Latest release notes

Moodle 1.7

Expected in September, 2006

Headline features

Unit testing framework

Making it easier for developers to write test code, which should ultimately lead to a more reliable Moodle.

Other improvements

Improvements to some core question types

Matching questions can have extra wrong answers.
Numerical questions can have different answers with different precisions and scores. (Previously this was only supported via GIFT import. Now you can edit questions like this.)
(More improvements to come.)

Moodle 1.6.1+

cvs or latest nightly build to be later released as 1.6.2; this section is work in progress

Bug Fixes

Fixed error when upgrading forum read tracking
Locales from language packs should finally work - please check your configuration variables and empty the locale field

Moodle 1.6.1

20th July, 2006

Bug Fixes

Fixed regression in Turkish locale handling
Authorize and Paypal enrolment plugin cleanup
Fixed serious problem with failing Database restore
Fixed restore of HotPot module containing attempts
Minor Database module fixes
National characters in graphs now work for most languages out of the box
Reviewed and fixed all *nix locale codes in language packs
Fixed problems when using Resources with Blocks on the frontpage
Fixed missing events on the first day of month in calendar
Fixed several problems in Lesson - scores, branch tables, HTML editor issues
Fixed broken intermodule relinking of absolute paths - please do not use course backups from original 1.6
PDF byteserving problems caused by incorrect partial content length solved
Fixed several regressions in handling of multiple groups
Fixed alphabet problems in Glossary
Chameleon theme fixes and enhancements
Fixed all hard coded admin paths
Fixed moving of course sections
Fixed grading of Essays in Quiz
Several Quiz regrading problems solved
Questions are now exported into backupdata directory
Added workaround for problems when editting two quizes in one browser
Lots of other Quiz related bugs fixed - thanks Tim!

Fixed IE unsecure items warning on sites with https login
Improved cookie test on the login page
Potential security issue with unzipping maliciously-crafted zip files fixed
Satinized input parameters in help.php
Calendar view.php now respects forcelogin setting

And lots of other minor fixes worth upgrading

New Features

Enhanced frontpage settings - frontpage can now be different for logged in users, changed category list display
Improved administration page layout
Possibility to change graph font for all locales - moodledata/lang/default.ttf takes precedence over lib/default.ttf
Local language packs may also contain default.ttf
Backported improved lang.php from HEAD
New config.php option $CFG->allowvisiblecoursesinhiddencategories

Known Problems

Broken images in published question categories
Small number of sites reports problems with Quiz upgrade - please always do a full database backup before any upgrade!

Moodle 1.6

19th June, 2006

NOTE: Moodle 1.6 requires PHP 4.3.0 (or PHP 5.1.0) and MySQL 4.1.16 (4.1.12 if you use latin languages only). Here is more info on Upgrading to Moodle 1.6.

New features

Unicode

Moodle is now 100% Unicode, which means any language can be mixed together and an end to a number of problems that different character sets caused us.

Documentation

A new one-stop wiki site for ALL Moodle documentation, including links from Moodle itself

Database module

A new activity module that allows collaborative collection of structured data, useful for many things!

LAMS

Integrated via a course format and an activity module

Blogs

Allows reflection on an ongoing basis. Entries are marked and can be viewed by user, course, group, site etc. Contains first new support for Tags.

Reports

All reports are now centralised under Course reports and Admin reports. New reports can be written as plugins and dropped in very easily. One big new report is the new course-based statistics system from Catalyst.

Questions

A centralized bank of questions with the potential to be (re-)used in a variety of modules.

My Moodle

A dashboard interface that allows an overview for each user of all their courses etc.

Hive integration

This initial integration with Hive allows teachers to upload, browse, search and select resources within the external repository.

Multiple groups

Users can be part of multiple groups within a course

IMS content package resource type

Supports the loading of any content package as a resource, with an optional repository for sharing packages between courses.

An interactive Moodle theme

Multi enrolment

Moodle's enrolment plugins can be used simultaneously on the same site. Also new IMS Enterprise enrolment plugin.

