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by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Happy new year and welcome to our 4th edition of Showcase Shorts. Despite the holiday period in play in most of our MoodleHQ team locations, we have made great progress during the last few weeks in ... [More] delivering our product strategy. Our plans for 2023 and beyond will see the development of Moodle's product portfolio focus on 'Improving our User Experience and Flow' and 'Evolving our Technology'. Improving our user experience and flow​ This sprint, we progressed a number of key initiatives under this umbrella which will come to fruition as part of the Moodle LMS 4.2 Release, scheduled for late April 2023. You can find out more about expected changes to Course Hierarchy, including indentation and activity formatting, which have been informed by a thorough discovery process and supported by key members of the community by watching this ‘Showcase Short’.Course Hierarchy Improvements We are also continuing our work on improving the Gradebook look and feel, with progress made during our last sprint demonstrated in this video. Gradebook 4.2 DeliverablesFinally, we have further progressed work on Bulk Editing for courses and activities, a project proudly supported by the Moodle Users Association, which you can see in this short edit. Bulk Editing 4.2 DeliverablesEvolving our technology This sprint, we continued our focus on integrations with progress made towards enhancing our messaging experience through the introduction of an integration with Matrix and further improvements to our integration with TinyMCE. You can find out more about progress on these pieces of work by watching this video.Matrix & TinyMCE Integrations Recently completed research, conducted with our users and Moodle Partners, will inform the prioritisation of our integration efforts moving forward. To see a summary of the research findings, please watch this ‘Showcase Short’ presented by Carles Aguiló, our Technical Partnerships Manager.Integrations User Research Work also continues on our MoodleNet, Mobile Applications and MoodleCloud offerings which we will share with you in our next ‘Showcase Shorts’ editions. More broadly, our strategy at Moodle will always include a continued focus on engagement with you, our Community! In this short video, you can see the latest developments with enhancements to our Moodle Academy and Moodle.org sites.Moodle Academy & moodle.org Site Updates And finally, before we leave you, we would like to congratulate the Moodle Workplace team on their most recent release, which you can find out more about in this note. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Happy new year and welcome to our 4th edition of Showcase Shorts. Despite the holiday period in play in most of our MoodleHQ team locations, we have made great progress during the last few weeks in ... [More] delivering our product strategy. Our plans for 2023 and beyond will see the development of Moodle's product portfolio focus on 'Improving our User Experience and Flow' and 'Evolving our Technology'. Improving our user experience and flow​ This sprint, we progressed a number of key initiatives under this umbrella which will come to fruition as part of the Moodle LMS 4.2 Release, scheduled for late April 2023. You can find out more about expected changes to Course Hierarchy, including indentation and activity formatting, which have been informed by a thorough discovery process and supported by key members of the community by watching this ‘Showcase Short’.Course Hierarchy Improvements We are also continuing our work on improving the Gradebook look and feel, with progress made during our last sprint demonstrated in this video. Gradebook 4.2 DeliverablesFinally, we have further progressed work on Bulk Editing for courses and activities, a project proudly supported by the Moodle Users Association, which you can see in this short edit. Bulk Editing 4.2 DeliverablesEvolving our technology This sprint, we continued our focus on integrations with progress made towards enhancing our messaging experience through the introduction of an integration with Matrix and further improvements to our integration with TinyMCE. You can find out more about progress on these pieces of work by watching this video.Matrix & TinyMCE Integrations Recently completed research, conducted with our users and Moodle Partners, will inform the prioritisation of our integration efforts moving forward. To see a summary of the research findings, please watch this ‘Showcase Short’ presented by Carles Aguiló, our Technical Partnerships Manager.Integrations User Research Work also continues on our MoodleNet, Mobile Applications and MoodleCloud offerings which we will share with you in our next ‘Showcase Shorts’ editions. More broadly, our strategy at Moodle will always include a continued focus on engagement with you, our Community! In this short video, you can see the latest developments with enhancements to our Moodle Academy and Moodle.org sites.Moodle Academy & moodle.org Site Updates And finally, before we leave you, we would like to congratulate the Moodle Workplace team on their most recent release, which you can find out more about in this note. