This summary is in progress and still to be finalised.
-
-
Completely new chat module for synchronous discussions
-
Completely new workshop module for peer grading
-
Completely new system for backup/restore of courses
-
All-new course browser (handles large numbers of courses)
-
Courses and categories can be hidden from students
-
Activities can move any distance with two clicks
-
Topics/weeks can now be moved up and down
-
Pop-up menu to switch between topics/weeks
-
THREE new quiz question types: Numerical, Description and Multianswer (Cloze)
-
Expanded quiz reporting
-
Lots of new languages
-
Languages now have a parent language (for displaying missing strings)
-
Web links can be in pop-up windows
-
Consistent grading scheme throughout all modules (tbd)
-
Better control over peer-grading in forums (tbd)
-
Ability to add text between activities in course display (tbd)
-
Ability to indent activities in course display (tbd)
-
Improved program resources, allowing more variables and control (tbd)
-
Many more improvements and fixes yet to be listed
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
New in Moodle 1.0.9 (29th May, 2003) :
-
-
General
-
-
Various optimisations and significant performance enhancements
-
Several obscure security fixes
-
Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame
-
Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields
-
New format "Plain text format", useful when posting code or HTML.
-
New format "Wiki format", allows Wiki-style tagging in most places
-
New popup allows emoticons/smilies to be inserted by clicking on images
-
Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server
-
Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode (some file problems remain)
-
Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc
-
Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility
-
Started migration of HTML code towards XHTML Transitional
-
Countless other little fixes all over the place
-
-
-
Languages
-
-
10 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian, Polish, Chinese Traditional and French Canadian.
-
Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs
-
Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by something to the url, eg: http://moodle.org/?lang=ru
-
Language menu can be restricted to a subset of languages and even removed.
-
Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs
-
ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack
-
A small but annoying bug was fixed with the web-based language editor on Windows servers that caused language files to grow
-
-
-
Developers
-
-
Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like
-
Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code
-
Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)
-
-
-
Admin
-
-
Some changed options and code in config-dist.php (if upgrading, compare with your current config.php or rebuild your config.php from scratch)
-
Many changes to themes - authors of custom themes should read theme/UPGRADE.txt
-
New moodle.org registration function for security notifications etc
-
Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)
-
User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings
-
Module management: activity modules can now be individually disabled or deleted completely
-
Improvements to the language editing page
-
Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings
-
Cleaner installation procedure.
-
-
-
User management
-
-
New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses
-
New authentication plug-in named "manual", prevents users from creating their own accounts
-
"Forgot Password" routine now uses an email confirmation before resetting password
-
-
-
-
Courses
-
-
Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to students
-
Whole topics/weeks can also now be hidden or shown
-
The list of participants now has some paging, to cope with very large classes
-
Zip/Unzip is now supported by an internal zip library, removing
- the dependence on external programs to do this. This also means that
- zip/unzip now works on Windows.
-
-
-
Assignments
-
-
Assignment submissions can be sorted
-
Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students
-
-
-
Forums
-
-
Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved
-
Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click
-
Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"
-
Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented
-
More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts
-
Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)
-
Better handling of mailouts to prevent the possibility of double copies
- that sometimes happened with very large classes
-
-
-
Workshop Assignment module (not included: available soon as a separate download)
-
-
A very interesting new module contributed by Ray Kingdon,
-
A flexible tool that implements a variety of peer-grading and
- example-setting schemes that involve a whole group in examining
- and grading pieces of work.
-
-
-
Quizzes
-
-
New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)
-
New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)
-
New question type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
- from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)
-
Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats - a beta Blackboard module is included)
-
'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz
-
Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled
-
Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled
-
Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.
-
Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed
-
Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results
-
Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3
-
-
-
Resources
-
-
Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources
-
Plain images are now display centered within a proper web page (not raw).