Authorize.net Payment Gateway enrolment plugin

New feature called 'Order Review'. Admins and teachers may accept or deny payments before processing the credit card and they can also refund payments after processing the credit card in 'Payment Management' page. Students may view their order details. Address Verification System (AVS) and Scheduled-Capture support added. For 'Manual-Capture' admins are notified 5 days prior to pending orders expiring.

Moodle 1.5.4

21st May, 2006

(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)

Various fixes

Security

Improved kses cleaning of html SC#204
Prevent unwanted password change here SC#225
Fix for Secunia Advisory SA18267, plus some logging of suspicious activity.
AdoDB tests cleanup after Secunia Advisory SA18267
Fixed $cfg->forceloginforprofiles logic SC#207. Backported from HEAD

General

Various updates/improvements in the the Environmental Check allowing to check if your server suits future Moodle requirements.
Bug 4619. Fixed one DB query not following coding rules.
Bug 4607. Avoid duplication of course shortname on restore.
Fixed one problem with auto-link filters and frames.
Important fixes to muti-byte text handling routines.
Small changes to the installer.
Bug 3853. Some important improvements in the restore of log actions.
Bug 4328. Prevent some warnings in the blocks system.
Bug 4341. Extending multi-lang support to the "jumpto" menu (showed in collapsed mode).
Added rss_get_url() to 1.5 to help support data module
Added support for having a linked tab even if it is currently selected.
RSS Client block: Removed secondary cache. Bug 4625
Email confirmation now includes lastname. Bug 4869
Database connection errors can now be reported to an admin. See $CFG->emailconnectionerrors in config-dist.php.
Metacourses: Fixed a problem with self enrolment in child courses.
Several MySQL v5 compatibility fixes
Avoid listing more than 200 courses in my courses block, and course listing pages.
SCORM: Fixed lesson status skin support
Skype: Added webstatus icon
File uploads: Only create a directory if needed, bug 4659
Admin Block. Fixed bug 4627: Hide "change password" link in admin block if the user is restricted. Credits for report & patch go to Joseph Rezeau.
HTMLArea: Fixed bug 4562. Fix posted by sgarcia.
Fixed bug 4626 - weblib.php: $course object conversion error in "print_footer " function
Messaging: Fixed bug 4621 errors in MySQL v3.23 with message backup.
Introducing Admin->Environment to help users assess installed software prior to the 1.6 upgrade
Course Restore: Now we avoid duplicates. Bug 4607
Assignment: Guests can no longer submit an online assignment. Bug 4604
File Downloads: Fixed problems for slow (dial up) clients, and avoid hogging memory when PHP's output compression is on.
Wiki: Supports initial load of contents from course file area. Bug 3830
Lesson: Now when a teacher edits a page with the "Edit page contents" button and then saves or cancels, s/he gets redirected back to the lesson navigation. This will help to streamline the editing.
Activity Modules Block - bug 4586
Metacourse: Fixes unenrolling bug 4541
File uploads: Fixed bug 4533 - Max upload size at course level ignored.
Enrol/Authorize.net: Added Address Verification System (AVS) support.
Online Users Block: Limit the number of students displayed.
Unicode Support: Typo3 Library updated to newest version.
Course Categories: Fixed courses and subcategories in an invisible category being visible. Bug 4074
Wiki: Fixed a fatal error updating wiki pages.
Added autocomplete=off in form tag to avoid browser autocomplete bug:4423
Password change: Primary administrator password can only be changed by the administraror him/herself.
Enrol/Authorize.net: Some changes:- allow_internal is not need anymore. Shows two option if enrolment key of course is set.- login_https is required for payment pages. My credit card is important. If you haven't a certificate forgot this module. (security)- Expiry date of credit card is more friendly :).
User profile: Fixed bug 4400
Removed old THEME variable.
Added some more CSS hooks for the correctness feedback
Fix bug 4366
Makes autologinguest possible at site level
Micro-increment version number to 2.0.10
Corrected adjustment of relative URLs in <EMBED> tag
Merging from HEAD:Fix for bug 4371 (also SC#199):Now manually created users with admin privileges and force change passwordcannot change their username with impunity.
Fix for bug 4067 - allow user to update assignment when not yet marked
Fix for bug 4314
Fix for bug 4206
Delayed merge from HEAD - If tablelib is going to do fullname voodoo, allow default sort field to be firstname/lastname
Log actions must be strored to DB without &print_log() takes care of it! Bug 3853
Fixes bug 4354
shorten_text() AFTER format properly. See bug 4355
Prevent a warning when params is empty. Bug 4328
Now the section "jumpto" menu (showed in collapse mode), supportsthe multilang filter. Bug 4341
Print performance info if exists and $CFG->perfdebug is enabled.
Fix for bug 4351. New parasmeter for get_record_sql to disableauto-added LIMIT (in case we are using our own)
Solved bug found when trying to backup all users! http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27105
Fixing bug 4345: merging problem when fixing bug 4303
Mimic changes from "Ought to mention the improved assignment grading!"Merged from HEAD
Ought to mention the improved assignment grading!
Fixes bug 4086 spelling mistake
Commenting out gz_handler since it seem to cause problemsmore on http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=34376

