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You will find a nice overview of the key new features, broken down in a friendly way for tutors and course administrators on the Moodle.org webiste website new features page.
For a detailed look at the changes to Moodle please see the Moodle 3.1 Release notes on the Moodle.org official website.
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New Moodle Assignment grading interface (annonotate assignments online)Comptency
- New Turnitin Assignment grading interface (Feedback Studio replaces GradeMark, with similar functionality, but the menu items now appear to the right).
Competency based frameworks (these are set up centrally so please contact Digital Edcuation)
Pinned forums discussion topics (to keep important topics at the top)
- Staff can check the ‘pinned’ checkbox when adding/editing a post and these will appear before all the other posts at the top of the discussion forum, with a pin icon alongside the title.
Other new features/ plugins
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