New improvments and features will be added to TLEARN (Moodle). These new features will benefit students, faculty and staff and will be available for the Fall semester. Read on to see a preview of these new features.
Settings block renamed to Administration
To avoid confusion between Edit settings and the Settings block, the Settings block has been renamed to Administration. There is no functionality change as the Administration block has the same options as before.
Assignment - PDF annotations
When a student submits a PDF as an assignment, the teacher may annotate the submission directly in the browser. Some of the annotation features are highlighting text, free-form drawing, adding select stamps and adding text boxes. After a teacher annotates a submission, stutdents may download a PDF that includes their submission and any annotations left by the teacher.
Activity & Resource editing icons cleaned up
For teachers with many activities and resources on their course homepage, the page may look cluttered with a set of editing icons next to each resource/activity when editing is turned on. Now only the Edit title icon and Move appears next to the resource/activity name while the others are in a menu to the right.
Text Editor updated
The new text editor features a sleeker design with new icons. The most frequently used formatting options will appear by default while less commonly used options will be hidden. Users may expand the toolbar to reveal these additional options if desired. in addition, the new text editor has a better responsive design to fit different screen resolutions.
Better responsive design for all devices
As more and more users are using tablets and smartphones to access TLEARN, the interface needed to adapt to teh different sizes of all these devices. The new responsive design should bring a more aesthetically pleasing look to TLEARN no matter what device you are on.
Collapsible Fields
Previous versions of TLEARN required instructors to perform a great deal of scrolling. Collapsible fields have been integrated to reduce scrolling and compact teh display to show a limited number of fields. Click Expand all (top right) to open all collapsed fields. Clicking Expand all again, collapses all fields.
Courses unavailable to students are greyed out
Previously courses that were hidden from students were the same link color as available courses. Now there is no confusion as to which courses are available or not available.
Badges
Badges are a nice way to acknowledge good work, and it's now possible for teachers to award course badges based on variety of chosen criteria.
Reports moved to the Administration block
Reports have moved from Navigation block and can now be seen in the newly named Administration block, (formerly Settings.)
Make Course visible or hidden to students
The setting to make a course hidden or available is not at the top in the General area. Click Edit settings in the Administration block and change the setting to Show or Hide.
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