eThink Education Presents Moodle 3.2 Upgrades: New Theme, Activity Enhancements, User Tours

eThink Education,a certified Moodle Partner, announces that the new features and fixes of Moodle3.2—including notable improvements to the user interface with the addition ofBoost, Moodle’s new fully responsive theme, and multiple activity enhancements—arenow becoming available to clients during scheduled upgrades.

Moodle’s previous update, the highly anticipated Moodle 3.1,included many new user-requested features and fixes such as support for competency-basededucation, enhancements to several activities, easy retrieval of deleted files,improved tagging and course editing, and expanded functionality within theMoodle mobile app.

Moodle 3.2 builds off the notable improvements of itspredecessor with additional improvements to the Moodle mobile app, userinterface, and various activities, and with helpful additions to the coretheme.

The most visible feature of Moodle 3.2 is Boost, Moodle’snew default theme. Boost is a modern, fully responsive theme, allowing for easycustomization. Thus, you can easily tweak the look and feel of your Moodle siteto match your brand by including logos, brand colors, and making further editswith simple SCSS changes. Other notable Boost features are the new collapsiblenavigation drawer and the gear menu, which both allow for easier navigation anda cleaner, more compact user interface.

The User Tour feature, now available within the core theme,creates a customizable walk-through with overlay to guide users through theMoodle interface. This tool is perfect for introducing new users to Moodle,pointing out new features, introducing a specific course, or directing users toan important piece of the dashboard.

Improvements have also been made to various activities,including Choice, Forum, and Assignment. One major change to the Choice moduleis the ability for an instructor to make a choice for a student. Also, the coreForums module now includes a “discussion-locking” setting that can lock a forumafter a designated period of inactivity. These new features, among otheractivity enhancements, continue to make Moodle more robust and flexible inresponse to user-requested features.

“eThink prides itself on ensuring that our clients are usingcurrent and up-to-date Moodle technology to ensure maximum adoption andlearning success,” said Brian Carlson, CEO and co-founder of eThink Education.“We are excited to share the new Moodle 3.2 features with our clients so theymay utilize and enjoy them within their own Moodle environments.”

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eThink Education is a certified Moodle Partner providingimplementation, cloud hosting, integration, and management services for theopen-source learning management system (LMS). Open-source Moodle is the mostwidely used LMS in the world. When implemented and managed by experts, Moodleis an extremely dynamic platform capable of surpassing the functionality ofcompeting systems. eThink’s Moodle cloud hosting services offer unrivaledperformance and exceptional value. For more information, visit eThinkEducation.com.