Assignment

Fixed bug in "Prevent late submissions", thanks to Samuli, bug 4780

Enrolment

Enrolment: Better explanation of flat file enrolment format. Re-formatted the imporved flat file enorlment description
Auth/LDAP: Better support for ActiveDirectory
Enrol/Authorize.net: PostgreSQL support and some indexes for speed.
Authorize.net: Address Verification System (AVS) support added.
Authorize.net: $CGF->login_https must be ON for payment pages.
Authorize.net: Shows two forms if the enrolment key of the course is set (internal and authorize forms).
Authorize.net: IIS https fix. It doesn't recognize empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) but accepts HTTPS=off.

Forum Module

Bug 4355. Solved one visualisation problem in the page showing the list of forums.
Fixed bug 4360
Fixed bug 4431, affecting site course, added function forum_user_can_view_post in lib.php

Glossary Module

Bug 4543, 4713. Fixed some problems with entries and categories containing more than one word in their title.
Bug 4858. Fixed one problem with formats, not being detected properly.
Bug 4915. Entrylist format now displays the "Send Ratings" button.

Hotpot Module

Add support for HP5 quizzes (including JBC and old JQuiz)
Removed weighting from questiontext in JCloze import
Fixed import of JCloze into quiz module as a MULTIANSWER question
Fixed bug in restoring attempts from backup

Lesson Module

Lesson: $navigation and $grade_value were undefined when lesson was added to site main page
Lesson: Lesson Essay Question Can't be Graded when attempt not finished. Bug 4174
Lesson: Added cancel button. Bug 4216 - cancel button
Lesson: Fixed problem with storing the answerid for numerical questions.
Lesson: Fixed bug 1187

Quiz Module

Fixed bug 4250: Added missing percentages to the grade selector
Fixed bug 4495: Don't apply lateness check when teacher previews
Fixed bug 4544: Incorrect path to exported files in some language packs
Fixed bug 4780: Bug in "Prevent late submissions" setting fixed
Fixed bug 5070: Students can't see quizzes when they are closed
Turned off regrading of quizzes that have the attemptonlast option set
A number of other minor interface fixes
Fixed bug 4319. Thanks to Jaroslav
Fixed bug 4217
Fixed bug 4829
Now we avoid checking for lateness when teacher previews. Bug 4495
Fixed bug 4688
Rounding errors could lead to "Partially correct" for correct answers
Added missing percentages to the grade selector, bug 4250
Avoid error messages in case $quiz->sumgrades is zero, bug 4454
get_actual_response() method for cloze question type contributed by Jean-Michel
Better PostgreSQL support
Now With Nicer Presentation of Questions
Summary text shouldn't be cleaned as only entered by teacher.
Fixed bug 4345. Report performance improvements caused regression with MySQLv3
Now we turn off browser-based autocomplete. Fixes bug 4423 - Short Answer Quiz Q's Saving Form Entries

Resource Module

Solved one problem on restore that was causing some links to become corrupted.
Slightly changes to the delete_instance() function in resources to allow future improvements.
Resource restore: Solved bug when decoding encoded links for resource

Wiki Module

Solved one problem sending double-slashed info to DB.
Bug 3830. Load of initial content from course file area is now allowed.

