Latest Moodle News

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register to join us for the free Moodle Academy webinar “What’s New in Moodle 4.4” on Thursday 2 May, at 13:00-14:00 UTC.

In this webinar you will learn about the new features of Moodle 4.4 for administrators and teachers.

This webinar is part of the course 'What's New in Moodle 4.4'. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.

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by Sandra Matz.  

Come and join us for this special presentation, on Tuesday 30th April at 8:00-9:00 UTC, as we Get ready for MoodleMoot Global 2024 in Mérida, México!

This session will cover what you need to know about attending and presenting at the event. Moodle HQ team members will be on hand to run you through a general overview of the event, the program, submitting abstracts, presenting at the Moot, information and tips about Mérida and the conference venue, details on the Moodle Party, and some highlights from last year's event.

So register now and come and join us as we get ready for MoodleMoot Global 2024!

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by Simey Lameze.  

We want to say a big thank you to all our QA testers for helping us complete 476 tests during this cycle! 🧡

Your teamwork and dedication made this achievement possible. Those who completed 3 or more tests will receive a Moodle tester badge 🏅 

We also want to give a special shoutout to our core developers for quickly fixing the bugs we found during testing. Thanks to your hard work, we're all set to release Moodle 4.4 today, Monday, April 22nd, 2024.

A big thanks to everyone who contributed in any way, whether it was through testing, investigating, or fixing bugs. Your contributions have played a vital role in ensuring the quality and reliability of Moodle for educators and learners worldwide.🚀🏆

by Matt Porritt.  

Hi Everyone,

I’m excited to announce the release of Moodle LMS 4.4!

This latest release continues our ongoing journey of empowering our users with improvements designed to help them unlock their creativity, facilitate cooperation and optimise learning outcomes. As always, the features of this release align with our commitment to equity and accessibility.

A big ‘Thank you’ to our community!

The Moodle LMS 4.4 release contains 285 improvements and new features that the Moodle LMS teams, our community developers and our Certified Partners have been working on over the last 6 months. Our community members contributed 81 issues to this release, including 72 improvements and new features. Overall the release had contributions from 121 developers from 25 countries.

In addition, you have helped us by running QA tests, providing translations and writing documentation. 
Thank you for your efforts in supporting and improving Moodle. As an open-source project, we couldn’t do this without you!

Please see below a summary of our new key features and improvements:

Course page improvements and activity icons: A fresher look

Course pages, the heart of Moodle's learning experience, have received significant improvements in Moodle LMS 4.4. The navigation experience within a course has been improved to help learners focus on the material at hand; by default, clicking on the section heading in the left-hand course index or on the section title will now navigate the student to a section page displaying only the content for that particular section.

As part of the course look refinement, the activity icons have been updated to a lighter look and feel to be less dominant on the page.  Additionally, the colour palette has been adjusted to provide better accessibility for those who perceive colours differently.  The colour palette was tested against the four most common forms of colour blindness to help optimise the experience.

Streamline communication with enhanced notifications

Moodle LMS 4.4 introduces enhanced notification options to proactively inform and engage users. Students are alerted when manually enrolled in courses, ensuring they can engage with new learning opportunities right away. If students are at risk of being unenrolled due to inactivity, they can be alerted to give them the chance to re-engage and continue their learning journey.

For educators, the streamlined process for managing course enrolments and engagement through automated notifications frees up your time, allowing you to focus more on teaching and student interaction.

The system also introduces advanced health monitoring support for administrators, sending immediate notifications for any task failures or system issues. This feature allows for quick problem identification and resolution, enhancing system reliability and administrative efficiency by leveraging notifications to maintain a smooth operation of Moodle LMS without needing to check each component manually.

Richer assessments with ‘ordering question type’

The popular quiz question type plugin “Ordering question type” has been migrated into Moodle core. As part of this process, the code has been modernised, accessibility issues have been addressed, and a migration path has been created for a seamless upgrade.  Initially developed by community member Gordon Bateson and available as an optional extension, this feature is now a core part of Moodle, enabling educators to create dynamic assessments that require learners to sequence content accurately. This tool develops learners' problem-solving skills and deepens their understanding of narrative coherence and metacognition. 

We extend our gratitude to the Moodle Users Association (MUA) for sponsoring this invaluable integration!

