{"id":6743,"date":"2020-06-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2020-06-30T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:14:24","slug":"whats-new-in-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/06\/30\/whats-new-in-moodle\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in Moodle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, ITS has upgraded Swarthmore&#8217;s Moodle installation to version 3.9. This is a large upgrade that includes a number of new features. Here are some of the new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Turn Editing On<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The turn editing on button has been introduced to empower users to quickly edit their content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TurnEditingOn-1024x801.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TurnEditingOn-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TurnEditingOn-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TurnEditingOn-768x601.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TurnEditingOn-77x60.png 77w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TurnEditingOn.png 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Go to Top<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Moodle now has a button to scroll the page to the top. No more tedious scrolling on lengthy course pages \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoToTop-1024x801.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoToTop-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoToTop-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoToTop-768x601.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoToTop-77x60.png 77w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoToTop.png 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accessibility Improvements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Accessibility improvements have been made to the built in Moodle editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/dev\/Atto#:~:text=Atto%20is%20a%20javascript%20text,a%20standard%20Moodle%20YUI%20module.\">Atto editor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ImageDescription-1024x801.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ImageDescription-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ImageDescription-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ImageDescription-768x601.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ImageDescription-77x60.png 77w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ImageDescription.png 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">H5P<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package. With H5P, educators are able to create interactive content. H5P was introduced in Moodle version 3.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about H5P in Moodle &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/38\/en\/H5P\">https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/38\/en\/H5P<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Moodle 3.7 to 3.9 new features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These features are just a few of many. For a full list of new features that have been introduced, please visit the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/38\/en\/New_features\">https:\/\/docs.mo odle.org\/38\/en\/New_features<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/39\/en\/New_features\">https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/39\/en\/New_features<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, ITS has upgraded Swarthmore&#8217;s Moodle installation to version 3.9. This is a large upgrade that includes a number of new features. Here are some of the new features. Turn Editing On The turn editing on button has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/06\/30\/whats-new-in-moodle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s new in Moodle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":6754,"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":[2,124,80,125,12],"tags":[90,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-6743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-learning","9":"category-moodle","10":"category-open-source","11":"category-tips","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-moodle","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/moodle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1KL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}