Teaching & Learning ForumBy Moodlerooms

Solutions Update

Lewis Carr

Nathan Cobb

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Moodle 2.7 – What teachers may have missed

General Teaching and Learning ImprovementsThe new Atto text editor.“Java-less” mathematics equation editor. Conditional Release.Gradebook.

Assignment Enhancements

How 2.7 improves teaching workflows through word limits, filtering and notifications.

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Meet Atto – Your new Moodle text editor

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Why Atto?

• Faster to load

• Improved Accessibility

• Better drag ‘n’ drop image support

• Support for beautiful mathematic equations without Java – now supports phones and tablets.

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How drastic is the change?

This is Atto, in 2.7

This is TinyMCE, 2.6 and below

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Atto – Equation Editor

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Conditional ReleaseBuilding better learning paths

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Enhanced Conditional Release

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Enhanced Conditional Release

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Enhanced Conditional Release

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Enhanced Conditional Release - logic

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Enhanced Conditional Release – manage restrictions

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An example scenario – learner pathways

• Jill and Ben are in the same class. But they see different content, and not because they are in different groups.

• This is because John has unlocked additional content because his grades are higher than Jill’s.

• Jill has been performing badly on key skills, so an entire topic section was unlocked for her.

• John however has dyslexia, this was identified by a profile field in his Moodle account (a simple short digit code).

• John’s teacher has created some content just for John and others with dyslexia.

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Gradebook Enhancements

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Gradebook Enhancements – Top scrollbar

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Gradebook Enhancements – Filter by name

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Assignment Enhancements

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Assignment Enhancements – Online Text Word Limit

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Assignment Enhancements – Online Text word limit reached

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Assignment Enhancements – Online Text inline comments

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Assignment Enhancements – Filtering Submissions

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Assignment Enhancements – Notify Students

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Teachers can edit submissions or delete them!

• How many times have your students sent a submission for marking but uploaded the wrong file?

• Or attempted the wrong assignment?

• Or simply made a mess of the entire process?

In the past, only admins could edit or delete the submission. Now, teachers can finally do it.

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Moodle 2.8

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Gradebook Enhancements - Usability

The main focus in 2.8 has been around the gradebook.

With an improved user interface based upon community workshops, surveys and bug reports.

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Gradebook Enhancements – Single View

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Gradebook Enhancements – Single View

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Gradebook Enhancements – Single View

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Gradebook Enhancements – Grade History

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Assignment Enhancements – Additional Files

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Assignment Enhancements – Choose Notifications

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Quiz Enhancements – Old interface 2.7

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Quiz Enhancements – New interface 2.8

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Quiz Enhancements – New interface 2.8

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Quiz Enhancements – Question Bank

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Students can email files to their private file area

Student captures evidence on mobile

Student emails attachment to Moodle private files

Once in Moodle, student uses attachment as assignment submission

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Reply to forums via email (with attachments)

Student replies to forum via email

Can use attachments

Forum thread continues via email or via Moodle

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How long until we get 2.8?

56 Days

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July 2015 Moodlerooms release

• Production release July 8th 2015

• Sandbox release approx first week of June

• Client Webinar approx first week of June

• All client sites will be automatically upgraded on the release date

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Moodle and Collaborate 2015 Integrations

• Collaborate 2015 integration– Real time virtual conversations within the browser– Session scheduling– Recording view– Attendance grading

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Mahara 1.10

• New Assignment plugin that supports “collections”

• Allow anonymous pages

• Allow feedback/comments on notes

• Display submitted pages and/or collections

• Drag and drop sort order or pages and collections

• Social Media Block

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Office 365 Integration

• Single Sign On from Office 365

• Repository for OneDrive (file picker)

• Support for OneNote Assignment Submissions

• Annotate directly on OneNote Submissions

• Show OneNote feedback link in grading table

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Rest of 2015

• Moodle 2.9 and Mahara 1.11– Learning paths

• Hosting improvements– Decreased page load speeds– Decreased backup file storage usage– Migration to object storage

• Simplified and enhanced reporting

• Report subscriptions

• Advanced uses for Collaborate 2015

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Questions.