This guide covers:

• Advanced Search
• Collapse All / Expand All Topics
• New messaging interface
• Ability to provide audio feedback for assignments
• Easily find duplicated items
• Hide yourself from the online users block
• Hide page last modified dates
• More efficient user management
• Quiz improvements: Filter questions by tag, Essay questions, Drag and drop markers, Quiz statistics report
• Ability to turn off generation of PDFs when marking assignment submissions
• Improved tabbed formats
• Activity planner Enhancements
• Bulk course rollover – single email instead of multiple individual messages
• Updates to the Talis Aspire Reading List
• New feature added to H5P plugin
• Improvements to bulk actions
• Improvements to Q-Review
• Fix issues with Kaltura (QMplus Media) Express Capture
• Level Up – Gamification plugin
• Digital Accessibility – Sensus Access Moodle plugin
• Timed forum posts – set the display period for a forum post

Note: there are some outstanding problems that will be resolved via hot fixes or in the January 2020 release:

• Erroneous message on Participants’ screen ‘Are you sure you want ot leave this Page?’
• Sub pages incompatible with Stealth Mode
• Assessment Info tab – various
• Formatting issues – various
• Bulk Rollover – some courses show as rolled over when they aren’t

More details on these issues

1. Users can use keywords to search for discussions, books or lecture notes.
2. User can use Filters to narrow down the search results. (The Title option should only be used if you know the exact title of the activity, resource or course.)
3. Users can only search the content that they have access to.

1. To Collapse All: Press the Alt key on your keyboard and click on any already expanded topic / section in your course to collapse all the topics / sections
2. To Expand All: Press Alt key on your keyboard and click on any already collapsed topic / section in your course to expand all the topics / sections

1. Click the Message icon to toggle in or toggle out of the messaging window
2. Click the Gear icon to personalise your messaging preferences (e.g mute or unmute)
3. Group conversations
4. Private conversations
5. Search box can be used to search discussions
6. Open a discussion for more settings e.g star a conversation, delete or user info etc.

1. Click on Record Audio button
2. Click on Start Recording button in the popup window
3. Click on Stop Recording when ready. You can play your recording. If you are happy with the playback then click on Attach Recording or click Record again
4. Click Save Changes

1. In online users block, click on the Eye icon to hide or show your online status from online users list

1. Go to Page settings. Under Appearance check or un-check “Display last modified date” setting accordingly

1. 1. Questions may be tagged as they are created (as well as from the Question bank). Questions may be searched and filtered by tag in the Question bank and when adding random questions.
   2. Teachers can specify accepted file types for the Quiz Essay question type to limit the type(s) of file students can upload.
   3. The Drag and drop markers question type is easier to edit.
   4. The Quiz statistics report has improved usability

1. Go to Assignment Settings
2. Under “Feedback types”, uncheck the option “Annotate PDF”

1. Reset tab name to default when last section is removed from a tab
2. Improved orientation within section edit menu
3. Shorten tab names to a given length but expand when the tab is open. “Maximum Tab Name Characters” can be set in Course Settings to enable this feature. Default length is set to “0”, which means the Tab Names will not shrink.

1. Ability to “Search” through courses or users has been added 
2. More accurate reporting (generated data is more accurate)
3. Few other changes have been made to make it more user friendly