Finally,
Moodle 2.8 is obtainable for download that is the result of extremely
hard work of the core team and community contributors. The all new
version 2.8 brings lots of important revolutionary enhancements to
the Gradebook tool, analytics, forums, usability and many other areas
to empower teachers and enhancing other functionalities for everyone
across all other devices.
As we all know that Moodle is a free e-learning software platform that gained huge popularity across the world due to its rich features, functionalities and incredible performance. Before launching this new version, a serious regression has been introduced because of the harshness of the issue, so the company release this new version with errors fixed and removed earlier versions from download channels.
However, if
you have upgraded your website to Moodle 2.8.0, you make sure to
upgrade your site again as soon as possible. Moodle 2.8.1 comes with
lots of new features and updates that you should know, so go through
this blog:
For all
users –
Text
Autosave: With Text Autosave, you can
automatically save your text as you type, keeping your content fully
secure before publish it.
New User
Menu: Now, users can get a quick access to
personal pages like My home and profile settings as new user menu
makes it easy for you.
Email to
private files: Now, you can easily send
yourself an email with an attachment and it will be saved to your
private files for later in different courses.
Grade
Improvements –
Improved
Grader report: Lots of enhancements have been
made to the gradebook as the grader report now functional on
different devices with smooth scrolling. Moreover, it becomes easy
for you to quickly edit cells without any reloading.
New
Single view: With a new single view, you can
make quick edits to one item or one user.
Natural
weighting: Natural weighting is a new and
best aggregation method, which combines grades with a clear interface
for using weights. Moreover, hidden grades, extra credit and excluded
grades are supported with it.
New Grade
History Report: Now, users can also track the
grade history of particular users and markers in this report.
Forum
Enhancements –
Subscribe
to Individual Discussions: It becomes easy
for you to subscribe to single forum discussions and get email copies
of the replies that you are looking for.
Excellent
Navigation Through Threads: Now links that
taken to the earlier and next thread make it extremely easy to move
between essential discussions.
Email
replies to forum posts: You can easily reply
to forum posts by email and include attachments as well for added
convenience.
New
Options For Quiz, Assignment & Choice
Enhanced
Quiz Edit Screen 7 Completion settings: For
enhanced accessibility, the edit quiz page has been rewritten as it
make it easy to add and manage questions. Moreover, you are also able
to set completion conditions that based on a passing grade or when
all the obtainable attempts have been used-up.
More than
one choice with Choice: While creating a
choice, you can allow users to select more than one choice.
Some
extra Files for Assignments: For students,
teachers can easily attach files at the time of setting up
assignments like submissions or answer templates.
Cohorts
Cohorts
can be developed on upload: With the help of
a csv file either from the Cohorts screen or when uploading users,
admins and managers are able to develop cohorts. By default, teachers
can enroll cohorts visible to them.
A new
'All Cohorts' screen for Admins: Now,
administrators can get a clear overview of all the system and
category cohorts from the new cohorts screen.
Analytics
and Reporting
Stay in
touch by subscribing to events: With event
monitoring, teachers, admins and managers can easily develop and
subscribe to events.
New
events: Lots of detailed logging and events
have been added specially in to grades.
So, these
are some of the new updates and features of Moodle 2.8.1 that allow
users to get lots of new facilities and functionalities. Moreover, if
you are looking to get Moodle customization service, you should hire an expert Moodle developer from any professional Moodle development company.
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