Learn about the great new features in Moodle 3.1 whether your an administrator, teacher, or student.

1. The Best New Features in
Moodle 3.1
Jonathan Moore
● http://elearningconsultancy.com
● jonathan@elearningconsultancy.com
● Twitter: @moorejon
● Skype: moorejon07

2. Performance
● PHP 7 support (technically started in 3.01)
● Improved bulk user export performance
● Improved gradebook calculation performance

3. Competency Based Education
● Define: skills, outcomes, competencies (insert
favorite term here)
● Hierarchical
● Multiple frameworks
● Site wide workflow

4. Individual Learning Plans
● Templates
● Create ILP for user from template
● Create custom ILP for user
● Assign learning expectations at site level

5. Mobile
● Students can view and track ILPs
● Quizzes! (including offline with supported
question types)
● Mobile app add-ons

6. Recycle bin plugin
● First Moodle User Association project!
● Teachers can restore accidentally deleted
course backups
● More efficient than automated course backups

7. Assignment grading
● One-page assignment grading
● Annotate many file types while grading
(requires Unoconv)
● Download selected assignments files as zip

8. Easier course editing
● More in-place editing
● Less page reloads for minor edits

9. Publish as LTI
● Share Moodle courses / activities
– Between Moodle sites
– To other LTI enabled platforms
● Pass grade information to consuming site

10. Tagging
● Tag resources or activities
● Tag collections – ability to separate independent
tag areas

11. Search
● Global search is back!
● Search file system repositories
● Meta linked courses search
● Improved tags search

12. Bulk download
● Students and teachers
● As zip file

13. Forums
● Pinned discussion forums
● Customizable email subject lines

14. Rewrite output moodle_urls
● Config.php setting
● Allow plugins to rewrite urls
● Clean / semantic urls