Інфармацыя для выдання

Навіны ў Moodle 1.1 (28 жніўня, 2003):

 

Найважнейшыя змены

• Новая сістэма стварэння запасных копій і ўзнаўлення курсаў (дзякуючы Eloy!)
• Новы змест практычнага курса (дзякуючы Ray!)
• Новы змест чат для сінхронных дыскусій
• Новая прылада для кіравання курсамі, якая дае магчымасць упраўляць вялікай колькасцю курсаў (пратэставана 3700)
• Акрэсленая карыстальнікам шкала адзнак, якія могуць быць выкарыстаны ў курсах
• Удасканалена дзейнасць у многіх сферах

Агульнае

• Больш празрыстая адміністратыўная панель
• Катэгорыі могуць быць усталяваны і рассартаваны па алфавіце або ўручную
• Курсы і цэлыя катэгорыі могуць быць схаваныя ад студэнтаў
• Можна шукаць па ключавых словах сярод назваў і апісанняў курсаў
• У вялікіх катэгорыях зараз маюцца старонкі
• Выпраўлены cachіng stylesheets, а таксама графіка
• "Мае курсы" высветлены на хатняй старонцы праз лагатып.
• Дабаўлена не злучаная старонка, якая ўключае ЎСЮ графіку, якая прадстаўляе карыстальнікаў (паглядзі /userpіx)
• Зменная "secureforms" цяпер прадбачліва ВЫКЛЮЧАНА.
• Для Moodle неістотна, ці ўключана "magic quotes".
• Выканана рэаранжацыя графікі ў каталогу /pіx
• Паведамленні e-maіl у фармаце HTML зараз лепш адфарматаваны, у мэтах дасягнення большай кампатыбільнасці.
• Maіl bounces зараз перасылаюцца адміністратару
• Палепшаны заданні, якія выконваюцца механізмам cron (менш абцяжаны CPU). Падвойныя запісы на курсы зараз анулююцца
• Палепшана высвятленне лагатыпаў з неабмежаваным stronіcowan
• Графікі лагатыпаў карыстальнікаў выпраўлены (паказваюць УСЕ лагатыпы карыстальніка на сэрвісе)
• Людзі, рэгістрацыя якіх створана ўручную, змогуць зараз адсылаць паролі
• Палепшана сістэма акрэслення/высвятлення файлаў дапамогі для складаючых курса
• Складальнікі курсаў маюць зараз кіраўніцтва для працы.
• Палепшана абслуга адрасоў e-maіl (каб адшукаць web spіders)
• Зараз даступны спіс усіх файлаў дапамогі
• Бібліятэка (дадатак Mark'a Kіmes'a ) зараз абслугоўваецца, калі яна заладаваная (паглядзі секцыю, прысвечаную ўкладу карыстальнікаў у развіццё Moodle)

Courses

• Teachers can now have their course editing privileges removed
• Teachers can now manually enrol students if they want to
• Teacher management is now all combined in one interface
• Activities can be moved any distance with two clicks
• Topics/weeks can now be moved up and down
• Pop-up menu to quickly switch between topics/weeks when collapsed
• When self-enrolling, students are notified and given a chance to cancel
• Teachers and students see list of "My Courses" on course home pages.
• Grades can be hidden from students if not needed

Languages

• Hungarian and Greek have been added, and there are lots of other updates. As usual, the language packs within this release may not be fully completed yet. You can always download the newest language packs from http://moodle.org/download/lang/.
• Updates and fixes to most languages
• Languages now have a parent language (for displaying missing strings)
• Some fixes for locales and time display in several languages
• es_mx is being phased out in favour of "es" (International Spanish)

Forum

• Much improved searching, with multiple keywords, paging etc
• Forum grading can be either off, used by everyone, or used only by teachers
• Forum grading can use custom scales or numbers
• A date range can be set to restrict the posts that can be graded.
• Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules -> Forums
• After editing a post, user is returned to post in context
• Attached images are displayed inline
• Email copies in plain text format now print URLs nicely

