New Features in Moodle 3.11

When a time limit is applied to a quiz, students will see a timer while completing it. Previously this timer stayed at the top of the page above all of the questions.  

Now, the timer stays on the screen as the student scrolls down the page.

This ensures the time remaining to complete the quiz remains in view at all times. Students will no longer need to keep getting distracted by going to the top of the page to check the time remaining. 

Instructors can add quiz overrides to provide extensions to certain students. User overrides create extensions for individual students, group overrides create extensions for groups within Moodle.  

The number of quiz overrides will now be displayed on the quiz main page. This allows instructors to see how many extensions have been provided previously. 

When creating quiz questions, each question type will have specific settings underneath the text field.  

The question settings for most question types will now be saved so that the next time the same type of question is being set up, it will automatically select the previous preferences. This saves instructors time while setting up large amounts of new quiz questions. 

This feature works for the following question types: 

• Multiple choice 
• Short answer 
• Drag and drop into text 
• Drag and drop onto image 
• Drag and drop markers 
• Matching 
• Select missing words 
• Numerical 
• Essay 

Aside from the other Activity Details and Completion improvements as part of the Moodle 3.11 Upgrade, there is a quiz-exclusive completion feature. 

Quiz can now track completion depending on whether each student made a specific number of attempts, allowing instructors to see which students have yet to complete the required number of attempts on a quiz. 

To enable this: 

1. When creating a quiz activity, open the ‘Activity Completion’ settings 
   

2. Select ‘Show activity as complete when conditions are met’ from the ‘Completion Tracking’ dropdown’ 
   

3. Tick the ‘Require attempts’ checkbox and adjust minimum number of attempts if necessary 
   

4. Click ‘Save and display’ or ‘Save and return to course’ once finished 
   

New options in the course settings allow staff to automatically show activity details on the course main page:

• Dates such as submission start and due dates
• Activity completion tasks

These options can be enabled separately and will only be displayed on activities that have dates or completion requirements. Enabling this may improve the display of required tasks and progress through a course.

How to enable/disable this

This feature can be enabled/disabled in the course settings at any time.

The following steps show how to enable each of these options, the same settings can be set to 'No' to disable them.

1. On the course main page, scroll down until you see the 'Settings' block on the left column of the course and click 'Edit settings'
   
    
2. In the 'Appearance' section, set 'Show activity dates' to 'yes' if you want to show dates on the course main page
   
    
3. In the 'Completion Tracking' section, set 'Show activity completion conditions' if you want to show completion requirements on the course main page. The 'Enable completion tracking' option must be enabled before this 'Show activity completion conditions' option becomes available.
   

The 'Students can manually mark the activity as completed'  activity completion option now displays as a 'Mark as done' button which students can use to easily mark activities as completed. Once marked, the button changes to a green 'Done' button.

This button works well with 'Show activity details' and can be displayed on the course main page.

How to use this

Activity completion must be set up on the course, the 'Mark as done' button will appear for all activities that you have chosen to have the activity completion requirement of  'Students can manually mark the activity as completed'.

More details on activity completion may be found on our Activity completion page.

The 'Activity Completion' report is an existing feature that provides details on how students are completing content within the course when using activity completion. 

Additional filters have been added to the report to allow filtering and ordering based on specific types of content in the course.

How to use this

The 'Activity completion' report is only available if you have an activity completion set up in the course. To view the report:

1. In the course, go to the settings block and expand the 'Reports' section. Click 'Activity completion'
   
2. Use the filter dropdowns on top of the page to filter the report

Staff developing content within the H5P content bank can now: 

• Download their H5P content to reuse in other areas 

• Unlist their H5P content so other users cannot see it. This is typically used when developing content so it is not released by accident 

To use this: 

1. In the course open the Content bank by going to the ‘Navigation’ block, expanding ‘Site pages’ and clicking ‘Content bank’ 
   

2. Click on an H5P content to open it 

3. Click the cog icon toward the top right and select a management option. The ‘Download’ and ‘Make unlisted’ options will appear here.  

Once content is unlisted, the ‘Make public’ button will become available in the cog menu to allow other users to see the content. 

Videos embedded within Moodle will not have a playback speed option within the video players. 

Users can click the option to speed up or slow down a video anytime when playing it. 

Horizontal separator lines will appear between activities within the course if either of the ‘Show activity details’ (See activity completion changes above) options are enabled. 

• 'Show activity completion conditions' 

• 'Show activity dates' 

These lines provide explicit grouping for activity details so they are not mistaken for the wrong activity 

The folder resource is used to group together content for students to view or download. 

Generally, files will be downloaded when a student clicks on them in the folder, regardless of whether they can be played directly in the browser or not 

A new option is available when setting up the folder, which allows staff to specify whether they want image and HTML files to be displayed straight in the browser or downloaded as a file when students click on it. 

This allows the folder to be used as a downloadable gallery for image and HTML files 

1. Add or edit a ‘Folder’ resource in the course 

2. In the settings, turn ‘Force download of files’ off if you want students to view image and HTML files in the browser. Leave it on if you want them to download files when clicking on it