-
Wiki format added as a new option for Resource pages
-
-
-
Custom Themes
-
-
A number of new styles have been added to all built-in themes. Some of these are ESSENTIAL
- to viewing some of the new features. PLEASE SEE
- theme/UPGRADE.txt
- TO SEE THE CHANGES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO OLDER THEMES.
-
-
Custom themes now have the capability to re-define all the little button graphics.
- There is a new entry in theme/x/config.php ($THEME->custompix) and a new
- optional subdirectory "pix". See the theme cordoroyblue for an example.
A completely new backup system for backup and restore
+ of courses (Thanks, Eloy!)
+
A new workshop module for peer grading (Thanks, Ray!)
+
A new chat module for synchronous discussions
+
All-new course manager to handle very large numbers
+ of courses (tested with 3700)
+
Custom-defined grading scales that can be used throughout
+ a course
+
Performance improvements in many areas
+
+
+
+
+
General
+
+
+
+
+
Clean up of the whole admin menu organisation to make it clearer
+
Categories can be nested and sorted
+
Courses and whole categories can be hidden from students
+
Course descriptions and names can be searched for keywords
+
Improved web caching for stylesheets and images
+
"My courses" display on the home page when logged in.
+
Inclusion of non-linked page to display ALL user pictures at once
+ (see /userpix)
+
The "secureforms" feature now defaults to OFF.
+
Moodle now doesn't care if "magic quotes" is on or off.
+
Images in /pix were rearranged and tidied up
+
HTML email is better formatted for wider compatibility
+
Mail bounces are now sent to the admin user
+
Better cron tasks (less CPU used) and duplicate enrolments are now
+ cleaned
+
User log graphs now work at site-level (showing ALL logs on the site)
+
People with manual accounts can now recover their password
+
Improved system for defining/printing help files for major activity
+ modules
+
Activity modules can now have settings
+
Email addresses are all completely obfuscated (to fool web spiders)
+
There is now an index to the help files
+
+
+
+
+
+
Courses
+
+
+
+
+
Topics/weeks can now be moved up and down
+
Activities can be moved any distance with two clicks
+
Pop-up menu to switch between topics/weeks
+
Teachers can now have their course editing privileges removed
+
Teachers can now manually enrol students if they want to
+
Teacher management is now all combined in one interface
+
When self-enrolling, students are notified and given a chance to cancel
+
Teachers and students see list of "My Courses" on course
+ home pages.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Languages
+
+
+
+
+
Hungarian and Greek have been added,
+ and there are lots of other updates. As usual, the language packs within
+ this release may not be fully completed yet. You can always download
+ the newest language packs from http://moodle.org/download/lang/.
+
Updates and fixes to most languages
+
Languages now have a parent language (for displaying missing strings)
+
Some fixes for locales and time display in several languages
+
es_mx is being phased out in favour of "es" (International
+ Spanish)
+
+
+
+
+
+
Forum
+
+
+
+
+
Forum grading can be either off, used by everyone, or used only by
+ teachers
+
Expanded quiz reporting with modular report plugins
+
Much improved searching, with multiple keywords, paging etc
+
Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules ->
+ Forums
+
After editing a post, user is returned to post in context
+
+
+
+
+
Quiz
+
+
+
+
+
New question type: Embedded Answers (Cloze) - allows text passages
+ with embedded answers
+
New question type: Numerical - allows a range of numerical answers
+ to be entered
+
New question type: Description - not a real question, it allows text/graphics
+ to be inserted anywhere
+
Expanded quiz reporting with modular report plugins
+
New feature for repeat attempts, where each attempt builds on the
+ last
+
If the quiz is closing within the next 24 hours, a small countdown
+ clock is shown in the title bar and alerts warn at ten minutes and zero
+ minutes.
+
Some refactoring to the quiz code to make it easier to extend with
+ new question types
+
+
+
+
+
+
Resources
+
+
+
+
+
Web links can now be in very customisable pop-up windows.
