What’s new in Moodle 3.9
Published: 2020-11-04 11:39:27

Moodle releases the latest version 3.9 with few modifications and improvement on their existing features and implementation of few new features. Here you can have quick insights over a features list of latest Moodle version 3.9.

***H5P Integration***

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* H5P activities can be inserted in Moodle Courses and can be 
  connect to the Gradebook.
* New Features of Moodle allows you to create and manage new 
  activities within the Moodle platform without any need of 
  additional plugin.
* With the features of Backup and restore you can download and 
  upload all the activities in form of .h5p Package.
* Students can utilize your intuitive substance and get a review 
  or be set apart as complete for the activity.
* The capacity to utilize H5P content sorts as a Moodle action, 
  with grade book coordination and activity completion.

***Safe Browser Exam***

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* Safe Exam Browser is currently completely incorporated with 
  Moodle 3.9 so now you don’t require installing external plug-ins 
  or anything.
* To utilize the safe exam browser learners must need to install 
  the Safe Browser Application.
* By Using this integrated features of Moodle 3.9 you will be able 
  to restrict learners to access external websites.

***Recommended Activities***

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* Moodle 3.9 has a new, customizable ui, which incorporate the 
  choice for admin to ‘endorse’ specific activities or resources.
* There is a facility to put “star” for popular activities.
* In both scenario, this features allows user to locate and add 
  mostly utilized activities and resources to your courses.
* Starred activities can be seen in “Starred” shortlist.
  Admin can create a site-wide “Recommended” activity list.

***Course Copy***

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* Moodle 3.9 enable visual interface for teachers and admin to 
  duplicate the courses which was already available in the code.
* Due to implementation of Copy Course features in Moodle 3.9 the 
  duplication of courses are now uncomplicated.
* It provide the Course copy interface so courses can be copied 
  from single user interface rather than performing backup and 
  restore procedure.

***Locate the Learners Rapidly***


It’s simpler to sort and filter learners with Moodle 3.9. New and stepped forward search queries (such as ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘not’) make it easy to locate the circle of students you need to track down. The overall performance of the Participants page has additionally been improvised, so your filtered outcomes will appear a lot faster.

***Moodle Net***

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* To use MoodleNet, a trainer ought to have a lively account on a 
  MoodleNet federation, which needs to be indexed on their 
  profile. To get admission to a collection resource, they must 
  have access to the collection.
* MoodleNet integration; a new plug-in has been evolved to permit 
  educators to navigate to the drawing close MoodleNet social 
  community from the activity chooser.
  When the administrator enables the integration, educators can 
  push content material from MoodleNet to their Moodle course.

***Badges 2. 1***
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* Moodle 3.9 enable Support for Open Badges 2.1
* Admin has rights to handle user’s badges backpacks.

***Do you want further information on Moodle 3.9?***

If you’re an existing Moodle user, then to discuss the options for upgrading your Moodle platform contact us at inquiry@vibidsoft.com.

If you want to develop online learning management system and see how Moodle can help your organization with their learning and development, get in touch with our business development team via inquiry@vibidsoft.com.

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