Moodle 2.1 Versionsinformationen

Veröffentlicht: 1. Juli 2011

Wichtige neue Funktionalitäten

New question engine

• Moodle question system has been rewritten to make it much more robust and to support lots of new possible functionality.
• See summary of changes at the New question engine page and more details in the tracker MDL-20636.
• Warning: This change requires a major database upgrade. If you have a lot of question attempts in your site, you probably need to plan your upgrade in stages, using some extra code that is not in core.
• Backward compatibility warning: Random short-answer matching question type was moved out of the main Moodle distribution.

Wiederherstellung der Kursinhalte aus Sicherungsdateien von Moodle 1.9.x

• Kurssicherungen, die mit Moodle 1.9.x erstellt wurden, können über die normale Wiederherstellung importiert werden.
• Nutzerdaten (z.B. Forumsbeiträge, Bewertungen, Aufgaben, ...) werden bei der Wiederherstellung bisher nicht berücksichtigt.
• Blocks werden bisher nicht wiederhergestellt.
• Weitere Informationen: MDL-22414

Unterstützung für mobile Endgeräte

• Moodle 2.1 besitzt einen eigenen WebService, entwickelt für mobile Endgeräte (notwendig für die offizielle Moodle App).
• MDL-27551 und Enable mobile web services documentation liefern genauere Informationen.
• MDL-25394 Überarbeiteter Support für Mobile Designs und Browser-Erkennung

Weitere Verbesserungen

• MDL-11288 Ability to copy (or clone) an activity
• MDL-27428 Ability to navigate navigation/settings menu and dock with keyboard
• MDL-26784 Improved plugins check/overview page
• MDL-27500 Upgraded TinyMCE to the latest version 3.4.2
• MDL-26105 User friendly block settings and help information
• MDL-27251 New performance setting for calculating an appropriate timeout during large cURL requests
• MDL-25805 Friendlier navigation for parent roles to see mentees in courses
• MDL-27577 Daylight saving should be calculated for users having string timezone
• MDL-27171 Messaging Improvements: Site administrators can now control which message delivery methods can be used for each message type

Sicherheitsfragen

• stehen noch nicht bereit

Aktualisierung von Moodle

When upgrading to Moodle 2.1, you must first upgrade to Moodle 1.9 or (preferably) 2.0. We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect.

For further information, see Upgrading to Moodle 2.1.

Für Entwickler: Änderungen bei den APIs

• The new question engine changes the API for question types. See dev:Developing a Question Type.
• The new question engine changes the API for activity modules that use the question bank. See dev:Using the question engine from module.
• There is a new API available for activity modules to support restore of 1.9 backup files. See dev:Backup 1.9 conversion for developers
• The Messaging API now allows plugin creators to specify default message providers for message outputs. See dev:Messaging_2.0_improvements#Adding_new_message_type