What's new in Moodle 2.0?

1. What’s new in Moodle 2.0

2. 1. COURSE ORGANISATION

3. CONDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Basically “you can’t do this activity until that activity is completed” COURSE COMPLETION Allows 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 TRACKING Users can have learning plans, listing which courses should be attempted next based on which courses have been completed.

4. 2. NEW COMMUNITY FEATURES

5. 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)

6. 3. APPEARANCE

7. THEMESMoodle 2.0 will come with 20 brand new standard themes, making your Moodle look much nicer than ever before NAVIGATIONNavigation will be consistent throughout with a navigation block on every page. LAYOUTSBlocks and page layouts are consistent on every Moodle page and can now be docked like menus

8. USABILITYMoodle 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

9. 4. CHANGES TO ACTIVITY MODULES

10. WIKI 2.0Wiki 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

12. Improved ‘Question Bank’ search

15. 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

16. 3) Portfolio API – allows Moodle content to be captures and pushed out to external repositories

17. 6. OTHER MAJOR COMPONENTS

18. 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

19. 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

20. For more information email info@synergy-learning.com