The newest Moodle update at UP has a few nifty tricks. One of the best is the ability for instructors to specify what types of students are allowed to turn in to a Moodle assignment. Want to make sure students give you a Word doc so you can use Track Changes? Make it so. Or perhaps you want to use Moodle’s built-in PDF viewer and annotator to grade easily online. Enforce PDF only uploads with an iron fist of justice. Check it out:
Teachers can limit the file types that students are allowed to upload to an assignment submission. This is helpful to ensure that students are turning in a file that is appropriate for the assignment task (for example, if you want students to submit an image file instead of a Photoshop project file) or to accommodate a teacher’s grading workflow (for example, specifying Word documents so that track changes can be used, or PDFs so that submissions can be easily annotated)
- Read More at: UP Moodle User Guides