Advanced digital collaboration with Matrix

In Moodle LMS 4.4, we’ve added support for course groups directly within Matrix rooms, fostering more organised and cohesive communication experiences. This enhancement not only provides flexibility and convenience but also guarantees that the communication permissions within Matrix accurately mirror each user's role and responsibilities in the LMS. 

Elevate classroom conversations with forum upgrades

In this version of Moodle, we've delivered significant forum management enhancements. Thanks to our community developers, we are introducing configurable defaults for announcements to forums, paired with quick access to the “Post to all groups” option, these changes help foster more engaging and efficient interactions within courses. Educators gain streamlined tools for easier discussion management, particularly in courses with multiple groups, ensuring that essential announcements reach every student.

TinyMCE: The cornerstone of content creation

We're introducing TinyMCE as the default editor for all newly installed and upgraded LMS sites. With this change, we aim to empower educators, students, and administrators with a reliable and advanced platform for crafting engaging educational content. Students will find content submission simplified, enhancing their learning experience with interactive and appealing materials, and enjoying consistency in editing across all platforms. For administrators, TinyMCE offers advanced control over plugins and customisation, allowing for a more flexible and tailored learning environment, alongside improved content management strategies to ensure effective and secure use of editing tools. This comprehensive upgrade ensures a uniform, intuitive experience for creating, managing, and engaging with educational content in Moodle 4.4.
 

Strengthen security with improved MFA setup

Moodle LMS 4.4 significantly advances user account security by simplifying the Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) setup, making it more user-friendly and thus strengthening account protection. For educators and students, the MFA setup experience is now more streamlined, simplifying the process of securing Moodle accounts against unauthorised access. The introduction of SMS-based MFA codes offers flexible security options, allowing all Moodle users to select the security method that best suits their needs, ensuring secure access to courses and resources. This update also provides enhanced control over personal and course data security, maintaining a safe and secure learning environment. For administrators, this update means a more straightforward configuration process for MFA, improving the ease of implementing and managing security measures on the Moodle platform, bolstering system security, and accommodating user security preferences more effectively.

Recognise achievements with upgraded badge management

Our latest update introduces enhanced badge management, making it easier to showcase student competencies. Now, you can filter badges by name or date and manage versions and expiry dates more efficiently. This simplifies issuing and tracking badges, helping to highlight students' milestones. For educators, the update means less hassle in badge management. Creating, awarding, and tracking badges within courses is now straightforward, fostering student engagement and motivation through gamification. Administrators will see a lighter support load and more seamless oversight, promoting a unified and engaging educational experience.

Optimise admin work with custom reporting and user management updates 

Moodle LMS 4.4 introduces significant updates to custom reports and user management, specifically designed for administrators. The latest enhancements include custom report tagging, new filtering options, and a novel report offering insights into roles assigned across the site. These updates facilitate the creation of more detailed reports and provide a comprehensive view of user permissions, simplifying report management by consolidating access to all reports in a single, easily accessible location. 

In addition, with the enhanced Browse list of users page, administrators can now easily filter through the user database, identifying specific groups of users. This focus on effective user management is fundamental to fostering a supportive, engaging, and well-organised learning community. Thanks to improved filtering capabilities, administrators can now navigate the user database more effectively and execute bulk actions more efficiently. This update conserves time and enhances the administrative workflow and system organisation, leading to a more orderly and manageable user database. 

Learn more about Moodle LMS 4.4 by watching our short videos from this playlist: and reading our new features documentation for an overview of the key features and improvements.

We are really excited to see all this hard work out into the world for everyone to benefit from! 

Kind Regards,
Matt Porritt
Head of Platform Solutions

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for the Moodle Academy free webinar “Using AI tools to create primary school Moodle content”, on Wednesday 24th April, 12:00-13:00 UTC. At this webinar, we will welcome Dr Alexandros Kofteros, Teacher, EU CodeWeek.Ambassador.

One of the challenges of using Moodle to create courses for students to interact with, is the time required for the teacher to gather quality, licence-free resources for use in teaching, on an almost weekly, if not also daily, basis. Additionally, the requirement to cater to the different needs of individual students within the same classroom, makes the creation of content for courses an even more difficult job.

