Enhancements
What's new in LMS 3.1?
The recent update of our LMS, Moodle to version 3.1, sees some upgrades and minor changes to interface, functionality, and tools.
| Feature | Overview | Useful Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Recycle Bin | Provides the opportunity to retrieve deleted activities and resources within a specified time. | Recycle Bin |
| Quiz Type - Drag and drop into text | A drag and drop question type where missing words have to be dragged into gaps in a paragraph of text. | Drag and drop into text question type |
| Quiz Type - Select missing words | Similar to the Drag and drop into text question type, but uses drop-down menus in the text instead of drag-boxes. | Select missing words question type |
| Quiz Type - Drag and drop onto image | This question type allows students to drag words, images or both from a list and drop them into pre-defined gaps on a base image. | Drag and drop onto image question type |
| Quiz Type - Drag and drop markers | Students drag text markers to a location predefined by the teacher on a background image. | Drag and drop markers question type |
| Forums - Pinned discussions | Important forum posts can now be pinned to the top of your list, making them more visible to your students. | Using forum - pinned posts (may need to scroll down the page) |
| Forums - Ratings | Allows lecturers to control rating permissions | Rating Permissions |
| Folder download | When a Folder resource contains many files, students can download them all in a zipped file. | Folder resource |
| Workshop submissions report | You can now view all participants and filter to see who has and has not submitted to a workshop during the submission phase. | Using workshop |
| Easier Section Editing | Change section titles without leaving the page, speeding up the creation of your subject. | Edit a course section (may need to scroll down the page) |
| Date | Other enhancements | Overview |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/Mar/03 | Gradebook | Tutors are now able to mark individual grade items using "Single View". |
| Dec/2016-Jan/2017 | Subject order | New subjects will appear at the top of the home dashboard list |
| Dec/2016-Jan/2017 | Gradebook | Gradebook calculation enhancements for easier grade book setup by lecturers |
| Dec/2016-Jan/2017 | Download multiple assignments | Select which assignments you want to download for offline viewing from a new option in the menu |
| Dec/2016-Jan/2017 | Group Filtering | Allows lecturers and tutors to filter grading via groups |
| Dec/2016-Jan/2017 | Bullets and ordered lists | Bulleted lists display different symbols at three nested (sub) levels. The bullet symbols display in both the content editor box and on the page display:
Numbered lists display different symbols at five nested levels. The numbered symbols display as decimal only in the content editor box and as the defined nested level symbols on the page display:
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