Moodle 1.5.3

11th November, 2005

(Because this release contains important security fixes, we highly advise that sites using any previous version of Moodle upgrade to this version as soon as possible.)

A few new things

We now have SCORM 1.3 (SCORM 2004) support!
Much improved Assignment grading interface, including "quick grading" options
A new Single-Sign-On API is available

Various fixes

General

Contains warnings when Moodle is used on an PHP configuration known to be insecure
Contains fixes for some recently reported security problems (see security.moodle.org)
Backups now runs a lot faster medium/large installs. Many issues fixed in this area
Listing of directory sizes can be made much faster on Linux/Unix servers, thanks to a performance fix you can enable from Admin->Variables: "path_to_du"
We now log more meaningful IP addresses when the server or the clients are working behind a proxy
Fixed some issues with PHP accelerators
Upgrade scripts have been refined and work much better for PostgreSQL installations
General PostgreSQL port code cleanup
Upgrading to 1.5.3 will fix any legacy Journal to Online Assignment upgrade issues
RSS libraries now support RSS 2.0 categories, see bug 3654
Better accesibilty in file uploads, see bug 3662
Better support for site-wide HTTPS, see bug 3848
We now send away bots (like Googlebot) from that try mangled URLs, see bug 3958
Better DST support for non-logged-in users
Better DST support for repeat events in Calendar
Small fixes to the lesson, choice and grade modules
Minor CSS improvements to formal_white and orangewhite themes
Better pagination in course listing and loglive pages
Fixed an IE-only bug related to HTMLArea content where user-edited tables could float and hide part of the UI.

Authentication

Fixes to change password/forgotten password with external auth
Data fetched from external DB or LDAP is now truncated correctly
Fixed bug 4305 -- better login block behaviour when using secureforms
Better support for utf-8 user data from external auth
LDAP: General fixes covering sync_users script and logging of errors
LDAP: Fixed bug 3141 - Can't update external data with LDAP authentication
LDAP: Fixed bug 3992 - LDAP password including a quote does not work - credits go to Kita
LDAP: Better support for ActiveDirectory.
LDAP: Fixed bug #3594
LDAP: Better handling of multi-source field mapping
LDAP: Fix for using DN as idnumber - thanks fo Jeff Graham - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=28840

Enrolment and metacourses

Metacourses: Prevent normal users to gain access to meta courses via manual enrolment
Metacourses: better support for MySQL v3.23.x
DB: Enrolment lookups now work reliably with Moodle on MySQL and Postgres
DB: Non-MySQL databases work again as external enrolment databases
LDAP: Fixed a wrong call to add_teacher in LDAP plugin.
LDAP: Servers being down or unavailable no longer prevent logins
LDAP: Course auto-creation works again
LDAP: Fixed several bugs reported by Jeff Graham and Barron Koralesky -- including bugs 3912 and 3974
LDAP: We can now bind non-anonymously to LDAP
Authorize.net: several fixes

Resources

Bugfix: Avoid linking to empty or unlinkable activity names

Forums

Big and small optimizations to tracking of read/unread messages, specially for PostgreSQL
Fixed some PostgreSQL bugs
Some more actions are now supported by backup/restore when processing log records, see bug 3582
Now message forum RSS feeds are including category data -- useful under some RSS agregators able to group messages, see bug 3654
Fixed paging on forum search

Blocks

Several performance improvements
Fixes to the upgrade process, including PostgreSQL syntax and lower memory usage
Brought in several bugfixes from 1.6dev
Fixed bug 3478: Cannot add RSS feed as course creator
Fixed bug 3793: Prevent warning message when configuring a glossary_random block in a course which has no glossaries

