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| Expected final release date: '''November, 2010''' (if testing goes well)
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| Interim releases for testing:
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| * [[Moodle 2.0 Preview 1 release notes]] - May 4, 2010
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| * [[Moodle 2.0 Preview 2 release notes]] - May 17, 2010
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| * [[Moodle 2.0 Preview 3 release notes]] - May 31, 2010
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| * [[Moodle 2.0 Preview 4 release notes]] - June 30, 2010
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| * [[Moodle 2.0 Release Candidate 1 release notes]] - September 21, 2010
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| * Moodle 2.0 Release Candidate 2 - November 12, 2010
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| Moodle 2.0 contains a lot of large new features, some completely rewritten features, and hundreds of bug fixes. For full details (more than you probably want!), see [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL/fixforversion/10122 the full list of fixed issues in 2.0].
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| This page is a summary of the major things to look for (links and screenshots will be added over time). | |
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| ==Major new features==
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| ===[[Community hub|Community hubs]]===
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| * Anybody can set up a Community hub, which is a directory of courses for public use or for private communities. The code is implemented as separate GPL plugin for Moodle.
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| * Sites can register to any Community hub (instead of just moodle.org)
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| * Teachers on registered sites can publish their full courses to Community hubs, for download
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| * Teachers on registered sites can also advertise their courses on Community hubs, for people to join
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| * Teachers on any site can search all public Community hubs and download courses as templates for their own courses
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| * Users on any Moodle site can also search Community hubs for courses (and communities of practice) to participate in. Initially we are encouraging ''''communities of teaching practice'''' but any sort of course can be listed.
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| ===[[Repositories|Repository support]]===
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| * Moodle now supports integration with external repositories of content, making it really simple to bring documents and media into Moodle via an AJAX interface that looks like a standard '''Open''' dialogue in desktop applications.
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| * Initial plugins in 2.0 include: Alfresco, Amazon S3, Box.net, File system on Server, Flickr, Google Docs, Mahara, MERLOT, Picasa, Recent Files, Remote Moodle sites, WebDAV servers, Wikimedia, Youtube. These are simple to develop, so many more are expected.
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| * You can also import files from your desktop or by specifying a URL.
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| ===[[Portfolios|Portfolio support]]===
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| * Modules can now export their data to external systems, particularly useful for portfolios where snapshots of forums, assignments and other things in Moodle are useful to record in a journal or a portfolio of evidence
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| * Different formats are supported (currently LEAP2A, HTML, Images and Text, but others like PDF can be added)
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| * Initial plugins in 2.0 include: Box.net, Flickr, Google Docs, '''Mahara''' and Picasa.
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| ===[[Completion]]===
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| * Teachers can now specify conditions that define when any '''activity''' is seen as completed by a student. For example, when a certain number of posts have been made, or a grade has been reached, or a choice has been made.
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| * Teachers can now specify conditions that define with any '''course''' is seen as completed by a student. Conditions include activity completion, but could also be by grade, date or a number of other criteria.
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| * Teachers and students can see reports that show the progress of any user within a course, or through a series of courses.
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| ===[[Conditional activities]]===
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| * Access to activities can be restricted based on certain criteria, such as dates, grade obtained, or the completion of another activity.
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| * These can be chained together to enable progressive disclosure of the course content, if that is desired.
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| ===[[Cohorts]]===
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| * Also known as "Site-wide groups", these are site-wide collections of users that can be enrolled into courses in one action, either manually or synchronised automatically
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| ===[[Web Services|Web services support]]===
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| * Support for standards-based web services across the entire Moodle code base, allowing the admin to expose particular functions of Moodle for use by:
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| ** Administrative systems such as HR or SIS applications
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| ** Mobile clients
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| * Framework contains a very high-level of security with a detailed token system and complete control over the range of functions exposed
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| * All defined functions are automatically available via:
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| ** XML-RPC
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| ** AMF (Flash)
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| ** REST
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| ** SOAP (PHP)
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| ===[[IMS Common Cartridge import|IMS Common Cartridge]]===
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| * Moodle can now import courses in IMS Common Cartridge format (commonly used by publishers)
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| ===New blocks===
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| * [[Comments block]] - like a shoutbox, allows comments to be added to any page. Great for student feedback.
