What’s new in Moodle 3.1Coming to a computer near YOU!December 12, 2016

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

NEW User Menu

Dashboard and the User Menu

Dashboard(replaces “My Home”)

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

AssessingQuizzes

Assignments

Grades

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

Quizzes – new question types

Drag and drop text

Select dropdown text

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)

TeachingForums

Choice

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

Managing users and unit sitesGroups

Restrict access

Single click section delete

Recycle bin

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

Groups – overview screen

The Groups Overview tab now shows students who are not in any 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

And many little improvements

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