessibility across desktop and mobile devices.</p>
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            <h4>5. Add a Single activity course format</h4>
            <p>Simply select and add any one activity as a standard course format which is displayed directed on the course page (This feature supersedes the old SCORM course format).</p>
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=== For administrators and managers ===
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            <h4>Course overview</h4>
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            <p>Filter by custom course fields in the [[Course overview]]</p>
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            <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Enhanced platform management</div>
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              <li>Create and manage bulk courses efficiently</li>
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              <li>Simpler course and category management</li>
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              <li>Create additional name fields </li>
[[File:DocsForumExperimentalNestedView.png|600px]]
              <li>Conveniently import and export role definition using XML file</li>
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              <li>Plugin to manage embedded files in TinyMCE editor</li>
             <h4>New forum view</h4>
              <li>Restoring of very large courses possible</li>
            <p>Select and test a new experimental nested discussion view from the forum preferences page</p>
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[[File:create-bulk-course.png|600px]]
[[File:CalendarFilter.png|600px]]
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             <h4>1. Bulk course creation tool</h4>
             <h4>Calendar filters</h4>
             <p>Create multiple courses efficiently using a single CSV file.  The functionality also extends to updating or deleting courses as well as importing content from another course.</p>
             <p>Filter your calendar by month, day or upcoming event.</p>
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[[File:streamlined-category-mgmt.png|600px]]
[[File:MessagingEmoji.png|600px]]
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             <h4>2. Streamlined course and category management</h4>
             <h4>Emojis</h4>
            <p>Easily sort, create, and delete course categories in a more intuitive interface with drag and drop functionality.</p>
<p>Add emojis  into [[Messages]] or from a button in the [[Atto editor]]</p>
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             <h4>3. Create Additional name fields</h4>
             <h4>Clearer reminders</h4>
             <p>Add and customise additional name fields to flexibly display user names in Chinese characters, local phonetic system or Romanization.</p>
             <p>Receive and rate reminders about your activities.</p>
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[[File:role-def.png|600px]]
[[File:Timeout.png|600px]]
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             <h4>4. Import and export role redefinitions</h4>
             <h4>Session timeout</h4>
            <p>Export and import role definitions as XML files.New roles may be based on existing data:</p>
<p>Stay on target with a Session timeout alert</p>
            <ul>
           </div>
              <li>role archetype</li>
         </div>
              <li>existing role</li>
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              <li>role definition XML file</li>
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===For teachers===
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[[File:large-course-backup-restore.png|600px]]
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            <h4>6. Backup and restore large courses</h4>
            <p>Backup and restore large courses Improved performance allows users to quickly backup large courses safely and if needed, easily restore the courses for use.</p>
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=== For all users ===
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[[File:forusers.png|link=|300px]]
[[File:DocsForumGrading1.png|600px]]
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       </div>
            <h4>Forum grading </h4>
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            <p>Assess forum discussions with [[Using Forum|Whole forum grading]], using direct or advanced grading</p>
         <div style="color: #555;">
          </div>
           <div style="padding:0 0 0.17em; font-size: 17.5px; margin: 10px 0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility">Experience a better learning platform</div>
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             <li>A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor </li>
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             <li>Easily access files from Microsoft Skydrive.</li>
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            <li>Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</li>
[[File:ForumSummaryReport.png|600px]]
            <li>Simplified username and password recovery</li>
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           </ul>
             <h4>Forum export and summary report</h4>
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             <p>Export forum discussions and view a detailed summary report of student activity</p>
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[[File:H5PAttoButtonEn.png|600px]]
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             <h4>Embed H5P content</h4>
             <h4>1. A more user-friendly TinyMCE editor</h4>
             <p>Link to or upload existing [[H5P]] interactive content</p>
             <p>The improved TinyMCE editor can be resized to suit various browser widths, and features user-friendly icons and a collapsible toolbar menu.</p>
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[[File:InsightsBulkActions.png|600px]]
[[File:moodle-skydrive.png|600px]]
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             <h4>Analytics bulk actions</h4>
             <h4>2. Access files from Microsoft Skydrive</h4>
             <p>Bulk select and send messages to students from the Insights report</p>
             <p>Users can now choose to retrieve files from their Skydrive account for use in their Moodle courses.</p>
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[[File:QbankIDTags.png|600px]]
[[File:multiple-calendar-support.png|600px]]
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             <h4>Question bank</h4>
             <h4>3. Improved calendar handling with multiple calendar support</h4>
             <p>View question ID numbers and tags and benefit from a new Edit menu </p>
             <p>Moodle 2.6 supports and displays the same date in multiple calendar system, including Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic and more, so you can select a preferred calendar system.</p>
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[[File:GroupBadges.png|600px]]
[[File:password-recovery.|600px]]
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             <h4>Badges and groups</h4>
             <h4>4. Simplified username and password recovery</h4>
             <p>Filter  by group when manually awarding badges</p>
             <p>Quickly retrieve username or reset password in a simpler, more user-friendly process.</p>
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[[File:manage-embedded-files.png|600px]]
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            <h4>5. Easily manage previously embedded files in TinyMCE text editor </h4>
            <p>Add and manage images or files previously embedded in the TinyMCE text editor with the new Embedded files repository and TinyMCE Manage Embedded files plugin.</p>
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===For administrators===
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[[File:38 newmodels.png|600px]]
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            <h4>Analytics insights</h4>
            <p>Make use of two new models [[Analytics|Learning Analytics]] relating to course access and specify courses or categories for models.</p>
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[[File:DocsInsightReport.png|600px]]
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            <h4>Analytics Insights report</h4>
            <p> View a graphical [[Analytics|Learning Analytics]] improvements a graphical Insights report.</p>
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            <h4>H5P management</h4>
            <p>Monitor and configure H5P content with a new [[Display H5P filter]] and Manage H5P content page  </p>
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[[File:AttoEmojiPickerStudent.png|600px]]
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            <h4> Emoji settings</h4>
            <p>Add an emoji button to the [[Atto editor]] or disable emojis from [[Advanced features]] if unsupported</p>
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==See also==
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[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 2.6]]
[[File:User Management.png|600px]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
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            <h4>User management</h4>
            <p>Configure the default user filter from a new admin page</p>
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            <h4>Upload users improvements</h4>
            <p>View an example csv file and specify the enrol start date</p>
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[[File:CourseBackupAdmin.png|600px]]
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            <h4>Course backup</h4>
            <p>Choose to exclude course files from backup and benefit from a more logical automated backup ordering process. See [[Course backup]]</p>
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[[File:CourseOverviewSettings.png|600px]]
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            <h4>Course overview</h4>
            <p>Configure [[Course overview]] layouts and filters and specify default course card colours</p>
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            <h4>Duplicate user tours</h4>
            <p>Easily copy and adapt user tours with a new 'duplicate' button.</p>
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[[File:ExperimentalSettings.png|600px]]
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            <h4>Experimental course relative dates</h4>
            <p>Have assignment due dates displayed relative to the user's start date in the course with [[Course relative dates]].</p>
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[[Category:New features]]


