Talk:History
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- 1998 Martin begins preliminary work on Moodle
- 1999 Martin trials early prototypes - paper "Improving the effectiveness of tools for internet based education"
- 2001 Moodle.com runs Moodle - first forum post
- 2001 http://smec2001.moodle.com/ Peter Taylor
- Nov 2001 available via CVS
- Dec 2001 installation documentation
- May 2002 - tracker (just Martin)
- History of Quiz development 2002-2011 https://docs.moodle.org/dev/History_of_the_Moodle_quiz_and_question_bank
- Paper presented http://dougiamas.com/writing/herdsa2002/
- August 20 2002 Moodle 1 is released
- Sept 2002 forum post "there is a new "course" on this server called "Using Moodle", which I will be developing as a place for teachers, administrators and developers to discuss, er, using Moodle. "
- French, Finnish Portuguese Italian German, Spanish, Catalan, US Eng, Japanese
- Dec 2002 if you're handy with CSS, HTML and a paint program, perhaps you'd like to design some new standard themes (skins) for Moodle, to be included in Moodle 1.0.8.
- Feb 20o3 -Moodle.com splits with Moodle.org
- Feb 2004 - groups
- 2004 First Moodle Moot July Oxford and German Moodle Moot
- March 2004 over a 1000 registered sites and a year later over 3000 in over 100 countries
- Oct 2005 -Moodle HQ
- Nov 2005 Open University chooses Moodle
- 2006 new documentation wiki Jan 2006 Documentation steward Helen Foster
- 2006 Certification>MCCC 2008
- July 2006 First official Moodle Certified Teacher (Nedim Dedic)
- 2007 Google summer of code
- 2008 Community Manager
- 2008 half a million registered users
- 2009 Planet Moodle
- 2009 50 Moodle partners
- 2010 New premises http://www.flickr.com/photos/moodler/sets/72157623325227250/detail/
- 2010 Started using Git
- 2010 Moodle 2 Nov
- 2010 over a million registered users
- 2010 Dec School demo
- 2011 separate versions of docs
- 2011 onwards mobile app >HTML 5 by 2013
- 2012 over a hundred languages
- 2012 Moodle research conference
- 2012 Dropped CVS
- Feb 2013 releases synchronised
