New for teachers
If you're a teacher in Moodle, then this page will tell you about the major changes affecting you in Moodle 3.1
Assessing and Progress tracking
With Competency based education, you can link competencies to a learning plan and review students' progress towards specific achievements.
Assignment grading
Grade assignments more efficiently with everything on one screen and the ability (if enabled by admin) to annotate any uploaded file type.
Course editing
Streamlined title editing: Section titles can now be changed directly from the course page:
Course management
Easily retrieve deleted content A new Recycle bin available in the course administration block once an item has been deleted allows you to quickly restore that resource or activity.(It will also restore deleted courses for those with relevant permissions.)
Activity tagging: A new setting when adding activities and resources lets you tag them so they may be searched for by others in Site pages > Tags.
Search everywhere: If enabled by your administrator, the Global search feature lets you search courses you have access to, from a box next to the user menu or from the Global Search block
Activities
Forum improvements
It's now possible to make important forum posts 'sticky' , by pinning them to the top of your list:
And the new 'Permalink' feature makes it easy to share direct links to interesting individual posts:
Workshop
You can specify which files students may, or may not, upload for their peer assessment task.