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{{About Moodle}}
{{About Moodle}}
Moodle 3.3 ...
 
Read on for Moodle 3.3 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.3 highlights screencasts on our YouTube page.
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 3.3 release notes|Moodle 3.3 release notes]].
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 teachers===


===For all users===
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            <h4>H5P interactive content</h4>
            <p>Engage with interactive content in Pages, Labels, Books and more. See [[H5P]]</p>
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             <h4>Better navigation with Boost</h4>
             <h4>Forum grading</h4>
            <p> A new responsive theme[[Boost theme|Boost]] improves navigation within and between courses. </p>
<p>Submit forum posts for assessment and view your grades</p>
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             <h4>Easier editing with Boost</h4>
             <h4>Course overview</h4>
             <p> Gear menus in the new Boost theme enhance the editing experience</p>
             <p>Filter by custom course fields in the [[Course overview]]</p>
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            <h4>New forum view</h4>
            <p>Select and test a new experimental nested discussion view from the forum preferences page</p>
       
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             <h4>Media player improvements</h4>
             <h4>Calendar filters</h4>
             <p>Your favourite video types display across devices and browsers with subtitle and caption support...</p>
             <p>Filter your calendar by month, day or upcoming event.</p>
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            <h4>Emojis</h4>
<p>Add emojis  into [[Messages]] or from a button in the [[Atto editor]]</p>
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             <h4>Interactive report charts</h4>
             <h4>Clearer reminders</h4>
             <p>Interactive and responsive charts now show reports dynamically to course participants.</p>
             <p>Receive and rate reminders about your activities.</p>
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            <h4>Session timeout</h4>
<p>Stay on target with a Session timeout alert</p>
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<h4>Discussion locking</h4>
            <h4>Forum grading </h4>
             <p>Easily close forum discussions after a period of inactivity.</p>
             <p>Assess forum discussions with [[Using Forum|Whole forum grading]], using direct or advanced grading</p>
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             <h4>Assignment overrides</h4>
             <h4>Forum export and summary report</h4>
             <p>Easily change assignment deadlines for individuals or groups. [[Using Assignment|Read more...]] </p>
             <p>Export forum discussions and view a detailed summary report of student activity</p>
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             <h4>Workshop portfolio export</h4>
             <h4>Embed H5P content</h4>
             <p>Workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to an external portfolio by students and teachers. See [[Workshop settings]].</p>
             <p>Link to or upload existing [[H5P]] interactive content</p>
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             <h4>Select for students in Choice</h4>
             <h4>Analytics bulk actions</h4>
             <p>Make a selection on behalf of students in the Choice activity.</p>
             <p>Bulk select and send messages to students from the Insights report</p>
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             <h4>Negative scores for rubrics</h4>
             <h4>Question bank</h4>
             <p>The [[Rubrics]] grade calculation has been improved and now allows for negative scores.</p>
             <p>View question ID numbers and tags and benefit from a new Edit menu </p>
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            <h4>Badges and groups</h4>
            <p>Filter  by group when manually awarding badges</p>
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             <h4> New customisable Boost theme</h4>
             <h4>Analytics insights</h4>
             <p>A new, customisable core theme with a fresh look enhances navigation and usability. </p>
             <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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             <h4>User tours </h4>
             <h4>Analytics Insights report</h4>
             <p>This new feature lets you take your users, step-by-step, around Moodle. [[User tours|Read more...]].</p>
             <p> View a graphical [[Analytics|Learning Analytics]] improvements a graphical Insights report.</p>
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             <h4>Competency frameworks import and export</h4>
             <h4>H5P management</h4>
             <p>[[Competency frameworks]] may now be imported, exported and easily shared between sites. </p>
             <p>Monitor and configure H5P content with a new [[Display H5P filter]] and Manage H5P content page  </p>
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             <h4>New media player plugins</h4>
             <h4> Emoji settings</h4>
             <p>Video and audio are more accessible, usable and customisable with a new default player, [[VideoJS player]], and increased pluggable support. </p>
             <p>Add an emoji button to the [[Atto editor]] or disable emojis from [[Advanced features]] if unsupported</p>
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             <h4> LTI 2 compliance</h4>
             <h4>User management</h4>
             <p>Cartridges, Content items and compliance with LTI 2 providers mean sharing between sites and courses is much easier.</p>
             <p>Configure the default user filter from a new admin page</p>
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             <h4>Course end dates </h4>
            <h4>Upload users improvements</h4>
             <p>Set end dates as well as start dates for courses.</p>
            <p>View an example csv file and specify the enrol start date</p>
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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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            <h4>Course overview</h4>
            <p>Configure [[Course overview]] layouts and filters and specify default course card colours</p>
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             <h4>User-friendly messaging and alerts</h4>
             <h4>Duplicate user tours</h4>
             <p>Quickly access [[Messaging|messages]] and [[Notifications|notifications]] wherever you are on the site .</p>
             <p>Easily copy and adapt user tours with a new 'duplicate' button.</p>
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             <h4>Mobile app out of the box</h4>
             <h4>Experimental course relative dates</h4>
             <p>More features than ever now work directly from the [[Moodle Mobile|Moodle Mobile app]].</p>
             <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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  [[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
  [[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.2]]
  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.7]]
  [[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.2]]
  [[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

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    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

  • H5PAttoButtonEn.png

    Embed H5P content

    Link to or upload existing H5P interactive content

  • InsightsBulkActions.png

    Analytics bulk actions

    Bulk select and send messages to students from the Insights report

  • QbankIDTags.png

    Question bank

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

  • GroupBadges.png

    Badges and groups

    Filter by group when manually awarding badges

For administrators

  • 38 newmodels.png

    Analytics insights

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

  • DocsInsightReport.png

    Analytics Insights report

    View a graphical Learning Analytics improvements a graphical Insights report.

  • User Management.png

    User management

    Configure the default user filter from a new admin page

  • 38 examplecsv.png

    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

    • CourseOverviewSettings.png

      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.