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•  All 2022 topics will now appear in the past view.
  

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• 17 March 2023

•  Updates have been made to Feedback Fruits:
  
  • The text editor in the Instructions section has been improved, to make styling and formatting text easier
  • The profile picture of the person who added Instructions has been replaced with an icon, to reduce confusion when the person who created the assessment is not teaching the topic.
  • You can now switch between different cameras and microphones when recording video/audio.
    

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• Collaborate has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• Updates have been made to Feedback Fruits:
  • Any time enrolments or groups are changed in Canvas, the groups in FeedbackFruits will update in real-time.
  • You will now be asked to confirm when you try to delete a step in an assignment, in case you have done so by accident.
  • You will now receive a notification if the file you are uploading fails because of an unreliable internet connection.

•  Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• Collaborate has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• Feedback Fruits has been updated with the following features:
  • You can now add optional grade adjustments in the grading module
  • The timing interface has been improved for teachers. Grant more time to students by clicking on 'Add x minutes', setting a custom deadline, or by granting an extension to specific students.
    
  • Students have a better view of how much time they have left to complete each step in an assignment.
  
  For further information, visit the Feedback Fruits website.
  

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.
• Improvements to the help desk role, so the Student Help Desk can properly access the glossary activity.
  
• A new role has been created for the Student Finance team
• Updates to the footer
  

• Collaborate has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• The contact number for FLO Student Support at the bottom of every page has been updated from '1300 354 633 (option 3)'  to 'Phone: 1300 354 633 (option 2)'
• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

• Improved naming of video downloads in Collaborate.
  

• Longer assignment rubrics now display correctly

• Updates were made overnight to Moodle:
  • Improvements have been made to the Subtopic activity, to improve issues with the Academic Integrity quiz.
  • If students have a group override that changes their due date, the correct date will now appear in the calendar.
  • The correct icon now displays when a URL resource links to another part of FLO. 
  • Access to FLO sites now ends 730 days after teaching finishes.
  • General bug fixes and performance improvements, mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues.

• Updates were made overnight to Collaborate:
  • Session engagement insights will now only refresh when the data in the panel updates, and will do so a little more elegantly than before.

Mahara and Moodle have been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

Collaborate has been updated with the following features:

• You can now pause breakout groups. This will allow you to bring everyone back to the main room, and then send everyone back to the same breakout groups with one click.
• When participants return to the main room, their microphones will be automatically muted.
• It is currently possible to anonymise the names of attendees in a recording. From now on names are now also anonymised when an attendee is mentioned (using @) in the chat by another attendee.

Note: This feature is in beta and is not supported. Do not use it for teaching.

Collaborate is in the process of introducing a new video and audio service that will underpin Collaborate, called Amazon Chime. This will provide faster and better audio and video, but will not change the interface or usability of Collaborate.

Chime is currently in beta, but it is available now for anyone who wishes to take a look. If you wish to try it, please be aware that the following features are not yet available:

• Polling
• Breakout groups
• Session Engagement Insights
• Joining the session by phone dial-in
• The pointer does not appear in recordings
• Large scale sessions (more than 250 attendees)
• Accessibility requirements (including captioning)

For more information, visit the Collaborate's information page

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.
• In Collaborate, students can now download shared files, or annotations made using the whiteboard. Files shared using the Share Application/Screen feature can not be downloaded.
  

Engagement insights are now available inside Collaborate sessions. These insights make help you assess what has the biggest impact on making a session participative.

In the first version of this tool, Moderators can see the number of hands raised and the number of messages sent.

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues.
• Dialogue tool: the issue preventing anyone from downloading attachments has been fixed.
  

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.
• Accessibility and formatting improvements were made to improve usability.
  

• End dates are no longer required
  
• Recurring bookings can be made for sessions using webinar mode
  

As more than half of University topics are now using the starter site, lecture recordings will now start publishing in locations that align with the starter site template. Week 1 videos will appear in module 4, week 2 videos will appear in module 5, and so on.

For those not using the starter site, your lectures will now appear in the wrong location and you will need to move them to their correct week. We apologise for the inconvenience this causes, but this option causes the least inconvenience across the university.

Minor changes have been made to Moodle

• Accessibility improvements
• The line between activities has been removed, as it was too similar used to the headings in the starter site.
• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.

Mahara has been upgraded to version 21.10. It contains bug fixes, minor changes and accessibility improvements that do not substantially affect Mahara’s usage.

New features have been added to Kaltura (My Media).

• Create interactive video quizzes, with grades that can feed back to the gradebook.
• Add hotspots to videos, where you can add comments and links to other resources
• Record videos inside your browser using the Express Capture mode. This is an additional way of recording video; the Desktop recorder and Camtasia remain available

New activities and resources have been added to FLO

• Add the results of interactive videos to gradebook using the Kaltura video quiz activity
• Display a video as a standalone resource using the Video resource

FLO-specific resources aren’t ready yet, but external resources are available:

• Interactive video quiz
• Hotspots
• Express capture

• A new quiz question type has been added - the All or nothing question. It is similar to a multiple-choice question with more than one correct answer, except students must choose answers that correspond exactly with the correct answers defined in the question to receive a mark. Partial marks are not awarded.
  
• The bug accessing the single view in the gradebook has been fixed
  
• Behind-the-scenes bug fixes and performance improvements.
  

Moodle will be upgraded from version 3.9 to 3.11, and will gain the following features:

Activity dates

• Dates will show for all activities where dates are enabled. This will be the default setting for all activities going forward and eLearning teams will retrospectively apply this setting to all existing activities over the next few weeks.
  

Activity completion

• Activity completion information will now appear underneath an activity, instead of to the right of it.
• Quizzes can be marked as completed based on the number of attempts made (e.g. if you want students to complete a quiz multiple times over a semester to demonstrate learning)
  
• The progress bar will colour incomplete tasks differently if students can mark them as manually completed.
  

H5P

• Content can be unlisted, to prevent others from seeing it
  
• Download and replace files in the content bank
• The content bank will now show you how often your content is used
  

Quiz

• The quiz timer will remain at the top of the page if you scroll down, meaning students always know how much time they have left.
  
• Essay questions can have word limits applied or file size upload limits
  

To accommodate these changes, FLO will be unavailable between 6 pm Monday December 13 and 9 am Tuesday 14 December.

Access to topics will now end 450 days after teaching finishes (it's currently 365 days). This is part of a larger project to extend access to topics for a longer timeframe.

This will first affect topics taught in the second half of 2020, and there will be a small number of non-semester topics where access has recently expired but will be reinstated for a limited period of time.

• Added a link to the student timetable
  
• Removed the VPN link shown to topic coordinators as it is no longer required
• Made changes behind the scenes to the Topic info link so we can switch to the new handbook page when it goes live
  

• Deleting a collection now deletes all of the pages within that collection (previously you had to delete each page in the collection individually)
• You can now remove yourself from a collection that has been shared with you. The person who has shared the portfolio will be notified, and you are given the opportunity to write a message for that person letting them know why.
• When you remove someone's access to a portfolio you've created, that person will be notified. You are given the opportunity to write a message for that person letting them know why
• You can now choose which portfolios appear in the Latest changes I can view block.
  

• Moodle has been updated with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements. The changes were mostly related to behind-the-scenes issues so you shouldn't notice any changes.
  

• Improvements have been made to the extension request tool
• A new calendar picker has been added to more easily select dates
• The tool now separates requests less than 3 days and requests over 3 days
• Requests less than three days can now be approved in bulk