{"id":5422,"date":"2017-06-06T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/asti\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2017-06-06T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:50:55","slug":"moodle-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/moodle-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0<strong>Wednesday 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July<\/strong>\u00a0the Moodle component of the DLE will be upgraded to its latest version (3.2) to give the University access to the latest feature improvements available, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Targeted support through the use of \u2018User Tours\u2019 or walkthroughs for first time visitors to the site following an upgrade<\/li>\n<li>Recycle bin for retrieval of course elements mistakenly deleted<\/li>\n<li>Assignment feature improvements such as\u00a0on-screen annotation for eSubmission feedback, and downloading a number of selected submissions<\/li>\n<li>Item \u2018tagging\u2019 and enhanced\u00a0searching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A full \u2018what\u2019s new\u2019 breakdown of features and support materials will be available with the upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB: On the day of the upgrade Moodle will be in \u2018Read Only\u2019 mode for the majority of the day, with a short period of unavailability to complete the upgrade.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>This will mean:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All course materials will be viewable but NOT editable<\/li>\n<li>Student submitted assignments will be\u00a0unavailable\u00a0but can be downloaded in advance (<a href=\"http:\/\/technologyenhancedlearning.us5.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=dcf6fc4d4f44908292d2a91e8&amp;id=a5e2df6f69&amp;e=410478ea46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see guide here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Student participation in Moodle activities such as forums, quizzes and assignments will be\u00a0unavailable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any queries relating to this essential upgrade work please contact the Service Desk on 01752 (5)88588, or log a query using the University&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technologyenhancedlearning.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=dcf6fc4d4f44908292d2a91e8&amp;id=b5702c8c02&amp;e=410478ea46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IT Self Service system<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Wednesday 5th\u00a0July\u00a0the Moodle component of the DLE will be upgraded to its latest version (3.2) to give the University access to the latest feature improvements available, such as: Targeted support through the use of \u2018User Tours\u2019 or walkthroughs for first time visitors to the site following an upgrade Recycle bin for retrieval of course elements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle","category-tel-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVSkC-1ps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}