Experimental settings

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Location: Administration > Miscellaneous > Experimental in 1.9 or Administration > Development > Experimental in 2.0

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.

Experimental features in Moodle 1.9

• Global search
• 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 quiz settings form
• IMS Common Cartridge import (in Moodle 1.9.7 onwards)

Experimental features in Moodle 2.0

Template:Moodle 2.0*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 gradebook for all users unless a gradebook category is set up as follows:

1. Put all graded activity is assigned to a particular groupings into one category
2. Set the aggregation for the category to maximum grade.
3. 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?'