+
Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules ->
+ Resources
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Workshop
+
+
+
+
+
Web links can now be in very customisable pop-up windows.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Some of the more annoying bugs recently fixed
+
+
+
+
+
Moving posts now also moves attachments
+
No more warnings when looking for uploaded files in an empty course
+
Students no longer always get plain-format mail on force-subscribed
+ forums
+
Cookies can no longer interfere with the admin setup during installation
+
Effectively no limit to the number of activities per section
+
Several fixes when dealing with zip files, especially on Windows
+
Admins can now edit accounts created from external databases
+
Session no longer conflicts with other software
+
Excel files now work on non-Intel machines
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
New in Moodle 1.0.9 (29th May, 2003) :
+
+
General
+
+
Various optimisations and significant performance enhancements
+
Several obscure security fixes
+
Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame
+
Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields
+
New format "Plain text format", useful when posting code or HTML.
+
New format "Wiki format", allows Wiki-style tagging in most places
+
New popup allows emoticons/smilies to be inserted by clicking on images
+
Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server
+
Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode (some file problems remain)
+
Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc
+
Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility
+
Started migration of HTML code towards XHTML Transitional
+
Countless other little fixes all over the place
+
+
+
Languages
+
+
10 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian, Polish, Chinese Traditional and French Canadian.
+
Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs
+
Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by something to the url, eg: http://moodle.org/?lang=ru
+
Language menu can be restricted to a subset of languages and even removed.
+
Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs
+
ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack
+
A small but annoying bug was fixed with the web-based language editor on Windows servers that caused language files to grow
+
+
+
Developers
+
+
Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like
+
Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code
+
Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)
+
+
+
Admin
+
+
Some changed options and code in config-dist.php (if upgrading, compare with your current config.php or rebuild your config.php from scratch)
+
Many changes to themes - authors of custom themes should read theme/UPGRADE.txt
+
New moodle.org registration function for security notifications etc
+
Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)
+
User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings
+
Module management: activity modules can now be individually disabled or deleted completely
+
Improvements to the language editing page
+
Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings
+
Cleaner installation procedure.
+
+
+
User management
+
+
New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses
+
New authentication plug-in named "manual", prevents users from creating their own accounts
+
"Forgot Password" routine now uses an email confirmation before resetting password
+
+
+
+
Courses
+
+
Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to students
+
Whole topics/weeks can also now be hidden or shown
+
The list of participants now has some paging, to cope with very large classes
+
Zip/Unzip is now supported by an internal zip library, removing
+ the dependence on external programs to do this. This also means that
+ zip/unzip now works on Windows.
+
+
+
Assignments
+
+
Assignment submissions can be sorted
+
Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students
+
+
+
Forums
+
+
Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved
+
Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click
+
Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"
+
Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented
+
More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts
+
Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)
+
Better handling of mailouts to prevent the possibility of double copies
+ that sometimes happened with very large classes
+
+
+
Workshop Assignment module (not included: available soon as a separate download)
+
+
A very interesting new module contributed by Ray Kingdon,
+
A flexible tool that implements a variety of peer-grading and
+ example-setting schemes that involve a whole group in examining
+ and grading pieces of work.
+
+
+
Quizzes
+
+
New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)
+
New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)
+
New question type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
+ from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)
+
Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats - a beta Blackboard module is included)
+
'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz
+
Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled
+
Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled
+
Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.
+
Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed
+
Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results
+
Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3
+
+
+
Resources
+
+
Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources
+
Plain images are now display centered within a proper web page (not raw).
+
Wiki format added as a new option for Resource pages
+
+
+
Custom Themes
+
+
A number of new styles have been added to all built-in themes. Some of these are ESSENTIAL
+ to viewing some of the new features. PLEASE SEE
+ theme/UPGRADE.txt
+ TO SEE THE CHANGES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO OLDER THEMES.
+
+
Custom themes now have the capability to re-define all the little button graphics.
+ There is a new entry in theme/x/config.php ($THEME->custompix) and a new
+ optional subdirectory "pix". See the theme cordoroyblue for an example.