* [[:Category:New features|Category:New features]] - list of pages documenting new features in Moodle 2.6
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
[[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.7]]
[[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.8]]

Latest revision as of 10:07, 6 October 2020


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

  • StudentForumGrading.png

    Forum grading

    Submit forum posts for assessment and view your grades

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    Course overview

    Filter by custom course fields in the Course overview

  • DocsForumExperimentalNestedView.png

    New forum view

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

  • CalendarFilter.png

    Calendar filters

    Filter your calendar by month, day or upcoming event.

  • MessagingEmoji.png

    Emojis

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

  • StudentNotificationsDocs.png

    Clearer reminders

    Receive and rate reminders about your activities.

  • Timeout.png

    Session timeout

    Stay on target with a Session timeout alert

For teachers

  • DocsForumGrading1.png

    Forum grading

    Assess forum discussions with Whole forum grading, using direct or advanced grading

  • ForumSummaryReport.png

    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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    Analytics insights

    Make use of two new models Learning Analytics relating to course access and specify courses or categories for models.

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    Analytics Insights report

    View a graphical Learning Analytics improvements a graphical Insights report.

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    User management

    Configure the default user filter from a new admin page

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    Upload users improvements

    View an example csv file and specify the enrol start date

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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 overview

      Configure Course overview layouts and filters and specify default course card colours


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      Duplicate user tours

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

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      Experimental course relative dates

      Have assignment due dates displayed relative to the user's start date in the course with Course relative dates.

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