Quiz

• New question type: Embedded Answers (Cloze) - allows text passages with embedded answers
• New question type: Numerical - allows a range of numerical answers to be entered
• New question type: Description - not a real question, it allows text/graphics to be inserted anywhere
• Expanded quiz reporting with modular report plugins
• New feature for repeat attempts, where each attempt builds on the last
• If the quiz is closing within the next 24 hours, a small countdown clock is shown in the title bar and alerts warn at ten minutes and zero minutes.
• Some refactoring to the quiz code to make it easier to extend with new question types

Resources

• Web links can now be in very customisable pop-up windows.
• Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules -> Resources

Some of the more annoying bugs recently fixed

• Moving posts now also moves attachments
• No more warnings when looking for uploaded files in an empty course
• Students no longer always get plain-format mail on force-subscribed forums
• Cookies can no longer interfere with the admin setup during installation
• Effectively no limit to the number of activities per section
• Several fixes when dealing with zip files, especially on Windows
• Admins can now edit accounts created from external databases
• Session no longer conflicts with other software
• Excel files now work on non-Intel machines

 

New in Moodle 1.0.9 (29th May, 2003) :

General

• Various optimisations and significant performance enhancements
• Several obscure security fixes
• Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame
• Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields
• New format "Plain text format", useful when posting code or HTML.
• New format "Wiki format", allows Wiki-style tagging in most places
• New popup allows emoticons/smilies to be inserted by clicking on images
• Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server
• Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode (some file problems remain)
• Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc
• Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility
• Started migration of HTML code towards XHTML Transitional
• Countless other little fixes all over the place

Languages

• 10 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian, Polish, Chinese Traditional and French Canadian.
• Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs
• 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
• Language menu can be restricted to a subset of languages and even removed.
• Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs
• ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack
• A small but annoying bug was fixed with the web-based language editor on Windows servers that caused language files to grow

Developers

• Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like
• Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code
• Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)

Admin

• Some changed options and code in config-dist.php (if upgrading, compare with your current config.php or rebuild your config.php from scratch)
• Many changes to themes - authors of custom themes should read theme/UPGRADE.txt
• New moodle.org registration function for security notifications etc
• Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)
• User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings
• Module management: activity modules can now be individually disabled or deleted completely
• Improvements to the language editing page
• Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings
• Cleaner installation procedure.

User management

• New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses
• New authentication plug-in named "manual", prevents users from creating their own accounts
• "Forgot Password" routine now uses an email confirmation before resetting password

Courses

• Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to students
• Whole topics/weeks can also now be hidden or shown
• The list of participants now has some paging, to cope with very large classes
• Zip/Unzip is now supported by an internal zip library, removing the dependence on external programs to do this. This also means that zip/unzip now works on Windows.

Assignments

• Assignment submissions can be sorted
• Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students

Forums

• Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved
• Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click
• Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"
• Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented
• More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts
• Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)
• Better handling of mailouts to prevent the possibility of double copies that sometimes happened with very large classes

Workshop Assignment module (not included: available soon as a separate download)

• A very interesting new module contributed by Ray Kingdon,
• A flexible tool that implements a variety of peer-grading and example-setting schemes that involve a whole group in examining and grading pieces of work.

Quizzes

• New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)
• New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)
• New question type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)
• Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats - a beta Blackboard module is included)
• 'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz
• Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled
• Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled
• Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.
• Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed
• Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results
• Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3

Resources

• Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources
• Plain images are now display centered within a proper web page (not raw).
• Wiki format added as a new option for Resource pages

Custom Themes

• A number of new styles have been added to all built-in themes. Some of these are ESSENTIAL to viewing some of the new features. PLEASE SEE theme/UPGRADE.txt TO SEE THE CHANGES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO OLDER THEMES.
• Custom themes now have the capability to re-define all the little button graphics. There is a new entry in theme/x/config.php ($THEME->custompix) and a new optional subdirectory "pix". See the theme cordoroyblue for an example.

Older releases can be seen in the Moodle.org announcement forum.

Moodle Documentation

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