University of Helsinki
Moodle will be upgraded to version 3.6 on June 26th, 2019, from 8 AM to 5 PM. During this time, Moodle is closed and cannot be logged into. The update may not take the whole day, but the time is reserved as a precaution to prepare for potential update issues and fixes.
Improved Course overview function
This improvement has been waited for: the courses on the Course overview on the Dashboard can now be sorted, starred, and hidden. The view can be just a listing, a pictorial “card” format, or a listing with a course description. You can also add new blocks to your page: Recently accessed courses, Starred courses and Recently accessed items (activities and resources). By default, everyone will see their own Recently accessed courses block. The Timeline can now be found in its own block within the right column. Click the “Customise this page” button at the top right of the page to edit your Dashboard’s Course overview. You can add blocks from the “Add a block” button at the end of the left column.
New messaging interface
There are new options in the inbox message view: Starred, Group and Private. You can mark your contacts as starred, and their posts will appear on your list. New group communications allow group members to send messages to the entire group. This requires that the function is enabled in group settings. The teacher must also be a member of the group if she wants to send group messages.
For teachers
Easily find duplicated items
Duplicated resources are appended with ‘copy’ so you can easily distinguish between the original and copy.
Download the list of course participants
In the Participants page, you can download the list of course participants for example to Excel. The participant list has been changed so that the last name comes first.
Contact us
- You can ask questions and give feedback about the update at moodle@helsinki.fi
- More Moodle guides: MoodleDocs
- See Autumn term Moodle trainings