What’s new in Moodle 2.8!

There have been regular new versions of Moodle for some time now, each building upon the previous version. 2.8 is here to stay a while which will be a relief to the IT Tech Team as well as Moodle Administrators and Teachers. 2.8 is scheduled to be maintained for core bug fixes until November 2015 and security updates until May 2016. You can now rely on a solid platform that will not be changing any time soon.

Moodle has caught up with this very useful tool. You have no need to worry if your computer crashes or your connection to Moodle is lost along with all your work. Autosave ensures your text is saved as you type.

Forum posts can now be ‘liked’! Implemented as a single item scale, posts can be ‘liked’ bringing Moodle closer to social media actions.

Gradebook has now ‘come of age’ and is well worth investigating and investing time in learning how to use it effectively. It’s now easier to organise your Gradebook and use across all devices. You can also categorise activities so that. for example, you can create a ‘Homework’ category and all your assessments for homeworks can fall under that category.

You’ve always been able to subscribe to forums but now you can subscribe just to particular discussions, navigation has improved and you can now e-mail replies to forum posts.

The Quiz edit screen has been improved making it easier to manage your questions and quizzes. You can also set completion conditions based on a passing grade or when all available attempts have been used up. See Building Quiz for more information.

Simple but important change. Users can now select more than one choice providing much more flexibility of use.

A very useful addition if you teach vocational and advanced courses is the ability to add additional files to your assignment such as a template or grading information.