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<p class="note">'''Please refer to [[Page_notes#Developer tools|these notes]] before editing this page.'''</p>Location: ''Administration > Miscellaneous > Experimental'' in 1.9 or ''Administration > Development > Experimental'' in 2.0
An administrator can enable certain experimental features in ''Settings > Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings''.


An experimental feature is defined as a feature which require additional testing and bug-fixing.


The experimental page lists all current experimental features i.e. features which require additional testing and bug-fixing and provides the option to enable particular experimental features.
*[[Safe exam browser]]
*Drag and drop upload of text/links (see MDL-22504 for further details)


==Experimental features in Moodle 1.9==
Note for sites upgrading from earlier versions of Moodle:


*[[Global Search block|Global search]]
The experimental setting 'Group members only' was removed in Moodle 2.8. The group restriction option in [[Restrict access]] now provides this functionality. Any group members only instances are automatically converted to group restrictions as part of the site upgrade process.
*Smart pix search
*HTML Purifier
*[[Groupings]]
*Random questions can use manually graded questions (in Moodle 1.9.4 onwards)
*Split restore (in Moodle 1.9.5 onwards)
*Safe Exam Browser integration (in Moodle 1.9.6 onwards) - adding the option 'Require Safe Exam Browser' to the 'Browser security' field in the [[Adding/updating a quiz|quiz settings form]]
*[[IMS Common Cartridge import]] (in Moodle 1.9.7 onwards)
 
==Experimental features in Moodle 2.0==
{{Moodle 2.0}}*[[Global Search block|Global search]]
*Split restore
*[[IMS Common Cartridge import]]
*Safe Exam Browser integration
*Group members only - adding the 'Available for group members only' checkbox to the activity settings page ([[Groupings]] are always enabled in 2.0 onwards)
 
If a graded activity is assigned to a particular grouping only, it will still appear in the [[Grades|gradebook]] for all users unless a gradebook category is set up as follows:
 
# Put all graded activity is assigned to a particular groupings into one category
# Set the aggregation for the category to maximum grade.
# Hide the individual activities.
 
==See also==
 
* MDL-8074: Global search doesn't work (tracker report)
* [[Groupings FAQ]] for an answer to the question 'Why is the groupings feature experimental?'
 
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Latest revision as of 15:00, 15 August 2017

An administrator can enable certain experimental features in Settings > Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings.

An experimental feature is defined as a feature which require additional testing and bug-fixing.

Note for sites upgrading from earlier versions of Moodle:

The experimental setting 'Group members only' was removed in Moodle 2.8. The group restriction option in Restrict access now provides this functionality. Any group members only instances are automatically converted to group restrictions as part of the site upgrade process.

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