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Happy new year and welcome to our 4th edition of Showcase Shorts. Despite the holiday period in play in most of our MoodleHQ team locations, we have made great progress during the last few weeks in ... [More] delivering our product strategy. Our plans for 2023 and beyond will see the development of Moodle's product portfolio focus on 'Improving our User Experience and Flow' and 'Evolving our Technology'. Improving our user experience and flow​ This sprint, we progressed a number of key initiatives under this umbrella which will come to fruition as part of the Moodle LMS 4.2 Release, scheduled for late April 2023. You can find out more about expected changes to Course Hierarchy, including indentation and activity formatting, which have been informed by a thorough discovery process and supported by key members of the community by watching this ‘Showcase Short’.Course Hierarchy Improvements We are also continuing our work on improving the Gradebook look and feel, with progress made during our last sprint demonstrated in this video. Gradebook 4.2 DeliverablesFinally, we have further progressed work on Bulk Editing for courses and activities, a project proudly supported by the Moodle Users Association, which you can see in this short edit. Bulk Editing 4.2 DeliverablesEvolving our technology This sprint, we continued our focus on integrations with progress made towards enhancing our messaging experience through the introduction of an integration with Matrix and further improvements to our integration with TinyMCE. You can find out more about progress on these pieces of work by watching this video.Matrix & TinyMCE Integrations Recently completed research, conducted with our users and Moodle Partners, will inform the prioritisation of our integration efforts moving forward. To see a summary of the research findings, please watch this ‘Showcase Short’ presented by Carles Aguiló, our Technical Partnerships Manager.Integrations User Research Work also continues on our MoodleNet, Mobile Applications and MoodleCloud offerings which we will share with you in our next ‘Showcase Shorts’ editions. More broadly, our strategy at Moodle will always include a continued focus on engagement with you, our Community! In this short video, you can see the latest developments with enhancements to our Moodle Academy and Moodle.org sites.Moodle Academy & moodle.org Site Updates And finally, before we leave you, we would like to congratulate the Moodle Workplace team on their most recent release, which you can find out more about in this note. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Happy new year and welcome to our 4th edition of Showcase Shorts. Despite the holiday period in play in most of our MoodleHQ team locations, we have made great progress during the last few weeks in ... [More] delivering our product strategy. Our plans for 2023 and beyond will see the development of Moodle's product portfolio focus on 'Improving our User Experience and Flow' and 'Evolving our Technology'. Improving our user experience and flow​ This sprint, we progressed a number of key initiatives under this umbrella which will come to fruition as part of the Moodle LMS 4.2 Release, scheduled for late April 2023. You can find out more about expected changes to Course Hierarchy, including indentation and activity formatting, which have been informed by a thorough discovery process and supported by key members of the community by watching this ‘Showcase Short’.Course Hierarchy Improvements We are also continuing our work on improving the Gradebook look and feel, with progress made during our last sprint demonstrated in this video. Gradebook 4.2 DeliverablesFinally, we have further progressed work on Bulk Editing for courses and activities, a project proudly supported by the Moodle Users Association, which you can see in this short edit. Bulk Editing 4.2 DeliverablesEvolving our technology This sprint, we continued our focus on integrations with progress made towards enhancing our messaging experience through the introduction of an integration with Matrix and further improvements to our integration with TinyMCE. You can find out more about progress on these pieces of work by watching this video.Matrix & TinyMCE Integrations Recently completed research, conducted with our users and Moodle Partners, will inform the prioritisation of our integration efforts moving forward. To see a summary of the research findings, please watch this ‘Showcase Short’ presented by Carles Aguiló, our Technical Partnerships Manager.Integrations User Research Work also continues on our MoodleNet, Mobile Applications and MoodleCloud offerings which we will share with you in our next ‘Showcase Shorts’ editions. More broadly, our strategy at Moodle will always include a continued focus on engagement with you, our Community! In this short video, you can see the latest developments with enhancements to our Moodle Academy and Moodle.org sites.Moodle Academy & moodle.org Site Updates And finally, before we leave you, we would like to congratulate the Moodle Workplace team on their most recent release, which you can find out more about in this note. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members, Happy new year and welcome to our 4th edition of Showcase Shorts. Despite the holiday period in play in most of our MoodleHQ team locations, we have made great progress during the last few weeks in ... [More] delivering our product strategy. Our plans for 2023 and beyond will see the development of Moodle's product portfolio focus on 'Improving our User Experience and Flow' and 'Evolving our Technology'. Improving our user experience and flow​ This sprint, we progressed a number of key initiatives under this umbrella which will come to fruition as part of the Moodle LMS 4.2 Release, scheduled for late April 2023. You can find out more about expected changes to Course Hierarchy, including indentation and activity formatting, which have been informed by a thorough discovery process and supported by key members of the community by watching this ‘Showcase Short’.Course Hierarchy Improvements We are also continuing our work on improving the Gradebook look and feel, with progress made during our last sprint demonstrated in this video. Gradebook 4.2 DeliverablesFinally, we have further progressed work on Bulk Editing for courses and activities, a project proudly supported by the Moodle Users Association, which you can see in this short edit. Bulk Editing 4.2 DeliverablesEvolving our technology This sprint, we continued our focus on integrations with progress made towards enhancing our messaging experience through the introduction of an integration with Matrix and further improvements to our integration with TinyMCE. You can find out more about progress on these pieces of work by watching this video.Matrix & TinyMCE Integrations Recently completed research, conducted with our users and Moodle Partners, will inform the prioritisation of our integration efforts moving forward. To see a summary of the research findings, please watch this ‘Showcase Short’ presented by Carles Aguiló, our Technical Partnerships Manager.Integrations User Research Work also continues on our MoodleNet, Mobile Applications and MoodleCloud offerings which we will share with you in our next ‘Showcase Shorts’ editions. More broadly, our strategy at Moodle will always include a continued focus on engagement with you, our Community! In this short video, you can see the latest developments with enhancements to our Moodle Academy and Moodle.org sites.Moodle Academy & moodle.org Site Updates And finally, before we leave you, we would like to congratulate the Moodle Workplace team on their most recent release, which you can find out more about in this note. Until next sprint! The Moodle Products Team [Less]

by Aurélie Soulier.  Hello Moodlers!Moodle is in the air! As announced on the 2nd January 2023, the 'Share your Moodle love 🧡🎓' competition deadline is fast approaching.We’d like you to show us a Moodle course design that you love. You have until ... [More] Monday 30 January 2023 at 23:59 UTC to share a great course, and we have a prize for the winner and runner-up to be given on 14th February 2023.The winner and runner-up will also get a badge each.This could be a course you are participating in, or one you have designed yourself, that works well for your participants and topic(s).We can’t wait to see great examples of well-designed courses (not just good-looking courses).Head to the Competition Centre to read the rules and submit your Moodle course design, now (you need to enrol in the competition centre and remain enrolled for us to see your entry)!Best wishes and good luck!Aurélie and the Community Sites team [Less]

by Sandra Matz.  Hello Community Members,We are delighted to announce that MoodleMoot Global 2023 will take place on 18-21 September 2023 at the Hotel Barceló Sants in Barcelona, Spain.The pre-conference DevJam and the Moodle Global Partners day will ... [More] be held on Monday 18 September and MoodleMoot Global will run from 19-21 September.More info coming soon! In the meantime, you can register your interest in attending.Best wishes,Sandra & MoodleMoot Global team#MootGlobal23 [Less]

by Sandra Matz.  In a partnership founded in a shared commitment to open, inclusive education, the Moodle Learning Design team in the US worked with UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) to build a Digital Competencies for Literacy Educators ... [More] course that is being distributed to Literacy Educators around the world. In this session, speakers will demonstrate how they worked together to build this course to bridge the digital divide by using core Moodle tools such as Lesson and Database, as well as a mobile-first design philosophy.Join us at this webinar on Friday 27 January at 14:00 UTC to learn more about the practical strategies used to design this Moodle course for low or no bandwidth environments.Note: This webinar is part of the course 'Moodle Academy webinars'. You have to be enrolled in the course to join the webinar.Register for the webinar at Moodle Academy. [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members,The Moodle HQ Product team is proud to announce the launch of our new public roadmap! Although we’ve always had our individual team plans, the Product Leadership team recently took on the challenge of making ... [More] these plans more easily accessible to our Community Members and Contributors. Our key strategic initiatives for 2023 and beyond will see us focus on two key areas.1. Improving our user experience and flow​ The entire user experience from onboarding to daily teaching and learning is being reviewed. We will be addressing the hundreds of issues community members raise with us on the ease of using Moodle day to day whilst rethinking how some of our most popular activities operate to make them more intuitive. 2. Evolving our technology To ensure that Moodle can deliver cutting-edge products and services for the next decade and beyond, we are investing in optimising Moodle's underlying architecture. Expect more modernised solutions, easier integrations and a cleaner, leaner platform that can continue to perform at scale across a distributed internet landscape. You can see the activities we currently have mapped out to drive these initiatives by perusing our detailed roadmap; simply log in to Tracker and access this board. You can review this document to find out how the roadmap gets created and how you can contribute to its creation. We hope you find this information helpful and look forward to your feedback on it. Thank you, The Moodle Products Leadership Team [Less]

by Marie Achour.  Hello Community Members,Here at Moodle HQ, we strive to continuously improve our ways of working in order to make Moodle LMS, and our other product solutions, the best they can be for our users. In response to feedback from our ... [More] Moodle Partners and many of our larger customers, today, we formally announce some minor changes to the Moodle LMS release cadence. These changes are being made to:  Provide a large portion of our user base more time to prepare for upgrades to their solutions which are often managed during the summer break period in both the southern and northern hemispheres.  Create a buffer allowing updates to our Mobile Application and Moodle Workplace solutions, which are updated within weeks of our latest Moodle LMS release, to be completed before the summer break period, meaning that all key Moodle solutions will be available for our users in time for their upgrades.  Our revised release schedule will be as follows for the calendar years 2023 and 2024: Please note that, as always, these are the target dates for releases. The dates may vary slightly due to unforeseen circumstances. To find out more about our release process, please visit the dedicated Developer documentation available here. We hope that you will find this information useful and look forward to your feedback. Regards, The Moodle Products Team [Less]