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Moodle version update and service break 29th June 2017

The Moodle learning environment of the University of Helsinki will be updated to version 3.2 on Thursday 29th June during the time at 8-17 o’clock. During this time Moodle is not available for users.

New features in Moodle 3.2:

  • Discussion locking after a period of inactivity
  • Assignment overrides for individuals or groups
  • Rubrics grade calculation now allows negative scores
  • Teachers can make a selection on behalf of students in the Choice activity
  • User-friendly messaging and alerts
  • New media player VideoJS
  • Interactive report charts

Watch videos about Moodle 3.2 highlights. Please note that the Boost theme will be applied to UH’s Moodle later.

At the same time some new features will be implemented:

  • Moodle Mobile – use Moodle via an app
  • H5P – a versatile tool for making teaching material, e.g. interactive videos
  • Progress bar will be replaced with Completion Progress block – a handy students’ follow-up tool

Moodle Mobile and H5P are in testing and they can be used independently.

If you have any questions about the new version of Moodle, please contact moodle (at) helsinki.fi

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What is new in Moodle 3.1?

Moodle was updated to a new version 3.1.4 on 10th January 2017.

Changes in the new version:

  • Grading Assignment submissions has got smoother by showing all elements on one screen. The teacher can annotate uploaded PDFs within the browser, and on saving, the annotated file is made available to the student. It is recommended to advice students to upload their submissions in PDF format.
  • The teacher can easily restore deleted items by the new Recycle bin. The content will be permanently deleted after two weeks.
  • When a Folder resource contains many files, students and teachers can download them all in a zipped file.
  • Teachers can now pin important forum posts to the top of the discussion, making them more visible to all.
  • Everybody can now easily link to forum posts by the new permalink feature.

Read more about the new features.

Please note that there are also some functionalities generally available within Moodle 3.1. version that the University of Helsinki will not be taking into use. These include:

  • CBE – Competence based education
  • Global search
  • Tags
  • Annotating other than PDF files
  • LTI tools
  • Metalinked courses

If you have any questions about the new version of Moodle, please contact moodle @ helsinki.fi

Watch a video about Moodle 3.1. highlights:

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Moodle was updated

Moodle was updated during the service break on third January. There were no drastic changes, mostly small improvements to the user experience.

This video (18 minutes) summarizes the most important improvements:

Two things mentioned in the video are note applicable to the UH Moodle installation:

(Starting at 8:50 in the video.) UH Moodle does not have the private files area enabled. File linking is however possible by selecting course files via the Server files repository.

(At 11:40.) UH Moodle will only have the new assignment module available. Old assignments will be converted automatically to the new module during the upgrade. The grading interface has slightly changed; for more information, please read the instructions at Moodle.org.

Full list of changes in Moodle 2.3: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.3_release_notes.

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Moodle updated – new features for teachers

The UH Moodle has been updated to a new version (2.2.2). Most of the old functionality is intact, the most notable changes include

  • New Navigation and Settings blocks, which make the user interface more consistent. Watch a video demonstration (1 minute) of the new user interface.
  • Setting up enrolment keys is no longer done in course settings. Watch a video (1 minute) describing the process.
  • Enrolling a user manually is no longer done from ‘Administration / Assing roles’ but from ‘Settings / Course administration / Users / Enrolled users’.

There are four new activities:

The most important new features include

Best place for documentation in English is http://docs.moodle.org.

There’s a 3-hour course for Moodle teachers on 21st August.

Questions? Contact us at ok-moodle@helsinki.fi.