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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New forum view
Select and test a new experimental nested discussion view from the forum preferences page
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Notifications
Receive and rate clearer notifications about upcoming activities.
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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
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Competencies: Filter by activity
When rating competencies, filter them by their linked activity or resource.
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Lesson: Include media when grading essays
The Lesson activity now allows for teachers and students to include media in Essay type questions.
For administrators
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New theme: Classic
Clean, More and the hidden Bootstrapbase are removed and replaced with the customisable Classic theme.
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Learning Analytics
Significant improvements to Learning Analytics increase usability and efficiency.
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Hide course lists
New capabilities include moodle/category:viewcourselist which allows you to define who can see lists of courses in various categories.
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Messaging
Messaging settings are in a new site administration category.
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Improved support for Open Badges v 2.0
You can now connect to other Open Badges v 2.0 platforms and exchange badges with the Badgr.io platform. See more
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LTI 1.3 and Advantage
Moodle is one of the first platforms to implement this IMS Global standard.
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Asynchronous backups
Perform large backups in the background while doing other tasks.
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Test email
A new setting allows you to easily test outgoing mail configuration.