{"id":5227,"date":"2018-08-22T11:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2018-08-27T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:18:33","slug":"whats-new-in-moodle-for-fall-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2018\/08\/22\/whats-new-in-moodle-for-fall-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in Moodle for Fall 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITS upgraded to the latest version of Moodle this summer.\u00a0 Moodle version 3.5 has new features that make teaching your class easier.<\/p>\n<h1>Audio Recording Anywhere<\/h1>\n<p>A new button on the text editor allows faculty and students to record audio anywhere.\u00a0 This could be used by a professor to provide instructions or for students to provide audio submissions for an assignment.\u00a0 Audio recording works with any device including laptops, tablets, or smart phones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5228\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5228 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording-1024x145.png\" alt=\"Moodle audio recording button in text editor\" width=\"720\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording-1024x145.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording-768x109.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording-270x38.png 270w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/moodle_audio_recording.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look for the microphone icon in the Moodle text editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Easier Manual User Enrollment<\/h1>\n<p>In the past, manually enrolling users was cumbersome.\u00a0 It is now possible to do the enrollment right from the Participants page.\u00a0 Click on the &#8220;Participants&#8221; page link on the left menu and then look for the new &#8220;Enroll Users&#8221; button on the top right of the page.\u00a0 Much easier!<\/p>\n<h1>Accessibility File Scan<\/h1>\n<p>The File Scan block is a new tool added to all Fall 2018 classes.\u00a0 The tool shows the accessibility levels for all PDF files in a course.\u00a0 In our goal to ensure that all course content is accessible, it is important that, at a minimum, all PDF files contain text and not just an image of the text.\u00a0 In the future, we will also need to add more accessibility features such as a document outline and metadata title and language to PDFs.\u00a0 For more information about the tool and how to fix PDF files see the <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu:8443\/display\/MOODLE\/Moodle+PDF+Accessibility+Check\">Moodle PDF Accessibility Check<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h1>And More &#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>Some other new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased number of courses shown on each page of the Moodle dashboard<\/li>\n<li>Updated fonts and icons make the display clearer<\/li>\n<li>Ability to restrict file uploads to specific file types<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please get in touch with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/its\/academic-technology-staff\">Academic Technologist<\/a> if you have any questions about Moodle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITS upgraded to the latest version of Moodle this summer.\u00a0 Moodle version 3.5 has new features that make teaching your class easier. Audio Recording Anywhere A new button on the text editor allows faculty and students to record audio anywhere.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2018\/08\/22\/whats-new-in-moodle-for-fall-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s New in Moodle for Fall 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[90,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-5227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-moodle","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-moodle","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Untitled-design-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1mj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}