Temporary page for my notes on different versions, what my site is interested in. Will be doing a cut and paste and may link. We are currently at 1.5, yikes.
1.9 release Sept 2007
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1.9 is currently in beta. See Release Notes.
Gradebook development - Moodle.com and OU
- The gradebook system will be revamped for performance, switching from our older "pull" model to a "push" model where all modules will now publish grades as necessary into a central table. Support for (local/state) outcomes/goals/competencies is included!
- Events API - Moodle.com
- The new Events API provides a way for any code to "hook" into events in a clean, loosely coupled way. It's the foundation of the new Gradebook. A lot of events in Moodle (such as adding a user or a course) now trigger events that developers can hook into.
- Tags - part of the Google SOC Social Networking project by Luiz Cruz will make it's way into 1.9, allowing users to tag themselves and create interest pages around those tags, bringing information together from a variety of sources.
Improved question bank - Jamie Pratt funded by Future University Hakodate.
- Allows questions to be shared by the whole site, a course category, a singe course, or be kept private to a single module. More control over who can do what to each question.
- Also improved management of files linked to from questions.
- See also the original development plan here :Development:Plan_to_Improve_Flexibility_of_Question_Category_Sharing_and_Permissions
- Other Quiz/Question improvements:
- A quiz can now send emails when an attempt is finished - a confirmation to the student, a notification to all teachers, or both. (Implemented by Graham Miller of Web Enhanced Solutions).
- Some slight improvements to quiz layout. See [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-10374 MDL-10374] for details. Theme designers please note.
- Gift Import/Export format can now handle Essay and Description question types.
- Third party question types can now implement Moodle XML and other import and export formats (Implemented by Howard Miller).
- Multiple choice questions now show the feedback for all the options to students on the review page after the attempt is over.
- Integrate Feedback module?
Ver 2.0 release unk
Definitely in release 2.0
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- Moodle 2.0 will require PHP 5.2 as a minimum, allowing us to clean up the code in some areas. For more info see: gophp5.org
- Development:Portfolio API - Enovation.ie
- Interface Moodle activities and repositories to help produce portfolios for internal assessment AND external publication. The first Portfolio plugin implemented will be Mahara.
- Conditional activities - Moodle.com
- Allowing dependencies and forced paths through the content
- Community hub interfaces - Moodle.com and others
- Makes it easy for users to find and navigate other systems and external Moodle repositories, leveraging the Moodle Network in various ways.
Repository API - Open University, Moodle.com, Humboldt and Warp Networks
- Abstract all file operations to an API that allows plugins for different external repositories
- Old DB install/upgrade system removed
- The deprecated system for installing or upgrading database entries used in Moodle < 1.7 will be completely removed, while supporting only the new XML based database scheme introduced in 1.7
- New groups - Open University
- Site-wide groups, reusable groups, and assigning activities to groups are the major improvements being developed
Hopefully in 2.0
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- Integrate nwiki
- IMS Learning Design - Moodle.com
- Support for importing/exporting LD, converting Moodle activities and sequences of activities into a standard format for sharing, and importing standard sequences into Moodle courses
- API for integrating external systems for managing student information
- Moodle Voice is a project for embedding VoiceXML support into Moodle Core.
- Learning Design export? - Moodle.com and Open University of The Netherlands
- We plan to have a very simple export for any Moodle course into IMS LD format, as a proof of concept and to help the community start learning about IMS LD.
Older version features
Ver 1.8 to current 1.8.2 stable
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- Accessibility - Moodle.com
- The Moodle interface is now compliant with XHTML Strict 1.0 and major accessibility standards.
- Moodle Network - Catalyst, Richard Wyles
- We can now set up peer Moodle installations allowing users to roam from one site to another, using comprehensive SSO and transparent remote enrolments. Administrators at the originating Moodle install can see logs of remote activity. You can also run your Moodle in "Hub" mode where any Moodle install can connect and users roam across.
- Web Services API - Catalyst, Richard Wyles
- The Moodle Network code includes an XML-RPC call dispatcher that can expose the WHOLE Moodle API to trusted hosts. We will building on this in further versions but you can start using it now if you need to.
- Moodle forms library - Moodle.com
- Majority of forms now use a single API for defining forms consistently and collecting data safely without using any HTML at all.
- Multi Authentication - Iñaki Arenaza / Catalyst / Moodle.com
- It is now easier to configure multiple sources of authentication at once. WARNING: the format for authentication plugins has changed, so custom plugins may be broken, however it's very easy to convert old code to the new format. More details can be found in /auth/README.txt.
- Customisable User Profiles - Pukunui Technology
- Allow new arbitrary fields to be added to the user profile, with more control over what fields appear on what signup and profile editing screens.
- Groups refactor - OU / Moodle.com
Ver 1.7
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- 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 type in Question bank I think
- 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.)
Ver 1.6
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These features have cycled out of MoodleDocs, will have to dig up later.
