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<H2>Release notes</H2>
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<H3> Coming in Moodle 1.1 (20th August, 2003):</H3>
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<UL><DL>
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<DT> This summary is in progress and still to be finalised.</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Completely new chat module for synchronous discussions</LI>
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<LI>Completely new workshop module for peer grading</LI>
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<LI>Completely new system for backup/restore of courses</LI>
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<LI>All-new course browser (handles large numbers of courses)</LI>
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<LI>Courses and categories can be hidden from students</LI>
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<LI>Activities can move any distance with two clicks</LI>
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<LI>Topics/weeks can now be moved up and down</LI>
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<LI>Pop-up menu to switch between topics/weeks</LI>
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<LI>THREE new quiz question types: Numerical, Description and Multianswer (Cloze)</LI>
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<LI>Expanded quiz reporting</LI>
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<LI>Lots of new languages</LI>
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<LI>Languages now have a parent language (for displaying missing strings)</LI>
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<LI>Web links can be in pop-up windows</LI>
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<LI>Consistent grading scheme throughout all modules (tbd)</LI>
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<LI>Better control over peer-grading in forums (tbd)</LI>
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<LI>Ability to add text between activities in course display (tbd)</LI>
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<LI>Ability to indent activities in course display (tbd)</LI>
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<LI>Improved program resources, allowing more variables and control (tbd)</LI>
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<LI>Many more improvements and fixes yet to be listed</LI>
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</DD>
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<H3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (29th May, 2003) :</H3>
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<DT> General</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Various optimisations and significant performance enhancements</LI>
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<LI>Several obscure security fixes</LI>
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<LI>Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame</LI>
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<LI>Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields</LI>
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<LI>New format "Plain text format", useful when posting code or HTML.</LI>
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<LI>New format "Wiki format", allows Wiki-style tagging in most places</LI>
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<LI>New popup allows emoticons/smilies to be inserted by clicking on images</LI>
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<LI>Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server</LI>
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<LI>Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode (some file problems remain)</LI>
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<LI>Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc</LI>
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<LI>Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility</LI>
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<LI>Started migration of HTML code towards XHTML Transitional</LI>
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<LI>Countless other little fixes all over the place</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Languages</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI><B>10</B> new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian, Polish, Chinese Traditional and French Canadian.</LI>
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<LI>Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs</LI>
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<LI>Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by something to the url, eg: http://moodle.org/?lang=ru </LI>
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<LI>Language menu can be restricted to a subset of languages and even removed.
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<LI>Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs</LI>
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<LI>ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack</LI>
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<LI>A small but annoying bug was fixed with the web-based language editor on Windows servers that caused language files to grow</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Developers</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like</LI>
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<LI>Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code</LI>
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<LI>Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Admin</DT>
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<LI><font color=red>Some changed options and code in config-dist.php (if upgrading, compare with your current config.php or rebuild your config.php from scratch)</font></LI>
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<LI><font color=red>Many changes to themes - authors of custom themes should read <A HREF="http://moodle.org/theme/UPGRADE.txt">theme/UPGRADE.txt</A> </font></LI>
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<LI>New moodle.org registration function for security notifications etc</LI>
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<LI>Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)</LI>
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<LI>User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings</LI>
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<LI>Module management: activity modules can now be individually disabled or deleted completely</LI>
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<LI>Improvements to the language editing page</LI>
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<LI>Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings</LI>
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<LI>Cleaner installation procedure.</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> User management</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses</LI>
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<LI>New authentication plug-in named "manual", prevents users from creating their own accounts</LI>
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<LI>"Forgot Password" routine now uses an email confirmation before resetting password</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Courses</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to students</LI>
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<LI>Whole topics/weeks can also now be hidden or shown</LI>
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<LI>The list of participants now has some paging, to cope with very large classes</LI>
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<LI>Zip/Unzip is now supported by an internal zip library, removing
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the dependence on external programs to do this. This also means that
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zip/unzip now works on Windows.</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Assignments</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Assignment submissions can be sorted</LI>
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<LI>Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Forums</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved</LI>
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<LI>Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click</LI>
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<LI>Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"</LI>
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<LI>Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented</LI>
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<LI>More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts</LI>
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<LI>Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)</LI>
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<LI>Better handling of mailouts to prevent the possibility of double copies
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that sometimes happened with very large classes</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Workshop Assignment module (not included: available soon as a separate download)</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>A very interesting new module contributed by Ray Kingdon,</LI>
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<LI>A flexible tool that implements a variety of peer-grading and
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example-setting schemes that involve a whole group in examining
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and grading pieces of work.</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Quizzes</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)</LI>
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<LI>New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)</LI>
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<LI>New question type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
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from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)</LI>
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<LI>Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats - a beta Blackboard module is included)</LI>
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<LI>'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz</LI>
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<LI>Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled</LI>
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<LI>Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled</LI>
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<LI>Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.</LI>
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<LI>Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed</LI>
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<LI>Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results</LI>
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<LI>Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Resources</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources</LI>
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<LI>Plain images are now display centered within a proper web page (not raw).</LI>
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<LI>Wiki format added as a new option for Resource pages</LI>
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</DD>
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<DT> Custom Themes</DT>
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<DD>
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<LI>A number of new styles have been added to all built-in themes. Some of these are ESSENTIAL
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to viewing some of the new features. PLEASE SEE
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<A HREF="http://moodle.org/theme/UPGRADE.txt">theme/UPGRADE.txt</A>
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TO SEE THE CHANGES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO OLDER THEMES.</LI>
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<LI>Custom themes now have the capability to re-define all the little button graphics.
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There is a new entry in theme/x/config.php ($THEME->custompix) and a new
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optional subdirectory "pix". See the theme cordoroyblue for an example.</LI>
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</DD>
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</DL></UL>
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<HR>
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<P>Older releases can be seen in the <A HREF="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=1">Moodle.org announcement forum</A>.
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<P> </P>
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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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