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What's coming in the QMplus upgrade?
- 2. New Features Currently testing Up to date list of features on E-Learning Website Type of development: Part of the upgrade Plugins – Moodle community In house development Some expected features followed by short demos (on the Test environment)
- 5. Who want’s to see the ‘Quiz enhancements’
- 7. 2. Design and Build
- 8. Mass action
- 10. Grid view
- 11. My QMplus block and hidden course areas
- 13. Bulk enrolment
- 14. Custom enrolment visibility block
- 18. Checklist
- 20. Demo
- 21. Key Dates Testing currently in progress Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st July – QMplus restricted access and intermittent outages Wednesday 22nd July – QMplus 2.8 released Monday 27th July – 2014/15 Archive available Week of 27th July – Rollover available to administrators Tuesday 25th August – post-upgrade release
Editor's Notes
- Upgrade mailing list
- The grades area has received a few enhancements, including: The Single View – Staff can select to view either by grade item or by user: Single View – All assignments’ grades for one student Single View – All students’ grades for one assignment The Grade History Report - The Grade History Report allows teachers to select specific students, grade items and/or graders to view the grading history for certain dates. Viewing the Grade History Report
- The quiz tool has received an overhaul. The layout of quizzes has changed and now has a modern look to it. . The question bank does not appear on the page. To add a question from the question bank you must click on the ‘add a question’ option and select the question bank (or create a new question). There are a few new questions types which are being released, including drag and drop questions and potentially some of the new questions shown above e.g. opaque, JME. The are still being tested.
- The assignment tool now allows for inline comments in student submissions. The teacher provides feedback by typing directly into the feedback box in the assignment grading screen which contains the student submission. They assign a grade, click save and they’re done. The feedback is returned to the student. This is an excellent way to provide rapid feedback on short pieces of work; without the need for uploading and downloading feedback files.
- The Mass action feature gives staff the ability to select several items on their course page and then move, delete, hide or show them all at once, instead of having to do them individually. This is achieved by adding the Mass Action block.
- The Grid view changes the format of the page to display the topics as Icons, instead of the list view. When an activity is added to a topic, the icon displays a blue banner saying ‘New Activity’. When an icon is clicked, the topic’s content is displayed in a new window.
- The current ‘My QMplus’ block, available from the QMplus homepage, only displays 6 courses and you have no control over the order that these courses appear. This block has been modified to display all your courses, in the order you want. It reflects any changes that you make to the My QMplus module overview page – where you can hide and move courses around. This is especially useful for those enrolled on more than 6 courses. 2) Currently hidden courses do not appear to students. This raises unnecessary concern for students as they think they are not enrolled on their modules. After the upgrade, students will see all courses that they are enrolled on within their ‘My QMplus Module Overview’ page. Hidden courses will display a ‘Not available’ notice.
- The Bulk Enrolments tool allows you to give access to a large number of staff and/or students to a course or enrol them into groups within the course. Previously only Administrators had the ability to do this. This feature has now been rolled out to all teaching staff and course administrators.
- There are times when students are being enrolled onto a QMplus course area from other courses, or programmes. It is not always obvious to teacher staff which set of students are being enrolled or if custom enrolment has been set up correctly. The course mappings block was a feature added in April which will display any custom mappings being used within a course area. Here we have the course mappings block enabled for DEN306, which shows that it is drawing from the students enrolled on DEN427 and DENM022.
- Student IDs are now visible on various screens within QMplus – such as the grades and enrolment screens. Not only can you see the IDs, you can also sort columns and search by ID.
- The SITS Marks Transfer feature was introduced in April – allow school QMplus administrators to easily transfer marks already entered in QMplus over to SITS. [In House Development; April Release]
- Checklist is an activity that can be added to any course, or individual topics. Checklists can be created by teachers, students, or auto-generated based on the course content. Checklists can help students track their own progress throughout a course, and allow instructors to see an overview of their students progress. A Block can be added to the main page to show progress on any course checklists.
- Linked to QMplus activities, the Progress Bar block allows students to keep track of where they are in a course, which activities they have completed, which they have yet to do and where activities are overdue. With the colour coded overview, teachers or administrators can quickly see an overview of their students and can see who is falling behind or who is racing ahead. This can serve as a useful tool for monitoring student engagement with the course area. Particularly useful for self-directed or distance learning courses to keep students on track.
- Some items may not be released in July if they do not pass testing, and cannot be resolved in time. As part of the archive process, we will be reviewing the roles and capabilities to try and reduce issues uncovered last year. Rollover will be available after the archive site is released. Also, part of the archive process will include a ‘house keeping’ exercise as we are aware that there are still old courses sitting on both the live site and the archive. This affects performance of the live site and there is no need for courses to be duplicating this way. We will be looking to remove old courses that are on the live site.