In this webinar, our invited speaker will focus on using AI tools to create content to support primary school students (ages 11 - 12) in various subjects. Alexandros will create audio, graphics and text to support teaching of Language, Environmental Education and Mathematics, including presentations for each subject.

This webinar is part of the course 'Moodle Academy webinars'. You have to be enrolled in this free course to register and join the webinar.

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by Sandra Matz.  

We are excited to announce that registrations and abstract submissions for MoodleMoot Global 2024 are now open!

We hope you will be able to join us in the vibrant and spirited city of Mérida in México from 22-24 October, to unlock potential, inspire change, and empower learners to envision and create a world where education is the heartbeat of progress!

With the focus on the main event theme “Unlocking human potential”, we invite Moodlers from any educational, training or learning field to come together as educators, developers, administrators, and learners to learn from each other, share findings and explore best practices to adapt, innovate, and make learning accessible to all. At Moodle, we're excited to share and explore the vast possibilities of education in an open and diverse community and we are looking forward to hearing your ideas!

We invite you to submit your abstract now for the opportunity to present your ideas, examples, and case studies. The abstract deadline is 14 May 2024 (UTC-6).

This year’s event program will include three different Jam activities. All registered MoodleMoot Global attendees are welcome to book a place to attend one of the Jams, but places for these sessions are limited, so we recommend you register early to avoid disappointment!

Register to attend the event before 16 July 2024 (UTC-6) to benefit from early bird discounted rates. After you register for the conference, you can book your free place to join your preferred Jam event, which will give you an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow Moodlers and share your expertise.

We hope to see you in October in México for an inspiring convergence of minds and hearts in the world of education!

Best regards,

MoodleMoot Global team
moodlemoot.org
#MootGlobal24

by Jessica Gramp.  

Hi everyone. I'm happy that we can now announce our finalised dates and location for MoodleMoot Global 2024: Save the date!

Dates: 22-24 October 2024
Location:📍 Mérida, México

Register for updates: https://moodle.me/mootglobal

We will be opening up registrations and abstract submissions in the next week or 2, so it's time to start thinking about what you would like to share at this year's global Moot!

#MootGlobal24 #Moodle

by Carles Aguiló.  

Dear moodlers,

Our 2024 Integrations' Survey results are out and we're happy to share them with you! 🥳 We heard from users all across the globe and all across Moodle functions, and we're already devising a plan to hear from even more of you next year. Thanks to everyone that participated or spread the word!

The main goal of our research is to understand which types of tools and functionality our users want to see better integrated with Moodle, and as it begins to be tradition, when asking about  integrations, we get great feedback about them, and also about Moodle in general, as you can see in the quotes section on slide 20 and forward.

As a sneak peak of its contents, I will share that the 2 most popular areas of interest continue to be:

1. Content creation, and
2. Video conference, or Virtual classroom for the savvy.

But Learning Analytics has taken 3rd place, the new Generative AI takes 4th place, and Plagiarism & Proctoring surges to the 6th.

Happy reading everyone! And happy break if you get one.

Best,

       Carles🤓

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for the Moodle Academy free webinar “What is the MEC?”, on Wednesday 10th April, 10:00-11:00 UTC. At this session, we will welcome Anna Krassa, Education Advisor at Moodle Academy.

This informational webinar is suitable for anyone interested in knowing more about the Moodle Educator Certificate or MEC. The MEC offers educators the opportunity to advance their careers by demonstrating their expertise in teaching with Moodle LMS or Moodle Workplace. It aligns with the European Framework for Digital Competences for Educators (DigCompEdu) and focuses on enhancing the quality of education provided. The MEC is intended for experienced Moodlers, i.e. users who have prior training with a Certified Service Provider or Moodle Academy and have some experience teaching with Moodle.

This webinar is part of the course "Are you ready for the MEC?". You have to be enrolled in this free course to register and join the webinar.

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by Marie Achour.  

Hello Moodlers,

Welcome to this edition of ‘Showcase Shorts’.

We’ve entered code freeze and our QA testing has now started, which can only mean one thing… A new release of Moodle LMS is coming soon! (on April 22nd, to be exact)

Here are a few sneak peeks at some of the new functionality you can expect to see:

Introducing our new look icons & sections

Taking into account valuable input from the community, we're polishing the default course appearance by introducing sections to Moodle LMS 4.4. We've fine-tuned the styling for better consistency and improved accessibility, making navigation smoother for all users.

