Old Moodle News

1. More intuitive / user friendly

• Better layout and look, more stability and server capacity
  
  
• Drag n Drop pictures, files, text directly into the course without using any menus
  drag n drop functionality
  
  
• Activity chooser: There is now only one link ‘Add activity or resource’ at the bottom of each section – clicking on it pops up the activity chooser, where you can click on a resource/activity type and it will display help for it.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGmOzqd1Tzs

• Less cluttered editing page, more direct editing (activity names, number of topics)
  
  
• Docking - move the blocks to the side  http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Dock
  
  
• Easier Navigation (My courses, Top menu, Main section)
  My courses is a customisable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

 2. New + Improved activities:

• Improved Workshop (Peer marking), and Wiki, Quiz modules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QypkOcAEaE#t=58
  
  
• Simplified assignment – one type, new functions (download all assignments at once)
  
  
• Usable bloglike feature within a course (new type of the forum activity which pins the first post of every new discussion topic)
  
  
• Built in Team Assignments and Blind marking possibility
  
  
• More user friendly Feedback activity: for anonym course evaluation / form to choose presentations
  
  

• The Book resource allows instructors to create a book-like resource for students. Book is similar to Page, but allows to create multiple pages that are linked linearly, like the pages of a book.

 3. New functions

• Conditions for activities, the activities can be scheduled (by date) and it is possible to order them (only viewable after an other resource is read) http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Using_Conditional_activities
  
  
• Completion tracking http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Using_Activity_completion

 4. Changes in the core

• Discontinued:
  Bulk file upload (replaced by drag n drop functionality) replaced by drag n drop functionality
  
  
• Different user management (manage users > enrolled users instead of Assign roles)
  Screencast
  
  
• Different enrollment management (manage users > enrollment methods > self enrollment instead of Settings)
  Screencast
  
  
• Different file / repository handling (will make it possible in the future to link Google Drive, Dropbox)
  
  
• Better mobile support and view from portable devices