Moodle and Web 2.0

If you cannot follow the official “Learn Moodle 3.4 Basics” MOOC to completion, or are interested in helping others get introduced to Moodle and its newest features, Moodle HQ has released a 32-video training playlist, its largest yet.

As mentioned, Moodle 3.4 has focused heavily on enhancing user experience to make sure our users are able to navigate and use all of Moodle’s tools easier and faster.

Fitting in with that focus, one of the improvements in Moodle 3.4 is the ability for to enrol and manage their learners from a single screen. This results in a smoother course management process, enhancing usability.

As mentioned, Moodle 3.4 has focused heavily on enhancing user experience to make sure our users are able to navigate and use all of Moodle’s tools easier and faster.

Fitting in with that focus, one of the improvements in Moodle 3.4 is the ability for to enrol and manage their learners from a single screen. This results in a smoother course management process, enhancing usability.

We are pleased to announce that Moodle 3.4 is now available for downloading on our community site at moodle.org. As we mentioned in our Moodle 3.4 major works and improvements updates previously, this new release has strongly focussed on usability and making our learning platform more powerful and user-friendly.

Now, we are pleased to share a number of improvements and capabilities in Moodle 3.4 that we hope will assist Moodlers to more efficiently and effectively use their Moodle sites.

Moodle 3.4 – The next major version of the Moodle project is ready for release on next Monday – 13th November 2017. Moodle 3.4 is focused towards improving the accessibility and usability of Moodle. The version is now under the Quality Assurance (QA) testing. At the time of writing, the QA testing is almost over with only 2 pending tests and 573 passed tests.

The new Moodle 3.4 will be released with other Moodle point releases of the currently supported versions like Moodle 3.3.3, 3.2.6 and 3.1.9.

Moodle 3.4 – the upcoming major version of Moodle project, is due to be released in November 2017. Moodle project releases a new major version after every six months. Every new version has a lot of new features and improvements based on the Moodle project’s roadmap.

The new features in Moodle 3.4 are picked from the feedback provided by the Moodle community. The new features and improvements are focused on improving the Usability, Administration and Analytics aspects of Moodle core. The road map of Moodle Project includes the major areas of development like Platform, Access, Management, Feedback, Content.

As mentioned, Moodle 3.4 has focused heavily on enhancing user experience to make sure our users are able to navigate and use all of Moodle’s tools easier and faster.

Fitting in with that focus, one of the improvements in Moodle 3.4 is the ability for to enrol and manage their learners from a single screen. This results in a smoother course management process, enhancing usability.

Hello everyone! I’m back again to place a little cherry � on top of the hard work done by hundreds of people to produce another Moodle release: version 3.4!

We set out to focus on fixing known usability issues and bugs in this release, rather than adding too many new features.

As a result you’ll see our headline features in this release are improvements to some of the most-used parts of Moodle, such as:

- A modernised calendar interface with drag and drop etc Improved participants page, merged with enrolments
- Better navigation in Boost themes
- Control over file types in assignments and workshops
- Our new Inspire analytics system is now integrated in core, ready for the community to really help us take it forward
- Many many smaller improvements all over the interface

Calendar improvements in Moodle 3.4 will assist users to manage their deadlines and events more efficiently than ever before. The Moodle Users Association (MUA) submitted and funded the Moodle calendar improvement project. For those who don’t know about the MUA, the association is a non for profit group that support the development of Moodle core through a memberships and project submission / voting system.

Considering the announcement made recently by Moodle Founder Martin Dougiamas signaling a development introspection of sorts, no new features will come in Moodle 3.4, and we might have to wait until 3.6 for brand new functionality. Rather, the coming year will focus on getting the existing parts working as they should, all of them already available in Moodle 3.3.

At the four-minute mark, Jeremy Schweitzer describes Moodle to the newcomers, touching on the “modularity” to which it owes its name, and important attributes including the open source nature of the project and the importance of a global community for its ongoing development.

Last month we had a look at the current major works in Moodle 3.4 that our developers and community members are working on.

As our chief Moodler explained in his keynote presentations at recent MoodleMoots, we are focussing our core development on usability.

We are also currently working towards releasing Moodle 3.4 by the second Monday of November, as outlined in our development process.