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| * [[My private files block]] - allows easy access to one's private file repository in Moodle (with quota support)
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| * [[Community block]] - keeps track of external courses one is interested in
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| * [[Course completion status block]] - reports on the completion status of your courses
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| ===[[Plagiarism Prevention|Plagiarism prevention]]===
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| * Moodle supports integration with plagiarism prevention tools such as Turnitin
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| ==Major improvements to existing core features==
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| ===[[Backup 2.0|Backup and restore]]===
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| * Completely rewritten Backup/Restore framework, no longer bound by memory (can work with '''any size course''').
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| * Completely new backup format.
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| * Improved interface.
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| * Backup can be made of whole courses, but also specific sections or activities.
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| ===[[Blocks 2.0|Blocks]]===
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| * Blocks are now consistently implemented on every page in Moodle
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| * No longer any limit to the block regions (in addition to left and right, put them at the top, center or bottom of pages)
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| * Any block can be made sticky (appears in all the contexts below, eg throughout a course).
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| * Blocks can be "docked" on the side of the screen (if the theme supports it)
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| ===[[Blogs 2.0|Blogs]]===
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| * Support for comments on each blog entry
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| * Removal of group-level and course-level blogs (these are converted into forums on upgrade)
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| * Support for external blog feeds (synchronised to Moodle blog)
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| ===[[Comments 2.0|Comments]]===
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| * User comments (Glossaries, Databases, Blogs, etc) are now all consistently handled and displayed throughout Moodle, using AJAX if available
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| ===[[Enrolments 2.0|Enrolment plugins]]===
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| * Major improvements in the handling of guests and guest accounts
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| * Support for multiple forms of enrolment at the same time
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| * More detailed control over enrolment in courses
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| ===[[File handling 2.0|File handling]]===
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| * Full support for Unicode file names on all operating systems.
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| * Metadata about each file (author, date, license, etc) and what the file is used for are stored in the database.
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| * Duplicate files (for example, a large video file use in two different courses) are only stored once, saving disk space.
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| * Files are no longer just "uploaded to the course". Files are connected to the particular bit of Moodle content that uses them. (For example, a file may belong to a file resource, a forum post or a wiki page). Access to these files is then controlled by the same rules as as that bit of Moodle, increasing security.
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| ===[[Filters 2.0]]===
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| * In the past, you had to use the same filters everywhere in your Moodle site, and this could only be changed by admins.
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| * Now, you can have different filters in different courses, activities or categories.
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| * For example, you could turn on the LaTeX filter just for courses in the Maths and Physics categories.
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| * Or you could turn off glossary linking in the end of course exam.
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| ===[[HTML editor 2.0|HTML editor]]===
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| * New editor based on TinyMCE
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| * Works on more browsers
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| * Resizable editing area
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| * Cleaner XHTML output
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| * Full integration with configured external repositories to import and embed media into text
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| ===[[Messaging 2.0|Messaging]]===
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| * All email sent by Moodle is now treated as a message
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| * A message overview panel allows users to control how messages are sent to them
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| * Initial message output plugins in Moodle 2.0 include: Email, Jabber and Popups
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| ===[[My Moodle 2.0|My Moodle page]]===
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| * More customisable My Moodle page with new blocks for showing relevant information
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| * Admin can design (and optionally force) site-wide layouts for My Moodle
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| * My Moodle page given more prominence as the main "home page" for users
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| ===[[Navigation 2.0|Navigation]]===
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| * Standard "Navigation" block on every page showing contextual links, while allowing you to jump elsewhere quickly
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| * Standard "Settings" blocks on every page shows contextual settings as well as settings for anything else you have permissions for
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| ===[[Ratings 2.0|Ratings]]===
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| * User ratings (Glossaries, Databases, Forums, etc) are now all consistently handled and displayed throughout Moodle, using AJAX if available
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| * Aggregation of using ratings into activity grades is now standardised in all activities
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| ===[[Roles 2.0|Roles and permissions]]===
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| * Improved and simplified AJAX interfaces for defining and assigning roles
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| * Improved and simplified interfaces for tweaking permissions in any given context
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| * New "Archetypes" concept replacing the "Legacy roles" concept.
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| * New archetype "manager" to define the role of most people with system-wide editing rights, separate from "admin" role.
