{"id":6031,"date":"2019-08-12T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:25:19","slug":"whats-new-in-moodle-for-fall-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/08\/12\/whats-new-in-moodle-for-fall-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in Moodle for Fall 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Academic Technology team just finished upgrading Swarthmore&#8217;s Moodle site to version 3.7 this summer.\u00a0 This update provides the college with the latest features and security updates.\u00a0 This version does not have major changes but does have some features that will make life easier.<\/p>\n<h1>What&#8217;s New?<\/h1>\n<h2>Updated Home Page<\/h2>\n<p>Moodle now allows several ways to manage your course listing on the Moodle home page.\u00a0 You can filter by course status (current, past, and future courses), highlight (&#8220;star&#8221;) courses as your favorites, or view by alphabetical order.\u00a0 At the bottom of the page, Moodle lists the last courses you have accessed.<\/p>\n<h2>Assignments<\/h2>\n<p>Instructors can now record audio or video feedback for student assignment feedback.\u00a0 It is also possible to rotate incorrectly uploaded PDFs.<\/p>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<p>Moodle <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/37\/en\/Book_resource\">books<\/a> can now be printed or sent to PDF with a more attractive output.\u00a0 This can be useful for offline access of course content.<\/p>\n<h2>Quizzes<\/h2>\n<p>Instructors have access to a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/37\/en\/Quiz_statistics_report\">large collection of statistics<\/a> about Moodle quizzes, which may be helpful in analyzing the results of an assessment.<\/p>\n<h1>Get in Touch<\/h1>\n<p>As always, if you have any questions or feedback about the changes, please get in touch with your Academic Technologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Academic Technology team just finished upgrading Swarthmore&#8217;s Moodle site to version 3.7 this summer.\u00a0 This update provides the college with the latest features and security updates.\u00a0 This version does not have major changes but does have some features that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/08\/12\/whats-new-in-moodle-for-fall-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s New in Moodle for Fall 2019<\/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":[90,154,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-6031","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","11":"tag-upgrade","13":"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-1zh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","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=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6033"}],"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=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}