IT Center Changes

RWTHmoodle has been upgraded to version 4.3. This upgrade includes the following new functions and improvements:

Functions

Course Page (managers):

• “Bulk actions” to select several activities, materials or entire sections at the same time
• duplicate sections with their content

Grader Report (managers):

• new search function allows targeted searches for individual students
• new context menu (three-dot menu) enables various actions

Assignment Activity (managers):

• under “submissions” you can send a message to several students at once, for example to remind them of a missing submission

Quiz Activity (managers):

• Under “results”, you can now reset the quiz attemps of students with the status “never submitted” to “In progress” and thus reopen them

Improvements

Activity Cards:

• the activity cards take up less space on the course page
• reduced size of the icons and inner spacing

Course Page:

• activities that can be manually marked as completed (default condition) will retain the clickable field “Mark as completed”
• other completion conditions are moved to a drop-down menu “To do”
• several completion conditions are combined which saves space and ensures a more uniform page layout
• managers will see a “Completion” drop-down menu that displays the completion conditions
• access restrictions for an activity are now highlighted more clearly
• default: only one restriction is displayed, several restrictions can be expanded via the “Show more” drop-down menu
• managers can adjust the access restrictions directly on the Course page
• managers: activities and materials can now be inserted directly into a section at any point
• managers: you can hide activities and materials via the three-dot menu as before. The entry has been renamed “Availability”
• managers: the status of hidden activities can also be changed directly on the Course Page via the “Hidden from students” label

Course Index:

• icon and title of an activity so that the elements are easier to find
• lists text and media areas
• all sections can be expanded or collapsed
• managers will find a new field “Title in course index” in the settings of a text and media area

new text editor:

• TinyMCE replaces the previous editor “Atto”

Grader Report (managers):

• the button for saving changes is now always visible and scrolls along
• you can collapse and expand grade categories that are not required using the arrow icons
• the icons in the new “Status” column indicate whether a grade itom or a grade category is hidden or locked
• text lables show the aggregation type and other current settings that have been made for the respective grade
• new context menu (three-dot menu) for enabling various actions
• grade categories and grade items can be added or edited without leaving the page

Question Bank (managers):

• improved filter function allows you to search for and filter specific questions
• the new layout has been aligned with other areas in Moodle to provide a more consistend user experience

Changes based on feedback:

• smaller icons and activity cards so that the course page shows more information at a glance and requires less scrolling
• “My courses” page is now the landing page (instead of “Dashboard”) after logging into the system to get more quickly to the courses
• information on “New activities” and access to EvaSys are now only available on the dashboard
• improvement of the performance

In line with the life cylce of course rooms with connection to RWTHonline, the summer semester 2021 course rooms were deleted on May 2, 2024.