{"id":14853,"date":"2014-05-01T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=14853"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:18","slug":"new-features-coming-culearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2014\/new-features-coming-culearn\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out cuLearn&#8217;s new features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Check out cuLearn&#8217;s new features\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>On Saturday, May 3, cuLearn was upgraded from Moodle version 2.4 to version 2.6.2. These annual upgrades are meant to continually improve the system, by addressing issues like speed, bug fixes and adding new features. The overall look and feel is very similar to version 2.4, only with a modernized look and a simplified, more intuitive interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some enhancements include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>better grading features;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>improved course management;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>improved text editor and file management;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>improved assignments, including marking workflow and allocation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the ability to edit course activities and resources more easily;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and a better responsive design.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For screenshots and a complete list of new features, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/culearnsupport\/culearn-updates\">cuLearn updates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the key strengths of cuLearn is its extensibility through plugins that add extra functionality, integrations with other applications, and customization of the user interface. The EDC welcomes suggestions for future plugins to be added to cuLearn. The LMS steering committee evaluates and selects which plugins should be added. To learn more about the LMS steering committee and to suggest new feature requests, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/culearnsupport\/lmsag\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 3, cuLearn was upgraded from Moodle version 2.4 to version 2.6.2. These annual upgrades are meant to continually improve the system, by addressing issues like speed, bug fixes and adding new features. The overall look and feel is very similar to version 2.4, only with a modernized look and a simplified, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40719,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions\/40719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}