As part of this refinement, we've given the Activity icons a lighter makeover to tone down their prominence on the page. Plus, we've adjusted the colour palette to ensure better accessibility for users with colour vision deficiency. Our palette underwent rigorous testing against the four most prevalent forms of colour vision deficiency to ensure an optimised experience for all users.

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - Improved course experience

More options & a smoother user set-up experience for Multi-factor Authentication

Expect continuous improvements to the Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) tools introduced in our last update. In Moodle LMS 4.4, setting up security is even easier for users. Plus, users will now be able to get MFA codes sent via SMS, giving security-conscious folks even more options to choose from.

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - MFA Improvements

Bulk actions for user pages, a Moodle Workplace feature, is coming to Moodle LMS

Thanks to the hard work of the Moodle Workplace team, improvements are coming to the ‘Browse list of users’ page in Moodle LMS 4.4. The lists will be able to be filtered more easily, and functionality for bulk user actions is being introduced.

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - Bulk actions for user pages 

Out-of-the-box access to the ‘Ordering Question Type’ functionality in Quiz 

A fan favourite, the Ordering question type plugin will be seamlessly integrated into Moodle core in 4.4. This means updated code for modern usability and improved accessibility. Plus, upgrading is a breeze with a seamless migration path in place. Big shoutout to the Moodle Users Association (MUA) for sponsoring this fantastic feature and to our community contributor, the legend Gordon Bateson, for creating it in the first place!

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - Ordering Question Type MUA project

The Moodle LMS 4.4 release is not the only thing keeping us busy across Moodle Products!

We are also getting ready for the release of Moodle Workplace 4.4 (scheduled for a few weeks after the Moodle LMS release), which will include our new Course Catalogue functionality; you can see it in action in this video:

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - Course Catalogue in Action

And, we are continuing to improve the user experience in our Mobile Applications; for a big round-up on a range of new features, check this video:

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - Mobile App Improvements 

Last but not least, for our Moodle Community Developers, our journey to continuously improve your developer experience continues. Find out how by watching this:

Sprint 1.1 & 1.2 - DX Improvements

That’s it for this edition of our ‘Showcase Shorts’; we hope you’ve enjoyed the updates.

Until Next Sprint!

The Moodle Product Team

by Sandra Matz.  

As a Moodle user, have you ever needed to search the Tracker, comment or vote on an issue or even create an issue yourself? Did you find the process daunting?

If so, join Community Engagement Advisor Helen Foster for a non-technical introduction to the Moodle Tracker, including tips for successful searching and advice on how to report a bug or suggest a new feature. This free webinar will be held on Monday 25th March at 13:00-14:00 UTC.

This webinar is part of the course 'Moodle Academy webinars'. You have to be enrolled in this free course to register and join the webinar.

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by Olga Koenig.  

Hi Everyone 😊
We'd like to inform you that the Moodle HQ team has been diligently working on implementing a new site policy for moodle.org to enhance our security measures. Kindly note that you will be required to accept the new site policy the next time you log in.
The full site policy is available at this link

Best,
Olga

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for the Moodle Academy free webinar “Translating User-Generated Content”, on Wednesday 13th March, 9:00-10:00 UTC.

In this Moodle Academy webinar, Andrew Hancox, of Open Source Learning, and Rajneel Totaram, of Moodle Academy, will talk about the technical details of building a Moodle plugin for translating user-generated content.

This presentation will explore the design and challenges of content translation, and how the content translation pluginset tries to overcome these.

If you are a Moodle developer keen on user-generated content translation or want to learn about a complex use of Moodle filter plugin, this presentation will be of interest.

This webinar is part of the course 'Moodle Academy webinars'. You have to be enrolled in this free course to register and join the webinar."

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by Sandra Matz.  

Registrieren Sie sich für das kostenlose Moodle-Akademie Webinar "Zahlen - Daten - Fakten (ZDF): Mit nutzerdefinierten Berichten ein eigenes Moodle-Reporting aufbauen" am Mittwoch, den 6. März um 14:30-15:30 Uhr UTC.