Quiz

Some CSS style fixes
Better compatibility with themes that contain forms in the headers
Highlighting of correct answers can now be turned off
Fixed bug 3986: Too many random questions. (mindforge)
Fixed missing action icons
Fixed bug 3899 and removed some 'missing course object' messages
Fixed bug 3950: Ee-attempt button inconsistency for multi-attempt quizzes
Fixed bug 3953: Quiz/report.php pagesize can be set to 0, credits to Jean-Michel
Fixed potential data data corruption bug 3915
Fixed bug 3884: Quiz correct highlights missing for 2 of 3 options.
Fix for the Student review highlight doesn't seem to work bug
Fixed bug 3804: Differences in question types between 1.5 and 1.6
Fixed bug 3822: don't count previews as attempts
Fixed bug 3807: Question numbering issue
Fixes for the item analysis plug-in, assembled by Jean-Michel
Now we reset the timeout counter to avoid timeouts
Several improvements contributed by Jean-Michel Vedrine. You can now change the number of attempts per page displayed on screen, and download results to Excel/text file, including detailed grades
Fixed export bug with non-English languages

SCORM

We now support SCORM 1.3 (SCORM 2004)!
Fixed a bug with next and prev SCO search
Fixed bugs related to masteryscore
Fixed a problem in AICC course tracking

Wiki

Now paging of older versions is showed and working properly, see bug 3750

Filters

Mediaplugin filter now finds multi-line links in HTML code
Censor filter: Added original word as title to the blacked-out version. The filter can obscure actual important words by mistake (eg Dickens) and there needs to be some way to recover the meaning

Moodle 1.5.2

16th July, 2005

Various fixes

Journal -> Assignment upgrade now works properly :-/
Assignment submodules now upgrade as expected
Various other bugs with new Assignments fixed
Journal module is now disabled by default on new installations
Login page is now 100% HTTPS if required
Various small standard theme tweaks
Fix for recent matching questions display bug in Quiz
Language editor no longer creates empty files when not necessary (caused country list bug)
Fixed some manifest parsing problems in SCORM module
Multilang filter now deals with pack names that contain numbers
Files are now force-downloaded (fixes IE problems and some security issues)
Relinking debugging output is escaped
Large MP3 player now displays ID3 tags properly again
Some chat daemon improvements

Some new things

Orangewhite theme optimised for use on PDA
Forum user posts page can be called without userid
Altavista BabelFish now allowed in as guest when Google is

Moodle 1.5.1

8th July, 2005

Various fixes

Several potential security problems solved
Allowobjectembed setting now works correctly
Speed problem on IE, caused by tab hover fixed.
Cut and paste in editor on Firefox has a more helpful warning message
Fixed a session problem when logged on as admin during upgrade from very old Moodle version
Fixed editing problem in Main menu of site
Minor CSS display problems in a few areas were fixed
Fixed the adding of a single discussion forum
Fixed Lesson problems with calculating grades, and dates
Fixed Lesson problems with entering a cluster after a page
Censor filter was fixed to make it work better with old themes

Some new things

New theme: Wood
Metal theme updated for 1.5
Many language updates for most languages, including a new language: Khmer
Block classes can now run custom code when an instance is created/deleted (this is useful for blocks that need to set up non-trivial data structures)
Wizard for Calculated Questions in Quiz was rewritten
Backup/Restore module selection is now improved and much easier
Backup/Restore module has much improved relinking support, it's now faster and easier to implement in new modules

Moodle 1.5

5th June, 2005

Here you can find the release notes of the current stable version of Moodle. If you experience any bugs in this release, please report them at moodle.org/bugs so we can fix them in the next release.

Headline features

Web pages are compliant with XHTML Transitional 1.0
Improved Accessibility, aiming for compliance with WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US) criteria.
Very strong new Themes system, allowing cascading themes, user themes, course themes, with very fine control of every page in Moodle via CSS.
Integrated Messaging feature for direct communication between all users in the site, featuring realtime popup windows, notification, email copies, blocking, history, WYSIWYG editor, etc
Forum read/unread tracking with highlights allows you to see new postings at a glance and to control how these are displayed (per forum, per user or per site).
New Blocks system, allowing multiple copies of blocks and better block configuration
Full support for Daylight Savings Time in every locality around the globe, so everyone always see the correct local time for all events.
New extended gradebook allowing custom weighting of different activities, setting extra grades (or taking out others) and improved display and sorting options
Users can be required to agree to a Site Policy

