What’s new in our latest maintenance pack release, including Moodle 2.7. The new Blackboard Collaborate and Moodle integration & a glimpse of the future.

1. Teaching & Learning Forum
By Moodlerooms
Solutions Update
Lewis Carr
Nathan Cobb

2. Moodle 2.7 – What teachers may have missed
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General Teaching and Learning
Improvements
The new Atto text editor.
“Java-less” mathematics equation editor.
Conditional Release.
Gradebook.
Assignment Enhancements
How 2.7 improves teaching
workflows through word limits,
filtering and notifications.

3. Meet Atto – Your new Moodle text editor
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4. Why Atto?
• Faster to load
• Improved Accessibility
• Better drag ‘n’ drop image support
• Support for beautiful mathematic equations without Java – now
supports phones and tablets.
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5. How drastic is the change?
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This is Atto, in 2.7
This is TinyMCE, 2.6 and below

6. Atto – Equation Editor
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7. Conditional Release
Building better learning paths
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8. Enhanced Conditional Release
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9. Enhanced Conditional Release
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10. Enhanced Conditional Release
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11. Enhanced Conditional Release - logic
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12. Enhanced Conditional Release – manage restrictions
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13. An example scenario – learner pathways
• Jill and Ben are in the same class. But they see different
content, and not because they are in different groups.
• This is because John has unlocked additional content because
his grades are higher than Jill’s.
• Jill has been performing badly on key skills, so an entire topic
section was unlocked for her.
• John however has dyslexia, this was identified by a profile field
in his Moodle account (a simple short digit code).
• John’s teacher has created some content just for John and
others with dyslexia.
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14. Gradebook Enhancements
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15. Gradebook Enhancements – Top scrollbar
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16. Gradebook Enhancements – Filter by name
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17. Assignment Enhancements
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18. Assignment Enhancements – Online Text Word Limit
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19. Assignment Enhancements – Online Text word limit
reached
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20. Assignment Enhancements – Online Text inline comments
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21. Assignment Enhancements – Filtering Submissions
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22. Assignment Enhancements – Notify Students
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23. Teachers can edit submissions or delete them!
• How many times have your students sent a submission for
marking but uploaded the wrong file?
• Or attempted the wrong assignment?
• Or simply made a mess of the entire process?
In the past, only admins could edit or delete the submission. Now,
teachers can finally do it.
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24. Moodle 2.8
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25. Gradebook Enhancements - Usability
The main focus in 2.8 has been around the gradebook.
With an improved user interface based upon community
workshops, surveys and bug reports.
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26. Gradebook Enhancements – Single View
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27. Gradebook Enhancements – Single View
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28. Gradebook Enhancements – Single View
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29. Gradebook Enhancements – Grade History
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30. Assignment Enhancements – Additional Files
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31. Assignment Enhancements – Choose Notifications
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32. Quiz Enhancements – Old interface 2.7
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33. Quiz Enhancements – New interface 2.8
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34. Quiz Enhancements – New interface 2.8
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35. Quiz Enhancements – Question Bank
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36. Students can email files to their private file area
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Student captures
evidence on mobile
Student emails
attachment to Moodle
private files
Once in Moodle, student
uses attachment as
assignment submission

37. Reply to forums via email (with attachments)
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Student replies to forum
via email
Can use attachments
Forum thread continues
via email or via Moodle

38. How long until we get 2.8?
56 Days
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39. July 2015 Moodlerooms release
• Production release July 8th 2015
• Sandbox release approx first week of June
• Client Webinar approx first week of June
• All client sites will be automatically upgraded on the release
date
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40. Moodle and Collaborate 2015 Integrations
• Collaborate 2015 integration
– Real time virtual conversations within the browser
– Session scheduling
– Recording view
– Attendance grading
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43. Mahara 1.10
• New Assignment plugin that supports “collections”
• Allow anonymous pages
• Allow feedback/comments on notes
• Display submitted pages and/or collections
• Drag and drop sort order or pages and collections
• Social Media Block
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44. Office 365 Integration
• Single Sign On from Office 365
• Repository for OneDrive (file picker)
• Support for OneNote Assignment Submissions
• Annotate directly on OneNote Submissions
• Show OneNote feedback link in grading table
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45. Rest of 2015
• Moodle 2.9 and Mahara 1.11
– Learning paths
• Hosting improvements
– Decreased page load speeds
– Decreased backup file storage usage
– Migration to object storage
• Simplified and enhanced reporting
• Report subscriptions
• Advanced uses for Collaborate 2015
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46. Questions.
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