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| ===[[RSS feeds 2.0|RSS feeds]]===
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| * All RSS feeds are now secured using a random per-user token in the URL
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| * Tokens can be updated by the user at any time (if they suspect a feed URL has been compromised)
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| * RSS feeds are now more accurate (eg they support forums with separate groups), and are generated efficiently whenever required
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| ===[[Development:Themes 2.0|Themes]]===
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| * Many new themes in the core distribution - see [[Theme credits]] for a list
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| * All HTML and JS ouput is now far more efficient (server-side caching) and consistent (tableless layout, new CSS, YUI Framework)
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| * Themes can change the HTML of the page if they wish
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| * Core support for custom menus in all themes (for example at the top of the page)
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| ===[[Translation 2.0|Translation system]]===
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| * [http://lang.moodle.org/ New web portal] to make it easer for groups to collaborate on translating Moodle, and to keep their translations up-to-date.
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| * More efficient [[Development:Languages/AMOS|storage format for language strings]] should slightly improve performance.
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| ===User profile pages===
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| * Site-wide user profile page can be customised by users with blocks, news, feeds and so on
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| * Course-specific user profile pages show course blocks and standard profile information, plus information for teachers of that course
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| ==Major improvements to activity modules==
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| ===Lesson===
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| * Refactored internal code
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| * Forms are now standard Moodle forms
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| ===Quiz module and question bank===
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| * [[Development:quiz_navigation|Quiz navigation improvements for students]]
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| * [[Development:Flagging_questions_during_a_quiz_attempt|Flagging questions during a quiz attempt]]
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| * [[Development:Quiz_report_enhancements|Quiz report enhancements]] - Major improvements to the quiz reports, especially regrading and item analysis
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| * [[Development:Quiz_report_statistics|Quiz report statistics]] - A brief guide
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| * [[Development:Quiz_UI_redesign|Quiz editing interface improvements]]
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| * Different settings (open/close date, number of attempts, password, time limit) for each group or student (MDL-16478)
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| * [[Development:Administration page for question types|Administration page for question types]]
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| * [[Development:Moodle 2.0 question bank improvements|Question tagging and improved searching in the question bank]]
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| * MDL-8648 Essay questions can now be randomised by random questions
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| ===Resource===
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| * All the resource types have been refactored into real modules, and cleaned up
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| ** File - for displaying a file, possibly with supporting files (like a HTML mini-site)
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| ** Folder - for displaying a collection of documents
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| ** URL - for displaying a page with a given URL
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| ** Page - for a single page, edited online using the HTML editor
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| ** IMS - for showing a regular IMS content package
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| * Better XHTML-compliant support for frames, iframes and embedding in all these modules
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| ===SCORM===
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| * New [[SCORM module]] settings - display attempt status, display course structure, force completed, force new attempt, lock after final attempt - allowing the behaviour dictated to the SCORM object by the authoring package to be changed MDL-11501
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| * New reporting interface including sortable/collapsible table with group select box and ability to download in Excel, ODS and text format MDL-21555
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| * New SCORM player UI with better navigation, improved performance and better handling of stage size MDL-22951
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| ===[[Wiki module 2.0|Wiki]]===
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| * Completely re-written from scratch, based on NWIki from UPC
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| * Support for Mediawiki-style syntax, as well as Creole
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| * Interface improvements
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| ===[[Workshop module 2.0|Workshop]]===
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| * Completely rewritten from scratch
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| * Vastly improved interface for managing stages and users
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| ==System requirements==
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| Since Moodle 2.0 is such a major release, we are allowing ourselves some increases in the requirements.
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| * PHP must be 5.2.8 or later (it was released 08-Dec-2008)
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| * Databases should be one of the following:
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| ** MySQL 5.0.25 or later (InnoDB storage engine highly recommended)
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| ** PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
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| ** Oracle 10.2 or later
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| ** MS SQL 2005 or later
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| * Any standards-supporting browser from the past few years, for example:
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| ** Firefox 3 or later
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| ** Safari 3 or later
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| ** Google Chrome 4 or later
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| ** Opera 9 or later
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| ** MS Internet Explorer 7 or later (Even [http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html Google don't support IE6 any more])
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| ** etc
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| ==Upgrading==
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| When upgrading to Moodle 2.0, you must have Moodle 1.9 or later. if you are using an earlier version of Moodle (eg 1.8.x) then you need to upgrade to Moodle 1.9.x first. We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect.
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| For further information, see [[Upgrading to Moodle 2.0]].
