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Moodle 2.0What’s new in

1. COURSE ORGANISATION

CONDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Basically “you can’t do this activity until that activity is completed” COURSE COMPLETIONAllows teachers to specify conditions that define when a student has completed a course and keeps a record of which users have completed each course. PROGRESS TRACKINGUsers can have learning plans, listing which courses should be attempted next based on which courses have been completed.

2. NEW COMMUNITY FEATURES

Some of the highlights of the new

Community Features include:

It will be easier for teachers to find other

courses to download as templates for

their own courses

It is also easier to find enrollable courses

on other sites (for students or community

participation)

3. APPEARANCE

THEMES Moodle 2.0 will come with 20

brand new standard themes, making your

Moodle look much nicer than ever before

NAVIGATION Navigation will be

consistent throughout with a navigation

block on every page.

LAYOUTS Blocks and page layouts

are consistent on every Moodle page

and can now be docked like menus

USABILITY Moodle has addressed

issues that users have highlighted to

make Moodle 2.0 more user friendly

HTML EDITOR 2.0 Replaces the

existing HTML area and works on

more browsers, enforces XHTML

strict and integrates better with

the new File API

4. CHANGES TO ACTIVITY

MODULES

WIKI 2.0 Wiki 2.0 will be cleaned up

and included as a core module

QUIZ MODULE & QUESTION BANK

- Improvements to the quiz reports

- Improved quiz navigation for students

- Additional option to ‘flag’ questions during quizzes

QUIZ MODULE & QUESTION BANK

- Improvements to quiz editinginterface

- Essay questions can now berandomized

- Improved ‘Question Bank’ search- Question tagging

LESSON MODULE

- Converted to use Moodle forms to maintain consistency

- Refactored code to make itmaintainable

5. FILE HANDLING

REQUIREMENTS

The following file handling requirements

are separate but complementary:

1) Repository API – allows users to

browse external repositories using a

filepicker & select files to bring into

Moodle

2) File API – maintains an internal

repository of files & governs access

to them

3) Portfolio API – allows Moodle

content to be captures and pushed out

to external repositories

6. OTHER MAJOR COMPONENTS

BACK-UP 2.0. – Backing up will be

faster and work on large scale

courses (old back-ups can be imported)

BLOG 2.0 - You can now add

commenting to blogs

COMMENTING - Commenting on

Moodle has been refactored into

one central system

RSS FEEDS - Secure RSS feeds

TAGGING - More tagging for courses

activities etc.

MESSAGING 2.0 - Refactored

messaging to use plugins for input

and output, controlled by users

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