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<title>Moodle Docs: Current Release notes</title>
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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
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<h2>Moodle 1.5 (to be released shortly) </h2>
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<h3>Headline features</h3>
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<li> Web pages are compliant with XHTML Transitional 1.0</li>
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<li> Improved <b>Accessibility</b>, aiming for compliance with WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US) criteria.</li>
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<li> Very strong <b>new Themes system</b>, allowing cascading themes, user themes, course themes, with very fine control of every page in Moodle via CSS.</li>
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<li> Integrated <b>Messaging</b> feature for direct communication between all users in the site, featuring realtime popup windows, notification, email copies, blocking, history, WYSIWYG editor, etc</li>
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<li> Forum read/unread tracking with highlights allows you to see new postings at a glance and to control how these are displayed (per forum, per user or per site).</li>
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<li> New <b>Blocks</b> system, allowing multiple copies of blocks and better block configuration</li>
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<li> Full support for <b>Daylight Savings Time</b> in every locality around the globe, so everyone always see the correct local time for all events.</li>
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<li> New <b>extended gradebook</b> allowing custom weighting of different activities, setting extra grades (or taking out others) and improved display and sorting options </li>
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<li> Users can be required to agree to a <b>Site Policy</b> </li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Other Major System-wide Improvements</h3>
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<h4>Admin </h4>
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<li> New "maintenance mode" allows the admin to temporarily disable a site (during upgrades, for example).</li>
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<li> Moodle can automatically download a new list of timezones from moodle.org or elsewhere and install it to the database</a></li>
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<li> New version of Moodle MySQL Admin module (available separately)</li>
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<li> New calendar</a> options page provides user interface</a></a> to configure the behavior of the calendar</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Authentication</h4>
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<li> New Shibboleth Support</li>
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<li> New CAS Support</li>
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<li> New PAM Support</li>
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<li> Improved LDAP integration, so that LDAP can now control course creation, group assignments. Increased performance and scalability performing user synchronisation.</li>
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<li> Certain user fields can be locked by the admin when using external authentication</li>
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<li> Improved session handling now detects "crossover" sessions that we have found in some buggy PHP</a> installations and prevents them</li>
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<li> Sessions can now be stored in the database</a> (good for clustered installations!)</li>
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<li> Users can be forced to change their password </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Files</h4>
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<li> Standardised file browsing in all areas</li>
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<li> Improved uploading, with support for automated Virus scanning of new documents using ClamAV.</li>
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<li> Slasharguments</a> now work also on IIS (upgrade to PHP</a> 4.3.11 needed for ISAPI) </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Filters</h4>
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<li> Standardised filter</a> library makes it trivial to write new filters that require searching and highlighting of text.</li>
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<li> Huge efficiency improvements for complex filters like the Glossary filter</a></li>
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<li> New Tidy filter</a> uses the W3C Tidy program to (optionally) clean all user-entered texts throughout the site and convert it to valid XHTML</a> code</li>
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<li> Improved censorship filter</a>, now "blacks out" words using styles and uses a word list from the language packs.</li>
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<li> Improved Flash MP3 player, now shows progress bar while downloading and playing</li>
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<li> Improved Multi-language filter</a> is faster, more forgiving of syntax errors, and uses new editor-friendly syntax: <span lang="en"></span></li>
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<li> Auto-linking</a> filters (glossary, activities</a>) can work to link all the occurrences (old behaviour), once for each text block or only once for the whole page ($CFG->filtermatchonepertext, $CFG->filtermatchoneperpage).</li>
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<li> More text can now be filtered in Moodle, including activity names, headings and other such small texts. This makes it possible to design completely multi-lingual sites in Moodle that fully appears in the user's chosen language. </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Themes</a></h4>
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<li> Modules can provide standard styles </li>
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<li> Themes</a> can override required styles of other themes</a></li>
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<li> Users and courses can choose their own themes</a> if the admin allows it</li>
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<li> Implementation of tabs interface</a> on many pages </li>
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</ul>
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<h4> HTML Editor</a></h4>