In diesem Webinar werden Sie vom YouTuber und Moodle-Experten Dag Klimas mit nutzerdefinierten Moodle-Berichten vertraut gemacht.  Darüber hinaus, wie Sie einem ausgewählten Nutzerkreis Berichte zum Abruf zur Verfügung stellen können. Damit nicht genug, Sie lernen auch, diese Berichte periodisch, z. B. als Excel-Datei, an Empfänger/innen per E-Mail zu senden.

Die Praxisbeispiele basieren auf den Umsetzungen der eduBASEweb-Plattform, die Dag Klimas seit Mai 2023 verantwortet.

Dieses Webinar bezieht sich auf die folgende Kompetenz:

•  6.1 Site reports

Dieses Webinar ist Teil des Kurses 'Moodle Academy webinars'. Sie müssen für den Kurs eingeschrieben sein, um sich für das Webinar zu registrieren und teilnehmen zu können.

Registrieren Sie sich für das Webinar.

by Carles Aguiló.  

Dear Moodlers,

I'm happy to be back with topic-specific updates, still at a monthly cadence, and to focus this month on languages.

1. Teaching languages with Moodle

There is an excellent course at Moodle Academy presented by our long-time Moodler and even longer-time language teacher Mary Cooch that can also be found on our Youtube channel. Teaching Languages with Moodle

It not only presents all tools and strategies to teach languages on Moodle, but also suggests plenty of small tricks and ways in which to use those tools effectively, clearly displaying the command of real-life teaching and learning that Mary possesses.

2. Poodll

Poodll is a set of tools that makes language teaching and language assessment a piece of cake. You can create little games like flashcards (with user completion tracking) and a 90's arcade game in a word learning fashion. You also have all the tools you need to grade the student's speech or video output automatically or manually, and easily provide them with feedback that can be automatically or custom generated, text, video or audio again, and that will add real formative assessment to their activities. Poodll is also a Moodle Certified Integration, so Moodle has performed an in-depth review of its code and user experience.

3. Languages and educational technology shows

I have been lucky to attend three shows in these first weeks of 2024: Learning Technologies France in Paris, BETT show in London and FOSDEM in Brussels. Whereas I have been to BETT many times, it was my first time for Learning Technologies France and my first time at FOSDEM and both were extremely exciting, buzzing and essentially too successful, as booths were busy the whole time and talks often hung the sign "This room is full". And for both of them, you better speak a couple of languages too, as English will normally get you far, but there is nothing like communicating with people in their comfort zone, which is their mother tongue.

And that's it from me! Next month I'll be back with the results of the 2024 Integrations' Survey. Until then, have a beautiful time.

Best,

      Carles

by Scott Anderberg.  

Hi Moodle Community,

I’m off to a strong start in my 3rd full week as Moodle’s new CEO.  I’m back in London after two great weeks in Australia with our teams and partners there.  People keep asking me how I’m feeling.  The answer is full!  There are so many great things happening and so much great work to do.  The highlight of the last two weeks has been meeting people though, and I’m looking forward to continuing to do that!  We’ll be working hard on our forward looking plans over the coming months and as important information becomes available, I’ll be back in touch.  I will be doing a lot of traveling in the coming months to visit other members of our team and I’ll be looking for the opportunity to pop in at MoodleMoots along the way.  I will definitely be at our Global Moot in Mexico later this year and I hope to see many of you there!

Scott

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for our next Moodle Academy free webinar “Upgrading a Large Moodle Site”, on Wednesday 21st February at 8:00-9:00 UTC. At this webinar, we will welcome Cameron Ball, Senior Architect at Catalyst IT, a Moodle Premium Certified Partner. Catalyst IT is a multi-region software development company that provides enterprise-level services for open source software.

Upgrading Moodle is a challenge at the best of times. With so many interesting plugins out there (not to mention core itself); any upgrade is sure to have some degree of challenge.

In this presentation Cameron will cover Catalyst’s approach for upgrading a huge Moodle installation from 3.9 to 4.1 covering:

• History of this large site;

• Overall approach for the upgrade;

• Codebase audit strategy and techniques;

• Database audit strategy and techniques;

• Data and configuration migration strategy and techniques

Join us for this highly entertaining session, voted number 1 favourite at MoodleMoot Global 2023, as Cameron takes you on their roller coaster ride of a journey to upgrade the largest Moodle in the Southern Hemisphere.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars’. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.

