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Revision as of 03:33, 7 October 2010
Moodle 2.0 and the community: Martin Dougiamas, Moodle founder
Martin Dougiamas, just in from a conference in Greece, says we're actually doing pretty well in Australia - although criticism is part of the development cycle.
- xkcd universities webapage comic - good usability graphic - what would xkcd say about Moodle?
- Shows Moodle.org - 2nd oldest moodle site
- Demonstrates Moodle tracker, e.g., including QA (quality assurance) for testing whether things work in 2.0 - anyone can do this e.g., using their own latest version of Moodle - or http://qa.moodle.net (rebuilt every hour)
- Only 3 of the top 10 using Moodle countries are English-speaking; Spain is the highest use per capita
- Languages - http://lang.moodle.org - allows collaborative translation (uses AMOS - flags and tracks all 85 translations)
- Moodle 2.0 benefits
- Security improved
- Performance better
- Media/file management improved
- Integrations - Primarily a course management system - which integrates with intranet and/or wider world
- Usability
- New features e.g.,
- Navigation block
- Change roles from any page
- Secure RSS feed key
- My Moodle - starts with own page by default
- My private files
- Media importing e.g. via flickr, can be filtered by license and brings in authorship and license details.
- Blog - can now be pointed instead to an external blog