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Revision as of 07:26, 10 April 2013
So what's new in Moodle 2.5?
Moodle 2.5 brings a lot of exciting new features for teachers, students and administrators. This page highlights some of the most useful and coolest. Click any screenshot to see it enlarged. The full details with technical information can be found in the Moodle 2.5 Release notes
For teachers and students:
Set-up forms are much shorter
If the Scroll of Death is not dead, it is certainly very ill: non-essential settings are now condensed by default, with the option to expand if required.
In a similar space-saver, you can choose whether or not to enable the rich text editor when creating quiz questions:
Folders can be displayed inline on a course page
You can now choose whether to have a folder show its contents in a separate screen, as previously, or to have it display them inline with any subfolders expanded:
Badges
It's now possible for teachers to award course badges based on chosen criteria. These badges may also connect with Mozilla Open Badges
For administrators:
A new theme suited to all screen sizes
"Bootstrap" is a theme which changes according to the screensize of the device used - on smaller screens for example, blocks move to the bottom, freeing up space for the main content at the top:
Install add-ons from inside Moodle
It's now possible to install add-ons from within Moodle, rather than accessing folders on the server; useful for those admins who do not have FTP access. Add-ons can be uploaded and installed from a zip file or located and installed from the Moodle plugins directory: