Moodle 3.1
Moodle matures further
Moodle 3.1 features many incremental improvements:
Professional interface labelling and organisation Improving support for large classes Clearer, better navigation Greater consistency between modules
Moodle 3.1 highlights
Changes you will see when …
Using the Moodle 3.1 interfaceAssessingTeachingManaging users and unit sites
The Moodle 3.1 user interfaceThe Dashboard
User Menu and Preference
New look Profile
Atto improvements
File search
The NEW User Menu
■See all your current units■Access your Profile■Update your Moodle preferences■Appears on all pages(replaces links in Administration block)
The new look Profile page
Accessed from User menu (previously in Administration block)Long scrolling Profile page replaced by menu tables
Change the information about you visible to other Moodle users
Track your open browser sessions from your
current login
Manage your subscriptions to forums and individual
forum discussions
Make yourself invisible in the Online user block
Atto editor update
Drag and drop images in the Atto edit window
Optionally update detected Image Properties
Improved Atto autosave• Text saved every 60 seconds• Continue editing when you return• Select Cancel to clear the window and edit
new text
Search function in File picker
Search Server files in the File picker when adding attachmentsReuse files from any other Monash Moodle unit you are enrolled in including those from previous years and semesters
Search box appears when you select Server files
Determine search breadth by selecting the Category or
Unit
Quizzes – improved layout managementManage sequencing and presentation in Edit quiz window (was in Settings)
Group questions in sections with
headers
Control sequencing of questions in each
section independently
Opens the new “Add” menu
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Building_Quiz
Questions may be conditional on completed attempts of prior questionsRequires Quiz Settings:
– Question behaviour = Interactive with multiple tries or Immediate Feedback– Navigation = Free
Quizzes – conditional questions
Greyed out questions will become accessible when students have answered the questions before them
Users given feedback on answers to the preceding question in these cases
Indicates possible
conditional question
Moodle 2.7
Quizzes – Settings option improvements
Moodle 3.1
Question order managed in Edit Quiz not Quiz
settings
Option to let students redo a question during
quiz attempt
Moodle has four new quiz question types:
Quizzes – new question types
Drag and drop to a marker
Drag and drop on an image
Assignments – file attachments
Attach files to assignments
Provide detailed requirements, templates, samples and additional resources to students by attaching files to assignments
NEW Assignment file attachment window for lecturers to provide additional information to students
No more “default” group!
■Avoids mistaken individual submissions
■Reduces confusion for students and teachers
■ “Default group” is gone
Option to restrict submission to students allocated to groups.
Group assignments – limit to group members
Assignments – New grading interfacePDF annotation tools
Advance between users
Grade and comment on the same page
Select view option
Filter users:• Submitted• Not submitted• Needs grading
Return to unit
Return to submission page
New aggregation method “Natural weighting”
Uses allocated grade to weight contribution to unit total of assessment items
Easy to adjust weighting boxes
Default for new Grades categories
Replaces “Sum of grades” Other options available
Grades – Natural weighting aggregation method
Activity grades as set in the activity settings
Percentage contributions to the category total based on
original grade value
Click check boxes to edit specific items. Remaining items adjust accordingly.
Grades improvements – the interface
“Sticky” headers in Grader ReportConvenient vertical
scrolling in long student lists
Student rows scroll under the header row
NEW Setup menu Access to Categories and Items, Unit grade settings, Preferences
■Unique student identifier needs to match Student id, email or username.
Copy from a spreadsheet with matching headers and fields.Paste and preview before importing.
New Grade import method: Paste from spreadsheet
Set or adjust a Grade to pass
Set Pass grade in activities or update it in Grades
Grades improvements – grading options
Create a single point grading scaleIn Grades > Scales > Add new scaleFor more info see docs.moodle.org/31/en/Scales
ORIn Grades > Categories and items > Grade item Edit menu (“show more” selected)
In-line subscription to individual discussions, not entire forumIn-discussion subscription updates
Forums – subscribe to a single discussion
Subscribed to discussion. Click to unsubscribe
Unsubscribed to discussion. Click to subscribe
Single step post to multiple groupsIn Forum Settings > Common Module settings
– Groups = Separate OR Visible groups– Grouping = selected
Forum – post to all groups
In Discussion settings check Post
to all groups
Creates a separate thread for each group to respond to
Filter groups
Forum – Pinned posts and permalinks
If you click permalink under a forum post (1), the post is highlighted (2) and you will have a unique web address (3) which you can then copy and paste to use elsewhere.
Teachers can now “pin” a post so that it will always appear at the top of a discussion forum.
Navigation icons direct reader to next discussion
Forum navigation
Next discussion
Posts in this discussion
Option for users to respond with more than one selection
Choice - choose more than one
Check boxes appear for multiple selections
Use an existing group to limit group members in autocreate groups
Restrict group membership to specific Allocate+ or Callista groups
Groups – limit group membership with a group
Restrict access using groups
Restrict access based on group membership –not only a grouping.
Specify if a specific group may or may not access activities and resources.
Moodle 2.7
Moodle 3.1
Recycle Bin
Deleted items are stored for 14 days in the Recycle Bin, and can be restored with a click.
Delete a section and all of its contents in a single stepWith no orphan items remaining
Single click section delete
WARNING: This step cannot be undone. All activities and resources in the section are deleted
NEW delete feature
Hundreds of small improvements
Mail now – actually mails NOW Select from one of three navigation styles in a Book Glossary searches more accurate Many incremental improvements to Lesson, Database
When?
Moodle will be upgraded over the weekend of 9-12 December 2016Unavailable 11:00pm 9/12 to 8:00am 12/12
Find out more about your new Moodle
How will it impact on me?
On December 12: Users will see interface differences.Files and inputs will be unaffectedNew features will be available.
And if I need more information or help?New features and using Moodle 3.1 see:
Moodle learning topicsTechnical problems:
eSolutions Service Desk