Accessibility | - Improved navigation and semantic structure (both visually and technically for assistive technologies)
- Improved image responsiveness across devices and platforms
- Simplified colour scheme and improved colour contrast
- Improved WYSIWYG editor for content editing
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Activity completion | - Manually mark activities as complete on behalf of students
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Assignments | - Set a date on which to be reminded to mark assignments
- Select which file types to accept from students in Assignments and Workshops
- Easier to override assignment settings for an individual or group
- Sort blind marked assignments by blind ID instead of userid
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Atto text editor | - Equation editor button allows equations to be written
- Accessibility button allows content to be checked for accessibility
- See How do I edit text in the LMS? for more details
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Calendar | - My LMS Subjects calendar displays the calendars of each subject within one calendar view, with the option to link to or export the calendar
- Change events by dragging and dropping to a new date
- Calendar events display in pop-up window
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Choice | - Selection can be made on behalf of students
- Choice deadline now displayed in calendar
- Open and close dates can be specified separately
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Database | - The setting “Required entries” is now an activity completion condition
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Forums | - Discussion topics can be locked after a period of inactivity
- ‘Mark as read on notification’ is a user preference
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Gradebook | - Page size in Single view reports is now configurable
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Look & feel | - New look & feel (colours, fonts, page layout) that is optimised for mobile devices, improves navigation and provides more space for content
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My LMS Subjects | - “Favourites” tab allows user to select to only see the subjects marked as favourites
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Navigation | - “Navigation Drawer” replaces the Navigation block and Administration block
- “Hamburger menu” hides the left-hand navigation menu creating more space for content
- “Gear menu” provides a drop-down menu that gives easy access to edit settings
- “Jump to” menu beneath each activity enables moving to the next or previous activity, or to jump to any other activity
- Improved “breadcrumb trail” makes it easier to navigate and keep track of your location on computers and mobile devices.
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Private files | - Ability to view remaining space helps to manage storage limit
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Quizzes | - Select and delete multiple questions from the question bank
- Allow multiple answers in cloze MULTICHOICE question type
- Select which file types to accept from students within the Essay type question
- Embed files when manually grading questions
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Rubrics | - Rubrics allow for negative scores
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Student management | - Filter enrolled users by period of inactivity
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Subject importing | - When restoring/importing large subjects in Weeks and Topics formats into smaller subjects, the number of sections is adjusted automatically.
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Tags | - Tags can be added to glossary entries, forum posts, database entries and book chapters
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