What's New

• The Grader report now uses the whole window; Smooth, stable scrolling in all directions; Works on all platforms, including phones and tablets
• Cells can be quickly edited without reloading
• Assignment grading table filters
• Gradebook search allows for filtering by student name

Learn more about the improved Grader report in the official Moodle 2.8 documentation.

• New design with clearer calculations, which includes a contributions column that explains grade calculations
• This report now includes the calculated weight of each grade item as well. It is set to show by default but may be hidden in the Course grade settings.

• Improved interface;
• Copy/paste import direct from spreadsheet programs;
• Robust handling of null data or bad data;
• Locked grade items are now protected from imports;
• Export to multiple display types (Letter, Percentage…)

Track the grade history of specific users and specific markers in this new report.

• Combines grades simply;
• Clearer interface for using weights;
• Supports extra credit, excluded grades, hidden grades;
• May remove the need to use other aggregation types

Learn more about the Natural aggregation type from the official Moodle 2.8 documentation.

Atto - An Alternate Text Editor

While TinyMCE remains the current default, a new, simplified text editor with autosave support is now also available to use within UR Courses. This editor loads faster and should provide better performance on phones and tablets.

View the Moodle 2.8 screencast highlighting some of the new features available when working with the new Atto editor.

To use the new editor, edit your profile settings and change the Text Editor selection to the Atto HTML editor.

Word count in TinyMCE

Word count in Atto

A new logging subsystem provides opportunities for improved reporting as well as advancements in better learning analytics.

Learn more about the new log format in the official Moodle 2.8 documentation.

• Improved Quiz edit screen and completion settings
• The page where you assemble your questions to make a quiz has been completely re-built to make it much easier an more efficient to use. For example you can now drag-and drop questions to re-order them or move them between pages
• Quiz reports improved.

• To duplicate a question, you now start by clicking the duplicate icon, like for activities.

• The various different ways to move questions in the question bank have been rationalised.

• There is now a 'Save changes and continue editing' button when editing questions. Useful when you are working on a complex question with the preview open in another window.

• The interface of the question type selector has been updated

• Essay questions can now require an attachment, with the text optional, rather than the other way around.

• You can now allow users to select more than one choice when creating a Choice. Read more.

• Word limit feature added to online assignments.
• Instructors can now attach files for students when setting up assignments, such as example submissions or answer templates. See Assignment settings for more information
• New capability that allows to control which grader receives notifications
• now possible to comment directly on students' work on online text assignments
• When assignment is submitted by one team member it is now shown as submitted for all team members