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What's new in Moodle 2.0?
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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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