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| ==For developers: API changes==
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| See [[Development:Migrating_contrib_code_to_2.0]]
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| * [[Development:Plugin system changes in Moodle 2.0]] - all the different types of plugin are now handles more consistently when it comes to installation and upgrading, capabilities, events, and so on.
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| * [[Development:DB_layer_2.0_migration_docs|Database layer changes]] - you will need to update your code.
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| * [[Development:Using_the_file_API|File handling changes]] - you will need to update your code.
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| * [[Development:Migrating your code code to the 2.0 rendering API|Rendering layer changes]] - should be mostly backwards compatible, but you are advised to upgrade your code.
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| * Require capability used to do an automatic require_login. It no longer does so. All pages must explicitly call require_login if they need it. MDL-19882
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| * [[Development:Moodle_2.0_question_type_API_changes|Changes to the question type API]]
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| * MNet has been refactored and tidied up - related third party code needs to be checked
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| * Changes and improvements to the [[Development:Local_customisation|Local customisation system]].
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| * Javascript
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| * YUI
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| * custom profile fields values are loaded into $USER->profile array instead of directly into $USER object
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| ==Credits==
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| These people made check-ins to Moodle 2.0 code. Thanks to all of them, of course. Some of these people represent a team of people who actually worked on the code.
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| Robert Allerstorfer <anet.at>
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| Inaki Arenaza <eteo.mondragon.edu>
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| Aaron Barnes <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Gordon Bateson <kanazawa-gu.ac.jp>
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| John Beedell <open.ac.uk>
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| Aparup Banerjee <moodle.com>
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| Andrea Bicciolo <mtouch.it>
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| Anthony Borrow <jesuits.net>
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| Peter Bulmer <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Dongsheng Cai <moodle.com>
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| Matt Clarkson <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Nicolas Connault <moodle.com>
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| Andrew Davis <moodle.com>
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| Gustav Delius <york.ac.uk>
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| Martin Dougiamas <moodle.com>
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| Shane Elliott <shane@pukunui.com>
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| Ethem Evlice
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| Helen Foster <moodle.com>
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| Nicholas Freear <open.ac.uk>
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| Valery Fremaux
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| Dariem Garces
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| Andreas Grabs <grabs-edv.de>
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| Jenny Gray <open.ac.uk>
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| Jonathan Harker <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Piers Harding <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Lukas Haemmerle <switch.ch>
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| Sam Hemelryk <moodle.com>
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| Ashley Holman <netspot.com.au>
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| Luke Hudson <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Tim Hunt <open.ac.uk>
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| Urs Hunkler <unodo.de>
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| Mike Churchward <oktech.ca>
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| Wen Hao Chuang <gmail.com>
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| Samuli Karevaara <lamk.fi>
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| Michael Ketcham <microsoft.com>
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| Eloy Lafuente <moodle.com>
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| Martin Langhoff <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Penny Leach <liip.ch>
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| Patrick Malley <newschoollearning.com>
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| Dan Marsden <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Francois Marier <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Sam Marshall <open.ac.uk>
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| Donal McMullan <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Eric Merrill <oakland.edu>
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| Howard Miller <e-learndesign.co.uk>
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| Gareth Morgan <open.ac.uk>
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| Jerome Mouneyrac <moodle.com>
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| David Mudrak <moodle.com>
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| Jonathan Newman <catalyst.net.nz>
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| Mark Nielsen <moodlerooms.com>
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| Matt Oquist <majen.net>
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| Mathieu Petit-Clair <moodle.com>
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| Pierre Pichet <uqam.ca>
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| Roberto Pinna <mfn.unipmn.it>
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| Jordi Piguillem <upc.edu.es>
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| Dan Poltawski <lancaster.ac.uk>
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| Jamie Pratt <jamiep.org>
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| Joseph Rezeau <rezeau.org>
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| Shamim Rezaie <rezaie.info>
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| Luis Rodrigues
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| Olli Savolainen
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| Petr Skoda <moodle.com>
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| John Stabinger
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| Rossiani Wijaya <moodle.com>
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| Derek Woolhead <open.ac.uk>
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| Mitsuhiro Yoshida <mitstek.com>
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| Yu Zhang <moodle.com>
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Moodle 1.9 release notes]]
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| *[[QA testing]]
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| [[Category:Release notes]]
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| [[Category:Moodle 2.0]]
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| [[fr:Notes de mise à jour de Moodle 2.0]]
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| [[es:Notas de Moodle 2.0]]
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