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by Marie Achour.  

Hi Moodlers,

The Moodle Products team recently completed our 3-monthly increment planning process during which we re-assessed our priorities and formalised our delivery plans for the quarter ahead, as well as reviewed our longer-term roadmap.

Our goals for the quarter are aligned with Moodle's Product Vision which is focused on empowering our users to unlock their creativity, facilitate collaboration and optimise their learning & business outcomes.

For Moodle LMS, this means that we will be aiming to:

1. Complete the designs for our new AI Subsystem which will power Moodle’s AI capabilities in the future, with immediate focus on enabling AI-generated content creation and launching embedded tools to support learners.

2. Build our new SMS Subsystem which will enable the enriching of the notifications functionality in Moodle, helping educators and their learners collaborate more effectively and stay informed of key events that impact their learning outcomes.

3. Finalise the changes to our activity icons, with a new colour palette and some new designs that will make it easier for students to easily identify what they are working on.

4. Deliver our new course subsection functionality, providing more flexibility on how courses can be structured in Moodle to make them easier to navigate and provide more options for how content can be presented.

5. Complete the integration of the ‘Ordering Question Type’ plugin into Moodle core, as it is one of our most popular plugins it’s no surprise that this project was chosen by the Moodle User Association.

6. And last but certainly not least, support the release of Moodle LMS 4.4 scheduled for the 22nd of April. 

For Moodle Workplace, this means we will be focused on:

1. Delivering our new Course Catalogue feature, bringing self-directed learning capability to our solution for the first time!

2. Passing our WACG AA accessibility accreditation, certifying Moodle Workplace as best in class against accessibility standards (also for the first time).

Our community developers should also expect to see further developments in support of our ongoing commitment to modernise our software:

1. Updates to the Task API: we will be completing technical enhancements that will make it easier for administrators to manage their sites in the case of task failures and create the foundation for further technical modernisation in the future.

2. Enhancements to the LTI framework: creating more opportunities to leverage the power of this common standard in Moodle.

3. Changes to our Web services & Bootstrap: please watch the videos below for excellent summaries of the work we will be progressing in this space.

4. Focus on Plugin reviews: each of our teams will dedicate time this quarter to review plugins submitted by our community, keep an eye out for feedback and a sharp drop in the queue!

Webservices

Bootstrap

To find out more about these upcoming improvements and to see what we have planned long term, please check out our Public Roadmap. From there, you can follow the links to the Tracker issues for even more details.

Until next increment!

The Moodle Products Team

by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for our next Moodle Academy webinar “Student partnership in assessment”, on Wednesday 7th February at 11:00-12:00 UTC, which is free to attend. At this webinar, we will welcome Rob Lowney, Senior Learning Technologist at Dublin City University.

Involving students as partners in the assessment process helps develop assessment literacy, support student engagement, and recognises students’ agency and their being experts in their own learning. Moreover, it helps support academic integrity and universal design for learning. Technology can play a key role in facilitating assessment partnership between educators and students. This webinar will share the experiences of Dublin City University (DCU) in utilising core and third-party Moodle tools to support assessment partnership, and encourage other educators to adopt these approaches into their own practice.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars’. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.

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by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for this free webinar “Improving Moodle through UX research and data analysis” on Thursday 25th January at 10:00-11:00 UTC. At this session, we will welcome Eliot Hoving and Stuart Lamour at UCL.

UCL Moodle is one of the biggest Moodle installations in Europe. It provides an essential arena for the teaching and learning of UCL’s 51,000 students and 16,000 staff. It is also an incredibly complex Moodle that combines third party cloud infrastructure, third party development, around 200 plugins, some local and some from the community, and internal Agile based development.

In order to upgrade from Moodle 3.11 to Moodle 4.2 in 2023, the central Moodle team engaged in a process of UX and data-led discovery and analysis to re-design its landing page, dashboard, and identify areas for future course format and plugin development. Many of the results were surprising and revealed the importance of continually engaging with end users when trying to evaluate and roadmap Moodle development.

In this webinar, our invited speakers will outline the methods of UX and data analysis used at UCL and the results. They will further show how these methods can be adapted at other institutions looking to improve their Moodle.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars’. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.

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