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<li> The toolbuttons offered in the editor toolbar are now configurable by the admin</li>
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<li> Search and Replace text within the editor text area (with optional use of regular expressions) </li>
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</ul>
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<h4> Course management</h4>
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<li> Transparent Blackboard 5.5 course importing (partial 6.0 support)</li>
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<li> The new meta-courses allow to get users automatically enroled in a general course (the metacourse) when enroled in any of the metacourse-linked courses</li>
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<li> New tool to copy content from a course to other. </li>
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</ul>
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<h4> New blocks</a> </h4>
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<li> HTML block: allowing to place arbitrary content (text, images links) in any course mainpage </li>
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<li> Remote RSS</a> feed: allows to display external news channels inside a Moodle course</li>
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<li> Glossary Selection: to choose and display content from a Moodle glossary in course mainpage </li>
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</ul>
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<h4> Calendar</a></h4>
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<li> Major speed improvements for sites with a large number of courses using groups</a></li>
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<li> Repeating events can now be modified or deleted all at the same time or separately as before</li>
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<li> New "remember filter</a> settings" preference that allows calendar</a> filters to remember their status between logins </li>
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</ul>
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<h3> Activity Module Improvements</h3>
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<h4>Assignment</h4>
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<li> Completely refactored into a new class-based design, allowing new plugin-assignment types</li>
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<li> New Online Text assignment type that doesn't require files and allows inline comments when grading - this new type effectively replaces the old Journal module</a></li>
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<li> Vastly improved grading interface</a> for handling large classes</li>
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<li> New configuration options to disable late submission and to e-mail alerts to teachers when students submit new work </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Chat</h4>
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<li> Streamlined interface</a> looks smoother, works faster, even without using the optional server</a> daemon</li>
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<li> Blocks</a> can now be added to chat pages (e.g. for additional information) </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Choice</h4>
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<li> Rewritten to allow any number of choices</li>
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<li> The number of users per choice can be limited, which allows it to be used as tool for "signing up" to an array of options.</li>
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<li> You can now download</a> the results of the choice to XLS or a TXT file </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Forum</h4>
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<li> Powerful new Google-like forum searching tools</li>
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<li> Forum read/unread tracking - unread messages are highlighted on the course page, forum page, discussion listing and the discussion view</li>
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<li> The tracking system may be disabled by teachers/users </li>
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<li> User profiles show all posts by a user, as well as all discussions</li>
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<li> When admins edit user messages, a notice is attached </li>
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<li> Discussion listing shows the last user who posted to each discussion and when it was, with a direct link to that post</li>
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<li> In group-enabled forums the discussion listing shows the group the thread applies to, with a link to the group description page. </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Glossary</h4>
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<li> New setting to enable/disable the print view of each glossary.</li>
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<li> New search system looks for words everywhere (instead of doing exact phrase match).</li>
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<li> More information is sent to logs</a> to be able to track activity better. </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Journal</h4>
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<h4>Lesson</a></h4>
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<li> Now supports timed Lessons</li>
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<li> Can create practice Lessons (grades are not stored)</li>
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<li> Option for students to view points earned while taking the Lesson</a></li>
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<li> Allow students to review their answers before submitting the Lesson</a></li>
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<li> New Slide Show Mode (only branch tables are displayed as slides)</li>
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<li> New Left Menu (for enabled branch tables only)</li>
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<li> Lessons can now be Password Protected</li>
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<li> A Tree View can be used for the Lesson</a> creation screen</li>
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<li> Students can post their high scores</li>
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<li> New option to save a Lesson</a>'s settings as defaults for new lessons in the same course</li>
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<li> Can delete a student's attempts</li>
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<li> New page Jumps:
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<li> Previous Page</li>
