Moodle and Web 2.0

Moodle 3.1 New Features Infographic

New and exciting features that are included in Moodle’s latest version.

For Teachers

- Supported competency based education

- Grading Assignment submissions

- Download selected assignments

- Easily restore deleted content

- Pin forum discussions

- Workshop enhancements

- Share activities on your website

- Tag course activities

- Easier section editing

- Search metalinked courses

For Administrators

- Create competency frameworks

- Apply plan templates

- Global search

- Convert assignment files

- Search the file system repository

- Lesson default settings

- Tagging enhancements

For All Users

- Bulk download files in a zipped folder

- Search everywhere!

- Message others more efficiently

- Easily link to forum posts

It is no secrete that there are high expectations around version 3.1 of Moodle that will be coming out later this month. Many have even said that 3.1 is what 3.0 was actually “meant” to be, in terms of new functionality and just general “wow.”

True to form, Moodle has already started creating the documentation for 3.1 and I happened to check out the “New Features” page, currently under development. There are already 20 new features that are slated for showcasing. Click here to follow along.

New stuff for Teachers:

1. Full support for Competency Based Education
2. Smoother and more intuitive Assignment grading
3. The ability to download select assignments for offline viewing
4. The recycle bin for easily restoring deleted content
5. The ability to pin forum posts to the top of the discussion
6. A permalink function to easily link to forum posts
7. The ability to share activities between more than one Moodle site
8. Tagging of courses for easier searching
9. Editing and creating sections without leaving the course
10. Searching for courses that are meta linked and adding them together in one step
11. The ability to restrict file types in workshops

New stuff for Admins:

1. The ability to create competency frameworks across your Moodle site
2. The development of global learning plans
3. Globally search your Moodle
4. Annotate directly on different file types
5. Search the file system repository
6. Setting default values for a lesson to make creation easier

New stuff for everyone:

1. Bulk downloads of course files to a .zip folder
2. Global search functionality