moodle 2.1 has been released!
Bayu Widyasanyata
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=180453
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Moodle 2.1 has been released!
by Martin Dougiamas - Monday, July 4, 2011, 05:54 AM
I'm very pleased to announce the release of Moodle 2.1, which became
available in packaged form from the Moodle download page on July 1, or
can be accessed directly from our git repository or one of our CVS
mirrors.
This is the first of our releases made with our new development
process which emphasises release dates over features. As a result
it's right on schedule, but a few features we'd hoped to include were
not quite finished in time.
You can read more on the Moodle 2.1 release notes, but the major new
features are:
A whole new question engine (used by quizzes, for example), which
makes questions more robust and will enable developers to create all
kinds of interesting question types in the future. Some interesting
new features like Certainty-Based Marking have also been added. Huge
thanks are due to Tim Hunt and Open University for all their work on
this.
Restoring of Moodle 1.9 backups is now possible! Thanks to
Moodlerooms for their help in some of the key parts of the core work
and to the HQ team for the rest. This was a very complex thing to
build due to the many changes between 1.9 and 2.x. Note that only
course content in core modules is restored: if you use other activity
modules then you need to ask (or help) the developers of those modules
to add the new module restore code (thanks to the design this is not a
huge task to implement).
Moodle 2.1 now directly supports mobile apps for some functions.
The new Moodle app for iPhone (by Moodle HQ) will be released soon
(followed by an Android version later) and these require the secure
web services of Moodle 2.1 or later. In addition, there is direct
support for mobile-specific Moodle Themes and automatic detection of
mobile browsers.
There are many other smaller improvements too, but one of the ones I
really like is the new and improved configuration interface for
blocks. You should find it a lot easier to understand than the one in
Moodle 2.0.
Thanks again to all the developers involved in fixing things large and
small in Moodle 2.1 (roughly 100 developers and many more testers).
The HQ team will continue working on 2.1.x for a few weeks before
starting to concentrate more on 2.2.
Cheers!
Martin
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