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<li> Unseen question within a branch</li>
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<li> Random question within a branch</li>
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<li> Unseen question within a cluster </li>
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</li>
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<li> Added functionality to view Lesson</a> statistics</li>
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<li> New question type: Essay. Teachers can view each essay and write comments, assign a grade, and then email it all to the student</li>
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<li> New question creation interface</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Quiz</h4>
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<li> Can handle adaptive questions, i.e., questions that allow the student to interact with them repeatedly within the same quiz attempt and that can change in response to student answers.</li>
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<li> Student can be allowed to try a question again immediately within the same quiz attempt until they get the answer right.</li>
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<li> There is a penalty mechanism that deducts a specified fraction of the mark for each wrong attempt at a question.</li>
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<li> Allows questions rendered and scored externally (e.g., by mathematical assessment engines) to be integrated seamlessly into Moodle quizzes via the RQP web services protocol.</li>
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<li> Is prepared for the handling of IMS QTI questions once web services for these become available.</li>
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<li> New tabbed teacher interface</a> for previewing, editing, and reviewing quizzes.</li>
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<li> New "improved security" mode shows quiz in a separate full-screen window, with many browser features disabled</li>
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<li> Quizzes can be presented to students in several pages. The number of questions per page is selectable by the teacher.</li>
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<li> Blocks</a> can now be added to quiz pages (to show results table, or additional information etc)</li>
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<li> Better and cleaner interface</a> for question selection and management in the database</a>. Selected questions can be added to quiz, moved to other categories or deleted en mass.</li>
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<li> When a question is edited that is already in use the teacher can choose in which quizzes to replace the exising version with the new one.</li>
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<li> If a question is edited that already has student responses, these responses and a copy of the original version of the question are kept for auditing purposes.</li>
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<li> When a teacher makes changes to a quiz that already has student attempts these attempts are automatically remarked.</li>
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<li> Random questions are now added to the quiz question list with a dedicated button, leaving a cleaner interface</a> at questions database</a> without phantom placeholders</li>
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<li> Final grade can be a fractional number, with teacher-defined decimal figures </li>
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<li> Improved results page with user-selectable display of columns, cleaner sorting and new mark display options </li>
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<li> Questions can be edited with one click from the improved quiz preview and question preview screens.</li>
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<li> Questions can be copied with one click, to allow question variations to be created with ease.</li>
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<li> Revamped question categories structures and editing interface</a>. </li>
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<li> Categories now can contain nested subcategories and can be re-ordered. </li>
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<li> It is possible to select whether questions from categories, and or their subcategories are displayed on the question edit page. </li>
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<li> It is now possible to select whether to add random questions from a parent category alone, or from a parent category and its sub-categories. </li>
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<li> Quiz creators are prevented from changing the question set of quizes that have had student responses. </li>
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<li> Recognition, and rejection, of overlapping/redundant questions has been improved. </li>
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<li> The display of questions in longer quiz categories on the quiz editing page is now paginated. </li>
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<li> New export types - IMS QTI (2.0) and xhtml</a>. Improvements & fixes to others.</li>
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<li> New import type - Hot Potato. Improvements & fixes to others. </li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Scorm </h4>
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<li> Improvements to user result data storage and reporting. Now Moodle SCORM module</a> supports AICC standard </li>
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<h4>Survey</h4>
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<h4>Wiki </h4>
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<li> Changes to wiki pages are now monitored and displayed in Recent Activity block</li>
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<li> Several under the hood improvements to backup/restore and other routines that enhance the reliability of wikis </li>
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<div align="center" class="style1"><strong><font size="+1">If you experience any bugs in this release, please report them <a href="http://moodle.org/bugs" target="_blank">moodle.org/bugs</a> so we can fix them in the next release.</font></strong></div>
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<a href="./?file=releaseold.html">Old release information</a>
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<p align="center"><font size="1"><a href="../doc/" target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="1">Version: $Id$</font></p>
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