Get a more technical overview in the Moodle 3.8 Release notes.

Read our 3.8 New features documentation.ĭo you want further information on Moodle 3.8? We recognise and appreciate the work of all language pack maintainers and translators, whose indispensable contributions make possible the spread of our open-source LMS across the world, empowering educators and learners in over 100 languages. You can find out more about Koen’s role in this interview. Koen has diligently handled all Moodle translation matters for over 15 years, as well as maintaining the Dutch language pack. Moodle 3.8 is dedicated to Koen Roggemans, our volunteer Moodle translation coordinator. You can now search your courses more easily on the dashboard, filtering them by course type or course custom field.įor Admins, automated course backups are now processed in a logical order with the option to exclude course files.īig shout out to Koen Roggemans and our global community of translators With emoji support in Moodle 3.8, everyone can include these colourful, universal communication accessories in private messaging, as well as in the Atto text editor within Moodle courses. Increase course engagement with Learning Analytics insightsĪs we explained in our sneak-peek post, Moodle 3.8 includes two new analytics insights that allow teachers to easily monitor and contact students who have not accessed the course recently or at all. With the new H5P button in the Atto editor teachers can link to or upload a variety of quizzes, presentations, video exercises and more. With the new Forum summary report, teachers can quickly see valuable data relating to forum activity for every student: how many discussions they have started, how many replies they have sent, their most recent posts, a word and character count if enabled, along with other useful data.īoost student engagement with interactive contentĪs Part 1 of the integration of Moodle and H5P, Moodle 3.8 enables teachers to easily embed interactive multimedia content from the open-source H5P project into areas such as Pages, Books and Labels. Forum discussions may also be usefully exported. The revamped Forum activity enables teachers to easily assess student contributions directly from their posts, with different types of grading supported, including rubrics, the ability to view discussions in context and to collapse the grading panel to free up more space. Get insight into your learners’ activity in the Forum

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