Best new features in moodle 3.1
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The Best New Features in
Moodle 3.1
Jonathan Moorehttp://elearningconsultancy.com
Twitter: @moorejon
Skype: moorejon07
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consultantOver 10 years moodle expManaged thousands of sites
Performance
PHP 7 support (technically started in 3.01)
Improved bulk user export performance
Improved gradebook calculation performance
Admins care about outages80% 80%By knowing our changes we can drastically lower downtime
Competency Based Education
Define: skills, outcomes, competencies (insert favorite term here)
Hierarchical
Multiple frameworks
Site wide workflow
Individual Learning Plans
Templates
Create ILP for user from template
Create custom ILP for user
Assign learning expectations at site level
Mobile
Students can view and track ILPs
Quizzes! (including offline with supported question types)
Mobile app add-ons
Recycle bin plugin
First Moodle User Association project!
Teachers can restore accidentally deleted course backups
More efficient than automated course backups
Assignment grading
One-page assignment grading
Annotate many file types while grading (requires Unoconv)
Download selected assignments files as zip
Easier course editing
More in-place editing
Less page reloads for minor edits
Publish as LTI
Share Moodle courses / activities Between Moodle sites
To other LTI enabled platforms
Pass grade information to consuming site
Tagging
Tag resources or activities
Tag collections ability to separate independent tag areas
Search
Global search is back!
Search file system repositories
Meta linked courses search
Improved tags search
Bulk download
Students and teachers
As zip file
Forums
Pinned discussion forums
Customizable email subject lines
Rewrite output moodle_urls
Config.php setting
Allow plugins to rewrite urls
Clean / semantic urls
