Moodle Features

Moodle offers students and instructors a personalized dashboard listing courses and tasks, and collaborative tools including forums, wikis and group calendars. It lets you work with files stored in cloud services like Dropbox, and supports notifications and private messaging between users. It is available for multiple languages, supports open standards like Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) and Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), and works well with screen readers. Finally, it comes with an extensive plugins directory together with support from more than 60 worldwide partners.

What is New in Moodle 3.4?

Major features

Calendar improvements

• MDL-59333 – Calendar Improvements
• MDL-1322 – Calendar entries in monthly view should include course shortname
• MDL-59382 – Create calendar event quick-add
• MDL-59390 – Add navigation of all calendar views without page reload
• MDL-59394 – Add support for drag and drop of calendar events
• MDL-59386 – Add support for creation and update of calendar events using a modal dialogue
• MDL-59890 – Add support for calendar events at the category level

Management of course participants

• MDL-59290 – Merge Course Participants and Enrolled Users pages
• MDL-59564 – Add bulk editing of enrolment status/dates for users in the course participants page
• MDL-59364 – Remove the “Brief / User Details” functionality from the participants page
• MDL-59365 – Enrol Users button on participants page
• MDL-59366 – Add filter controls to the participants page to allow custom filtering
• MDL-59367 – Add a roles column to participants page
• MDL-59368 – Add a groups column to the participants page
• MDL-59369 – Add a status column to the participants page
• MDL-59436 – Remove the columns from the participants page that are not in showuseridentity
• MDL-59821 – Add “Proceed to course content” to participants page

Other highlights

• MDL-57791 – Implement analytics engine in Moodle
• MDL-59313 – Add links and a drop down to navigate between activities
• MDL-37361 – Allow teachers to mark activities as completed

Backup, restore and import

• MDL-35429 – Correct the permissions required to download and restore course automated backups
• MDL-9367 – Restore with roll forward changes dates for user data
• MDL-59518 – Restore date should not roll for user created data – Core components

Global search

• MDL-55356 – Index contents of the restored courses
• MDL-59523 – Course reset doesn’t always shift dates
• MDL-58957 – Global search: Make it possible to search blocks
• MDL-59039 – Global search: Allow partial indexing (in scheduled task)

Authentication

• MDL-30634 – Assign arbitrary system roles via LDAP sync
• MDL-58544 – Add option to trust email of an OAuth provider
• MDL-59844 – Enable OAuth 2 token-based authentication for requests in webdav_client
• MDL-59459 – Global Search: Increase file indexing coverage
• MDL-59913 – Global search: Allow search of non-enrolled courses

Functional changes

• MDL-55358 – LIS Group Variables support in LTI
• MDL-36501 – Should have checkbox for extra credit when you add a grade item
• MDL-28574 – Web services: Manage tokens page should show tokens for all users
• MDL-26976 – Display space used in My Private Files
• MDL-35668 – Performance improvement in Server files repository
• MDL-49398 – Performance improvement due to Role definition caching & accesslib refactoring
• MDL-60002 – Assignment grading: Adding back “Save and show next”
• MDL-58889 – Make section titles and course titles more accessible in Boost
• MDL-57455 – Allow to tag database entries
• MDL-36985 – Assignment: automatically remove embedded files that are no longer linked from submission text. Reduce the size of “Download all submissions”
• MDL-59702 – Lesson overview report does not respect value of showuseridentity setting
• MDL-59460 – Forum: make Subscription mode setting configurable

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