From the course: Moodle 2.8 Essential Training
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New features in Moodle 2.8 - Moodle Tutorial
From the course: Moodle 2.8 Essential Training
New features in Moodle 2.8
- Moodle 2.8 has a number of new features that are designed to benefit both the teachers and learners using Moodle. Here are a few of the features that will benefit everyone. The new Atto text editor now saves what you type automatically. A new user menu provides quick access to your personal pages. Teachers can create a single item scale, meaning you and your students can have a Facebook style "Like" rating. And, you can email a file directly to your private files area in Moodle, where it's saved and ready to add to your course. The Moodle 2.8 developers have also enhanced a number of activities. Now the Forum activity allows you to subscribe to individual discussions within a forum, so you only follow the threads that you want to follow, navigate more easily through each forum using previous and next links, and email replies directly to forum discussions that you receive via subscription. In addition to these great features, the Quiz activity has an improved edit screen. The Choice…
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