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<h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
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<h3> New in Moodle 1.2.1 (25th March, 2004)</h3>
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<dt>Various small bug fixes</dt>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed some bugs that were causing survey graphs and results not to display in some circumstances</li>
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<li>Improved security in the cron script</li>
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<li>Fixed WebCT quiz import to deal with missing images, shortanswers and escaped characters</li>
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<li>Fixed formatting on editor dialog to insert links</li>
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<li>Prevent glossary from adding links to activity names that are already links</li>
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<li>Fixed some timezone calculations when user isn't present</li>
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<li>Characters like :( in Javascript code within filtered HTML are no longer converted to a sad smiley</li>
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<li>Improved handling of ratings for single forums when secureforms is on.</li>
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<li>Multichoice question creation now defaults to a single correct answer format</li>
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<li>Guests can no longer see email addresses if "show only to course participants" has been set by that user</li>
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<li>Primary admin is now the lowest-numbered entry in user_admins, rather than the admin with the lowest userid.</li>
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<li>Modified flash MP3 plugin to improve brightness of Play button on darker screens</li>
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<li>Various polishing and improvements in many language packs</li>
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<h3> New in Moodle 1.2 (20th March, 2004)</h3>
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<dt>Major new features</dt>
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<li>New support for <strong>groups</strong> and cohorts within courses (with many options)</li>
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<li><strong>Text filters</strong> allow arbitrary processing on all text in Moodle, including <strong>automatic linking</strong>, <strong>mathematics support</strong>, <strong>multi-language content</strong> and infinitely more possibilities</li>
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<li>A fantastic new <strong>Glossary module</strong> (thanks to Williams Castillo!) with many different ways to contruct learning activities based around collecting definitions</li>
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<li>A great new <strong>Lesson module</strong> (thanks to Ray Kingdon!) easily creates active content with pathways and multiple-choice questions</li>
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<li>A new <strong>Label module</strong> allows arbitrary HTML in the course page</li>
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<li>An improved <strong>WYSIWYG editor</strong>, faster and more cross-platform than the old one</li>
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<li><strong>Automatic backups</strong> can be scheduled by the administrator for all courses at once</li>
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<dt>Courses</dt>
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<li>Activities can now be indented on the course outline, allowing more structure</li>
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<li>A new report for Recent Activity makes it easier to see what's happened recently</li>
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<li>A new logs button on every activity links to the logs page to show logs per-activity</li>
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<li>Restore button now always functional</li>
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<li>Improved "index" view for all modules</li>
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<li>Improvements to participants display, including paging and initial searching</li>
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<li>Excel downloads are more compatible with different operating systems</li>
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<li>Better error reporting when adding/updating activities</li>
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<li>Search box no longer auto-focuses (it was causing annoying auto-scrolling on long courses)</li>
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<li>Self-unenrollment link on the course page for students</li>
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<li>Change password link on the course page for students</li>
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<li>Students can now be allowed to see their own activity reports (course setting)</li>
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<li>Teachers can browse the course files for images when using the new editor</li>
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<li>New image of empty box as destination when moving activities</li>
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<li>Accesses are now recorded by course, so the participant listings make more sense</li>
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<li>The activity navbar now has buttons for previous and next activities</li>
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<li>File dates were incorrect on some systems - this is now fixed.</li>
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<li>Old chat users are no longer shown in the recent activity</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Site administration</dt>
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<li>An important security fix preventing teachers from logging in as admins who are students in their course</li>
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<li>New setting "forcelogin" can force people to log in before they can see any of the site</li>
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<li>New setting "opentogoogle" allows Google and people referred by Google to get in as guest</li>
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<li>New setting "timezone" allows a default timezone to be set for the whole site</li>
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<li>New setting "deleteunconfirmed" specifies the time we'll wait for email accounts to be confirmed</li>
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<li>New setting "allowunenroll" enables/disables students from unenrolling themselves from courses</li>
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<li>New setting "fullnamedisplay" allows override for the formatting of user full names so students can only see "firstname lastname", "lastname firstname" or "firstname"</li>
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<li>Individual users can have their email disabled by the teacher or admin (useful for dealing with broken mail accounts that are bouncing)</li>
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<li>Upload sizes can now be controlled throughout Moodle using "maxbytes". There is a site limit (bounded by the current PHP limits), which itself is the upper bound for course limits, which is the upper bound for activity limits.</li>
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<li>Moodle cookies can be customised (helps when running multiple Moodles on one site)</li>
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<li>Included script for analysing database performance (admin/dbperformance.php)</li>
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<li>Included standalone script to check a server for Moodle compatibility (lib/compatible.php)</li>
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<li> If a file called cronextra.php exists in the dataroot then cron will run that too. This allows sites to have "special" maintenance features.</li>
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<li>Course formats are now more like plugins, in separate directories</li>
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<li>Users can now be uploaded from text files</li>
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<li>If $CFG->disableuserimages is defined (in config.php) then user images can not be changed</li>
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<li>If $CFG->admineditalways is defined then the administrator can edit ANY post at any time.</li>
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<li>If $CFG->filterall is defined then even little things liks forum subjects and activity names are filtered</li>
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<li>Support for restricted demo users (eg the teacher demo on Moodle.org) - usernames can be added to a list of names in config.php. eg $CFG->restrictusers = 'teacher,fred';</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Themes</dt>
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<li>Fixes for Internet Explorer can be more robust at using the style sheet</li>
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<li>Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to themes - <strong>custom themes need upgrading!</strong></li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Translations</dt>
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<li>New languages: Galego and Lithuanian</li>
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<li>Improved language editing interface - it allows the current language to be chosen and allows each file to be edited separately.</li>
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<li>The list of country names can now be translated, as can the editor buttons, smiley names and file sizes (Mb, Gb etc)</li>