Other major system-wide improvements

Admin

New "maintenance mode" allows the admin to temporarily disable a site (during upgrades, for example).
Moodle can automatically download a new list of timezones from moodle.org or elsewhere and install it to the database (Olson files are supported too)
New version of Moodle MySQL Admin module (available separately)
New calendar options page provides user interface to configure the behavior of the calendar

Authentication

New Shibboleth Support
New CAS Support
New PAM Support
Improved LDAP integration, so that LDAP can now control course creation, group assignments. Increased performance and scalability performing user synchronisation.
Certain user fields can be locked by the admin when using external authentication
Improved session handling now detects "crossover" sessions that we have found in some buggy PHP installations and prevents them
Sessions can now be stored in the database (good for clustered installations!)
Users can be forced to change their password

Files

Standardised file browsing in all areas
Improved uploading, with support for automated Virus scanning of new documents using ClamAV.
Slasharguments now work also on IIS (upgrade to PHP 4.3.11 needed for ISAPI)

Filters

Standardised filter library makes it trivial to write new filters that require searching and highlighting of text.
Huge efficiency improvements for complex filters like the Glossary filter
New Tidy filter uses the W3C Tidy program to (optionally) clean all user-entered texts throughout the site and convert it to valid XHTML code
Improved censorship filter, now "blacks out" words using styles and uses a word list from the language packs.
Improved Flash MP3 player, now shows progress bar while downloading and playing
Improved Multi-language filter is faster, more forgiving of syntax errors, and uses new editor-friendly syntax:
Auto-linking filters (glossary, activities) can work to link all the occurrences (old behaviour), once for each text block or only once for the whole page ($CFG->filtermatchonepertext, $CFG->filtermatchoneperpage).
More text can now be filtered in Moodle, including activity names, headings and other such small texts. This makes it possible to design completely multi-lingual sites in Moodle that fully appears in the user's chosen language.

Themes

Modules can provide standard styles
Themes can override required styles of other themes
Users and courses can choose their own themes if the admin allows it
Implementation of tabs interface on many pages
Modules, Blocks and Languages can define their own standard styles

HTML Editor

The toolbuttons offered in the editor toolbar are now configurable by the admin
Search and Replace text within the editor text area (with optional use of regular expressions)

Course management

Transparent Blackboard 5.5 course importing (partial 6.0 support)
The new meta-courses allow to get users automatically enroled in a general course (the metacourse) when enroled in any of the metacourse-linked courses
New tool to copy content from a course to other.

New blocks

HTML block: allowing to place arbitrary content (text, images links) in any course mainpage
Remote RSS feed: allows to display external news channels inside a Moodle course
Glossary Selection: to choose and display content from a Moodle glossary in course mainpage

Calendar

Major speed improvements for sites with a large number of courses using groups
Repeating events can now be modified or deleted all at the same time or separately as before
New "remember filter settings" preference that allows calendar filters to remember their status between logins

Activity module improvements

Assignment

Completely refactored into a new class-based design, allowing new plugin-assignment types
New Online Text assignment type that doesn't require files and allows inline comments when grading - this new type effectively replaces the old Journal module
Vastly improved grading interface for handling large classes
New configuration options to disable late submission and to e-mail alerts to teachers when students submit new work

Chat

Streamlined interface looks smoother, works faster, even without using the optional server daemon
Blocks can now be added to chat pages (e.g. for additional information)

Choice

Rewritten to allow any number of choices
The number of users per choice can be limited, which allows it to be used as tool for "signing up" to an array of options.
You can now download the results of the choice to XLS or a TXT file

Forum

Powerful new Google-like forum searching tools
Forum read/unread tracking - unread messages are highlighted on the course page, forum page, discussion listing and the discussion view
The tracking system may be disabled by teachers/users
User profiles show all posts by a user, as well as all discussions
When admins edit user messages, a notice is attached
Discussion listing shows the last user who posted to each discussion and when it was, with a direct link to that post
In group-enabled forums the discussion listing shows the group the thread applies to, with a link to the group description page.

