This summer we’re upgrading from Moodle 4.1 to Moodle 4.3. Read below for the key changes, click through for more detailed information on new features.
Overview
Updates to Gradebook
- Improvements have been made to the Gradebook UI to improve usability, including functions for searching, sorting and viewing grades, and aggregating grades across assessments.
Improvements to course pages
- Activities can now be indented in course pages and course menus, providing a new method for indicating hierarchy in pages.
- Text and media elements (labels) now appear in the course index tab and have a new custom naming feature.
- Collapse all and Expand all options have been added to the course page to make it easier to work with sections.
- New activity card designs have been introduced. View and update more activity information from the course page, such as availability and group settings.
- Bulk editing for course activities is now available: delete, duplicate and move multiple course items using the new bulk edit tool.
- Course sections can now be duplicated, and permalinks have been introduced for individual course sections to make it easier to share content.
- Moodle now remembers course position when using browser back button from an activity – you’ll be taken back to exactly where you left.
- Small improvements to completion criteria settings, including new site-wide default settings and clearer settings for managing activity and course completion conditions.
Updates to activities
- Students can now be messaged directly from a Moodle assignment about late or missing submissions
- Small UI improvements to Database activity
- Updates to Quiz and Question Bank functionality, including improved question bank searching.
- H5P content in the content bank can now be duplicated
Official Moodle Changelogs
Read more details about everything that’s changed with the Moodle updates by following the links below:
- Moodle 4.2: https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.2
- Moodle 4.3: https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.3