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<li>Language packs can now define the default language direction (RTL or LTR)</li>
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<li>Language packs can now define the order that people's names should be shown in</li>
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<li>Language files are now written using slightly more efficient PHP code</li>
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<li>Finally got rid of the final bogus linefeeds in the multi-line strings</li>
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<li>Courses can now "force" a language on all users</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Backup / Restore</dt>
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<li>Automatic backups can be scheduled by the administrator for all courses at once</li>
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<li>Logs are now fully restored</li>
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<li>All needed users are now included in course backups (even if no longer enrolled)</li>
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<li>Miscellaneous fixes and improvements</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Text Filters and Formatting</dt>
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<li>Warning: the new text filters can increase the load on your server, particularly when used with complex filters. Use them with caution. </li>
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<li>The new <strong>glossary filter</strong> can create links to glossary entries from matching words throughout Moodle.</li>
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<li>The new <strong>TeX filter</strong> can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image). There is also an <strong>algebra</strong> filter with a simpler input format (more like calculators).</li>
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<li>The new <strong>censor filter</strong> can be enabled to filter out bad words.</li>
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<li>The new <strong>multilang filter</strong> allows texts to be entered in multiple languages, and only the best one will be shown to each user (depending on their language setting)</li>
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<li>The <nolink> tag can be used to prevent autolinking within a passage of text.</li>
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<li>More tags are now allowed, including <acronym> and all <math> tags.</li>
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<li>Some areas where text wasn't properly filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Developer API</dt>
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<li>A new coding guide is available</li>
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<li>A new Philosophy guide is available ;-)</li>
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<li>Improvements to the template for new modules</li>
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<li>Modules should now specify the minimum version of Moodle they are compatible with</li>
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<li>Scripts can specify to print_header() whether the page is pure XML</li>
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<li>Any module can save and retrieve user preferences that stay around between logins</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Chats</dt>
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<li>Chat sessions can now be deleted</li>
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<li>Scheduled chat times now show the timezone to make it clearer</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Forums</dt>
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<li>Forum viewing preferences are remembered between logins</li>
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<li>"Show parent" link on all posts for faster navigation around forums</li>
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<li>Anchor tags allow individual posts to be referenced in all views</li>
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<li>Improvements to cron job when manually run, as well as logging of mailer errors</li>
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<li>Only print the ratings button when there are ratings to be made</li>
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<li>Vastly improved email text versions of HTML forum posts</li>
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<li>When replying, an outline of other replies is shown.</li>
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<li>When using the HTML editor to post, other formatting options are no longer provided.</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Journals</dt>
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<li>Journal questions can now use the HTML editor</li>
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<li>Some fixes to the report page when assessing journal entries</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Quizzes</dt>
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<li>Questions and categories can now be edited without needing to open a quiz</li>
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<li>All questions can now use any of the Moodle editing formats</li>
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<li>New import format: <strong>GIFT</strong> format (this is the new default format)</li>
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<li>New import format: <strong>Course Test Manager</strong></li>
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<li>New import format: <strong>WebCT</strong> format</li>
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<li>New import format: <strong>Aiken</strong> format</li>
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<li>Short-Answer questions can now use wildcards for matching eg wild*rds</li>
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<li>Images now work in questions from external published categories</li>
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<li>Improved the overview reports to show more info and allow deletion of attempts</li>
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<li>Added a new detailed quiz report for statistical anaylsis</li>
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<li>All question types can now have up to 10 answers each</li>
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<li>Menus in quiz editing no longer need submit buttons (just select from menu)</li>
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<li>Fixed bug that occurred when re-grading SOME quizzes with random questions in them</li>
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<li>Fixed bug that occurred in backups of quizzes with random questions in them</li>
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<li>Many other small bugs fixed</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Resources</dt>
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<li>Teachers can browse files more directly when creating uploaded file</li>
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<li>New settings to allow a default URL, a default search page and default popup settings</li>
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<li>Uploaded files can appear in popups too.</li>
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<li>Much better display of popups when using the navbar to go there</li>
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<li>MP3 files are now streamed using a built-in Flash MP3 player</li>
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<li>Video files (Media player, Quicktime) are embedded using local plugins</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Workshops</dt>
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<li>Changes to handling of peer assessments</li>
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<li>New assessment phase</li>
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<li>New options for the league table</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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<dt>Miscellaneous</dt>
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<li>Moodle now ignores any folders that Frontpage may have added to it (_vti_cnf).</li>
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<li>Improved HTML -> XHTML in many places</li>
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<li>Many fixes for non-MySQL databases</li>
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<li>A few hard-coded text strings around the place were made translatable</li>
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<li>User profile data is now properly cleaned</li>
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<li>FIxes for when Moodle is embedded within a frame (eg in Postnuke)</li>
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<li>Bug fixes to Wiki mode</li>
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<li>Admin can no longer edit external accounts</li>
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<li>Qmail users can use "qmail" in the smtphosts field for better results</li>
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<li>Multiple methods of redirecting, to work around some browser bugs</li>
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<li>Small improvements to the display of grades in the gradebook</li>
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<li>More student profile fields can be edited, such as department and institution, and these are also written to grade dumps in text or Excel.</li>
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<li>When a student is added as a teacher, they are now automatically unenrolled from being a student</li>
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<li>Upgraded ADOdb (database layer)</li>
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