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Moodle 1.7

Release date: 7th November, 2006

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Headline features

Roles

Permissions based on fine-grained capabilities allow all kinds of roles to be created and assigned in all contexts around Moodle. This creates a great deal more flexibility in the permissions that you can grant to people.

XML Database Schema

added support for MS-SQL and Oracle with more databases to come. Developers now have just one XML file to edit when changing the database structure, and there is even a very funky editor for this file built-in to Moodle

New Admin interface

Completely new admin interface, with accessible design and cool features to make access to settings fast and easy.

Unit testing framework

Making it easier for developers to write test code, which should ultimately lead to a more reliable Moodle.

AJAX Course editing (STILL UNSTABLE IN 1.7 RELEASE AND OFF BY DEFAULT, USE WITH CAUTION!)

The Topics and Weekly course formats now feature AJAX editing which means you can drag drop blocks, activities and sections (weeks/topics) and it all happens instantly. No more page reloading!

Module improvements

Improvements to the Assignment module
- New type Advanced uploading of files

Improvements to the Database module
- Template/Field settings can now be saved as Presets and shared across a site.
- Presets are just zip files, and can also be shared between sites.
- Moodle 1.7 comes with one sample preset (an Image Gallery) with more to come.
- New latitude/longitude data type

Improvements to the Lesson module
- Now has a more unified view of lesson screens.
- Teacher editing:
  - Collapsed view has a nicer format, displays more information regarding each page and allows the creation of new pages.
  - Editing is now speedier by replacing 3 second redirect delays with a notification system.
- New feature: display default feedback.
  - Default is On so previous lessons behave as before.
  - Description: if no response is entered for a question answer and this setting is turned Off, then the user skips the feedback page.
- Graceful degrade of JavaScript.
- Several bug fixes.

Improvements to the Quiz module

The teacher can configure comments that are displayed to the student at the end of their attempt, with the comment displayed depending on the student's score.

Improvements to some core question types

All question types can now have some general feedback. This is displayed to all students after they have finished the question (depending on the quiz settings) and does not depend on what response the student gave. Use this to tell the student what the question was about, or link them to more information about the topic it covers.
Matching questions can have extra wrong answers, and work when two questions have the same answer.
Multiple Choice questions can have feedback for the whole question, as well as specific answers. This is particularly useful for multiple-response questions.
Numerical questions can have different answers with different precisions and scores. (Previously this was only supported via GIFT import. Now you can edit questions like this.)

Improvements to the Wiki module

While editing a wiki page it is now locked so that others cannot try to change it at the same time. Teachers can override the lock.
Minor bugfixes (mostly to fix problems that occured when using Postgres database).

Enrolment plugin improvements

Authorize.net Payment Gateway enrolment plugin

Accepts 'Electronic Checks (ACH)'. After a user approving echeck, an admin who has upload csv capacity must import a CSV file to get the user enrolled in the Payment Management page.
Autoconfigures credit card and echeck types if the merchant does not accept some types of them.

Moodle 1.7.1

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Release date: 17th January, 2007

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Moodle 1.7.2

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Release date: 30th March, 2007

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Security

Unintended logouts are now prevented - sesskey added to logout.php script
Fixed problem with visible posts in user profile when "forceloginforprofiles" disabled
Fixed visibility of site blog entries
Corrected wrong includes in lams
XSS injection in SCORM 1.2 reports
Fixed old problem with approvals in Data module, edited entries were approved automatically
Fixed escaping in shell commands (Win32 platform only)
Fixed visibility of blog drafts
Rewritten parameter handling in repository plugin
Fixed XSS in login block

Moodle 1.7.3

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Release date: 11th October, 2007

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Moodle 1.7.4

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Release date: 11th January 2008

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Moodle 1.7.5

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Release date: 11th July 2008

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.7.5.

Moodle 1.7.6

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Release date: 15th October 2008

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Moodle 1.7.7

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Release date: 28th January 2009

Here is the full list of fixed issues in 1.7.7.

Note: This is the last formal release of the 1.7 branch. Support for this branch has been discontinued. We highly recommend you upgrade!

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 * [[Roles]]
 :: Permissions based on fine-grained capabilities allow all kinds of roles to be created and assigned in all contexts around Moodle. This creates a great deal more flexibility in the permissions that you can grant to people.
-* [[Development:XMLDB Documentation|XML Database Schema]]
+* [[XMLDB Documentation|XML Database Schema]]
 :: added support for MS-SQL and Oracle with more databases to come. Developers now have just one XML file to edit when changing the database structure, and there is even a very funky editor for this file built-in to Moodle
 * New Admin interface
 :: Completely new admin interface, with accessible design and cool features to make access to settings fast and easy.
-* [[Development:Unit tests|Unit testing framework]]
+* [[Unit tests|Unit testing framework]]
 :: Making it easier for developers to write test code, which should ultimately lead to a more reliable Moodle.
 * [[AJAX]] Course editing (STILL UNSTABLE IN 1.7 RELEASE AND OFF BY DEFAULT, USE WITH CAUTION!)
@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 ===Module improvements===
-* Improvements to the [[Assignment module]]
+* Improvements to the [[:en:Assignment module|Assignment module]]
 **New type Advanced uploading of files
-* Improvements to the [[Database module]]
+* Improvements to the [[:en:Database module|Database module]]
 **Template/Field settings can now be saved as Presets and shared across a site.
 **Presets are just zip files, and can also be shared between sites.
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 **New latitude/longitude data type
-* Improvements to the [[Lesson module]]
+* Improvements to the [[:en:Lesson module|Lesson module]]
 **Now has a more unified view of lesson screens.
 **Teacher editing:
@@ Line 40: / Line 40: @@
 **Several bug fixes.
-* Improvements to the [[Quiz module]]
+* Improvements to the [[:en:Quiz module|Quiz module]]
 :* The teacher can configure comments that are displayed to the student at the end of their attempt, with the comment displayed depending on the student's score.
@@ Line 49: / Line 49: @@
 :* [[Numerical question type|Numerical]] questions can have different answers with different precisions and scores. (Previously this was only supported via GIFT import. Now you can edit questions like this.)
-* Improvements to the [[Wiki module]]
+* Improvements to the [[:en:Wiki module|Wiki module]]
 :* While editing a wiki page it is now locked so that others cannot try to change it at the same time. Teachers can override the lock.
 :* Minor bugfixes (mostly to fix problems that occured when using Postgres database).
@@ Line 55: / Line 55: @@
 ===Enrolment plugin improvements===
-* [[Authorize.net Payment Gateway]] enrolment plugin
+* [[:en:Authorize.net Payment Gateway|Authorize.net Payment Gateway]] enrolment plugin
 :*Accepts 'Electronic Checks (ACH)'. After a user approving echeck, an admin who has upload csv capacity must import a CSV file to get the user enrolled in the Payment Management page.
 :*Autoconfigures credit card and echeck types if the merchant does not accept some types of them.