If you have any questions about these new Moodle features please contact Digital Education by email servicedesk@ucl.ac.uk or on 020 7679 5000 (Ext: 25000 within UCL).
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There is now a block in Moodle, available to everyone with Tutor or Course Administrator access rights on a course. This means you are able to take control of your own enrolments via Portico, without needing to go through the e-Learning Environments (ELE) teamDigital Education team. Existing Portico mappings have been preserved and will be seen by course tutors and administrators in the new block which is viewable when editing is turned on.
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Due to a change when in Moodle 2.4 all students will receive notifications when any feedback is given in a Moodle assignment, even if it was not their work that was marked. This has caused a number of issues and so E-Learning Environments decided the Digital Education team decided to turn off the default setting that mail notifications are sent.
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July 2013
Bulk Enrolment Block
Course admins and tutors can now bulk upload students into their Moodle course using just their student's UCL email address or UCL userids.
See the Bulk Enrolment block miniguide
June 2013
New Features
- Add an activity / resource being combined
- Drag and drop files and edit titles on the page
- New Moodle assignments
- Offline marking
- Conditional activity, restricted by user details.
- Add or remove topics from the page
- Group access to topics
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