{"id":4034,"date":"2019-12-02T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2025-02-27T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:48:59","slug":"moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization","title":{"rendered":"Moodle 3.8 Has Come Up with Latest Features for Your E-Learning Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization\/#Details_Insight_into_Learners_Activities_and_Improved_Forum\" title=\"Details Insight into Learners\u2019 Activities and Improved Forum:\">Details Insight into Learners\u2019 Activities and Improved Forum:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization\/#Boost_Interactive_Learning_Content_and_Maximize_Engagement\" title=\"Boost Interactive Learning Content and Maximize Engagement:\">Boost Interactive Learning Content and Maximize Engagement:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization\/#Emojis_Custom_Fields_and_Calendars\" title=\"Emojis, Custom Fields and Calendars:\">Emojis, Custom Fields and Calendars:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization\/#Session_Timeout_Alerts_and_Improve_Quiz_Creation\" title=\"Session Timeout Alerts and Improve Quiz Creation:\">Session Timeout Alerts and Improve Quiz Creation:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/moodle-3-8-has-come-up-with-latest-features-for-your-e-learning-organization\/#Search_and_Filter\" title=\"Search and Filter:\">Search and Filter:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moodle is one of the most popular LMSes that allow the educational organizations to create interactive portals and other e-learning applications. It is also used by a large number of corporate organizations to implement their training courses and deliver a unique learning experience to the staffs. Since the launch of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Moodle development<\/span> software, it has always come up with some latest and upgraded version of their module and each version comes with significant changes, enhancements that make the development process easy and efficient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Recently on November 19<sup>th<\/sup>, Moodle rolled out its latest version 3.8, bringing in new features and functionalities that improve the learning experiences. The latest version focuses on the community requested improvements, forum enhancements, learning analytics functionalities and also a first stage H5P integration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">Let\u2019s discuss the features in details:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Details_Insight_into_Learners_Activities_and_Improved_Forum\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Details Insight into Learners\u2019 Activities and Improved Forum:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The enhanced Forum activity allows the teachers to easily assess the contributions of the students directly from the posts. The forum also supports different types of grading, ability to view the discussions that are in context and also collapse the grading panel so that it can free up more space. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moodle 3.8 version offers accurate insights into the data of the learners and allows the teachers to assess the contributions of the students. The teachers can also gather vital information about the students from the reports and check the number of discussions that they have started, their replies and recent posts and etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Boost_Interactive_Learning_Content_and_Maximize_Engagement\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Boost Interactive Learning Content and Maximize Engagement:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The H5P integration helps educational institutes to enhance their e-learning experiences through multimedia content that is interactive. The new H5P button is presented under the Atto editor that allows the teachers or educators to upload a wide range of interactive tests, video tutorials and quizzes.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/bid-goodbye-to-moodle-net-and-welcome-moodlenet\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bid Goodbye to Moodle.Net and Welcome MoodleNet!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They can also initiate a direct conversation with the students and enhance the productivity of their e-learning courses. They can also select multiple students and send them messages together.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Emojis_Custom_Fields_and_Calendars\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Emojis, Custom Fields and Calendars:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Moodle 3.8 development platform has also come up with messaging features and it enhances the quality of communications between the students and the teachers through the emojis. The users can now add various types of emojis while sending a message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The new version also allows the administrators to configure the current application layout with the custom course fields and it also allows the admins to configure the colors of the card patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emoji-blogpost.jpg\" alt=\"emoji-blogpost\" width=\"800\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emoji-blogpost.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emoji-blogpost-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emoji-blogpost-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/emoji-blogpost-560x261.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Even the calendar features have changed and it allows the users to stay updated with the latest activities in the forum.\u00a0 Students and the teachers on Moodle can easily filter the calendar by upcoming events, day and month.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Session_Timeout_Alerts_and_Improve_Quiz_Creation\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Session Timeout Alerts and Improve Quiz Creation:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moodle 3.8 version allows educational institutes and corporates to easily create and manage effective quizzes that can benefit the learners. It also allows to display appropriate tags and ID numbers in the question bank together with the edit option so as to efficiently organize the questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In earlier versions of Moodle, the session time out occurred if there was no activity done for several minutes without any notification. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But Moodle 3.8 has now come up with a session timeout alert that appears a few minutes before the time out session.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Search_and_Filter\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Search and Filter:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">You can now search your courses fast and easily on the dashboard and also filter them according to your course type or custom course field. For the administrators, the automated course backups are now processed in a logical order having options to exclude the course files.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/tips-for-creative-moodle-hacks-that-will-boost-your-course-performance\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tips for Creative Moodle Hacks That Will Boost Your Course Performance<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moodle is one of the most popular LMSes that allow the educational organizations to create interactive portals and other e-learning applications. 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