Glossary

New setting to enable/disable the print view of each glossary.
New search system looks for words everywhere (instead of doing exact phrase match).
More information is sent to logs to be able to track activity better.

Journal

The Journal module has not changed since 1.4, and is now deprecated. The upgrade procedure will convert all your Journal activities into Online Assignments, and hide all the old Journal activities. If you don't want this to happen, then define this in your config.php: $CFG->noconvertjournals = true;

Lesson

Now supports timed Lessons
Can create practice Lessons (grades are not stored)
Option for students to view points earned while taking the Lesson
Allow students to review their answers before submitting the Lesson
New Slide Show Mode (only branch tables are displayed as slides)
New Left Menu (for enabled branch tables only)
Lessons can now be Password Protected
A Tree View can be used for the Lesson creation screen
Students can post their high scores
New option to save a Lesson's settings as defaults for new lessons in the same course
Can delete a student's attempts
New page Jumps:
- Previous Page
- Unseen question within a branch
- Random question within a branch
- Unseen question within a cluster
Added functionality to view Lesson statistics
New question type: Essay. Teachers can view each essay and write comments, assign a grade, and then email it all to the student
New question creation interface

Quiz

Can handle adaptive questions, i.e., questions that allow the student to interact with them repeatedly within the same quiz attempt and that can change in response to student answers.
Student can be allowed to try a question again immediately within the same quiz attempt until they get the answer right.
There is a penalty mechanism that deducts a specified fraction of the mark for each wrong attempt at a question.
Allows questions rendered and scored externally (e.g., by mathematical assessment engines) to be integrated seamlessly into Moodle quizzes via the RQP web services protocol.
Is prepared for the handling of IMS QTI questions once web services for these become available.
New tabbed teacher interface for previewing, editing, and reviewing quizzes.
New "improved security" mode shows quiz in a separate full-screen window, with many browser features disabled
Quizzes can be presented to students in several pages. The number of questions per page is selectable by the teacher.
Blocks can now be added to quiz pages (to show results table, or additional information etc)
Better and cleaner interface for question selection and management in the database. Selected questions can be added to quiz, moved to other categories or deleted en mass.
Random questions are now added to the quiz question list with a dedicated button, leaving a cleaner interface at questions database without phantom placeholders
Final grade can be a fractional number, with teacher-defined decimal figures
Improved results page with user-selectable display of columns, cleaner sorting and new mark display options
Questions can be edited with one click from the improved quiz preview and question preview screens.
Questions can be copied with one click, to allow question variations to be created with ease.
Revamped question categories structures and editing interface.
Categories now can contain nested subcategories and can be re-ordered.
It is possible to select whether questions from categories, and or their subcategories are displayed on the question edit page.
It is now possible to select whether to add random questions from a parent category alone, or from a parent category and its sub-categories.
Quiz creators are prevented from changing the question set of quizes that have had student responses.
Recognition, and rejection, of overlapping/redundant questions has been improved.
The display of questions in longer quiz categories on the quiz editing page is now paginated.
New export types - IMS QTI (2.0) and xhtml. Improvements & fixes to others.
New import type - Hot Potato. Improvements & fixes to others.

Scorm

The module is now fully conformant with the SCORM 1.2 standard.
User result data storage and reporting was improved.
AICC packages can now be imported.

Survey

Graph formatting has been improved (labels are more readable)

Wiki

Changes to wiki pages are now monitored and displayed in Recent Activity block
Several under the hood improvements to backup/restore and other routines that enhance the reliability of wikis

Documentation

Latest release notes

Contents

Moodle 1.7

Headline features

Other improvements

Moodle 1.6.1+

Bug Fixes

Moodle 1.6.1

Bug Fixes

New Features

Known Problems

Related

Moodle 1.6

New features

See also

Moodle 1.5.4

Various fixes

Moodle 1.5.3

A few new things

Various fixes

Moodle 1.5.2

Various fixes

Some new things

Moodle 1.5.1

Various fixes

Some new things

Moodle 1.5

Headline features

Other major system-wide improvements

Activity module improvements

See also