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| == Latest Release notes - Moodle 1.5 (5th June, 2005) ==
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| === Headline features ===
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| * Web pages are compliant with XHTML Transitional 1.0
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| * Improved '''Accessibility''', aiming for compliance with WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US) criteria.
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| * Very strong '''new Themes system''', allowing cascading themes, user themes, course themes, with very fine control of every page in Moodle via CSS.
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| * Integrated '''Messaging''' feature for direct communication between all users in the site, featuring realtime popup windows, notification, email copies, blocking, history, WYSIWYG editor, etc
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| * Forum read/unread tracking with highlights allows you to see new postings at a glance and to control how these are displayed (per forum, per user or per site).
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| * New '''Blocks''' system, allowing multiple copies of blocks and better block configuration
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| * Full support for '''Daylight Savings Time''' in every locality around the globe, so everyone always see the correct local time for all events.
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| * New '''extended gradebook''' allowing custom weighting of different activities, setting extra grades (or taking out others) and improved display and sorting options
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| * Users can be required to agree to a '''Site Policy
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| === Other Major System-wide Improvements ===
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| ==== Admin ====
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| * New "maintenance mode" allows the admin to temporarily disable a site (during upgrades, for example).
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| * Moodle can automatically download a new list of timezones from moodle.org or elsewhere and install it to the database (Olson files are supported too)
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| * New version of Moodle MySQL Admin module (available separately)
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| * New calendar options page provides user interface to configure the behavior of the calendar
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| ==== Authentication ====
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| * New Shibboleth Support
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| * New CAS Support
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| * New PAM Support
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| * Improved LDAP integration, so that LDAP can now control course creation, group assignments. Increased performance and scalability performing user synchronisation.
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| * Certain user fields can be locked by the admin when using external authentication
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| * Improved session handling now detects "crossover" sessions that we have found in some buggy PHP installations and prevents them
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| * Sessions can now be stored in the database (good for clustered installations!)
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| * Users can be forced to change their password
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| ==== Files ====
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| * Standardised file browsing in all areas
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| * Improved uploading, with support for automated Virus scanning of new documents using ClamAV.
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| * Slasharguments now work also on IIS (upgrade to PHP 4.3.11 needed for ISAPI)
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| ==== Filters ====
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| * Standardised filter library makes it trivial to write new filters that require searching and highlighting of text.
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| * Huge efficiency improvements for complex filters like the Glossary filter
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| * New Tidy filter uses the W3C Tidy program to (optionally) clean all user-entered texts throughout the site and convert it to valid XHTML code
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| * Improved censorship filter, now "blacks out" words using styles and uses a word list from the language packs.
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| * Improved Flash MP3 player, now shows progress bar while downloading and playing
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| * Improved Multi-language filter is faster, more forgiving of syntax errors, and uses new editor-friendly syntax: <span lang="en"></span>
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| * Auto-linking filters (glossary, activities) can work to link all the occurrences (old behaviour), once for each text block or only once for the whole page ($CFG->filtermatchonepertext, $CFG->filtermatchoneperpage).
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| * More text can now be filtered in Moodle, including activity names, headings and other such small texts. This makes it possible to design completely multi-lingual sites in Moodle that fully appears in the user's chosen language.
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| ==== Themes ====
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| * Modules can provide standard styles
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| * Themes can override required styles of other themes
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| * Users and courses can choose their own themes if the admin allows it
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| * Implementation of tabs interface on many pages
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| * Modules, Blocks and Languages can define their own standard styles
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| ==== HTML Editor ====
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| * The toolbuttons offered in the editor toolbar are now configurable by the admin
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| * Search and Replace text within the editor text area (with optional use of regular expressions)
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| ==== Course management ====
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| * Transparent Blackboard 5.5 course importing (partial 6.0 support)
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| * The new meta-courses allow to get users automatically enroled in a general course (the metacourse) when enroled in any of the metacourse-linked courses
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| * New tool to copy content from a course to other.
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| ==== New blocks ====
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| * HTML block: allowing to place arbitrary content (text, images links) in any course mainpage
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| * Remote RSS feed: allows to display external news channels inside a Moodle course
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| * Glossary Selection: to choose and display content from a Moodle glossary in course mainpage
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| ==== Calendar ====
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| * Major speed improvements for sites with a large number of courses using groups
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| * Repeating events can now be modified or deleted all at the same time or separately as before
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| * New "remember filter settings" preference that allows calendar filters to remember their status between logins
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| == Older Release Notes ==
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