<dd>
<ul>
<li>New support for <strong>groups</strong> and cohorts within courses (with many options)</li>
- <li>A fantastic new <strong>glossary module</strong> (Thanks to Williams Castillo!)</li>
+ <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>
<li>An improved <strong>WYSIWYG editor</strong>, faster and more cross-platform than the old one.</li>
- <li><strong>Text filters</strong> allow arbitrary processing on all text in Moodle</li>
+ <li><strong>Text filters</strong> allow arbitrary processing on all text in Moodle, including automatic linking, mathematics support, multi-language content and infinitely more possibilities.</li>
<li>New <strong>label module</strong> allows arbitrary HTML in the course page</li>
<li><strong>Automatic backups</strong> can be scheduled by the administrator for all courses at once</li>
</ul>
<dt>Backup / Restore</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
+ <li>Automatic backups can be scheduled by the administrator for all courses at once</li>
<li>All needed users are now included in course backups (even if no longer enrolled)</li>
<li>Miscellaneous bugfixes</li>
</ul>
<dt>Text Filters and Formatting</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
- <li>Warning: the new text filters can increase the load on your server, particularly when used with complex filters. Use them with caution. For now, filters need to be enabled by manually editing the config.php file. See the <a href="http://moodle.org/download/modules/">Modules Download</a> page for details of other filters in development, including some exciting ones for creating and displaying mathematics formulae as cross-platform GIF images.</li>
- <li>The new glossary filter can create links to glossary entries from matching words throughout Moodle.</li>
- <li>The new 'censor' filter can be enabled to filter out bad words.</li>
+ <li>Warning: the new text filters can increase the load on your server, particularly when used with complex filters. Use them with caution. </li>
+ <li>The new <strong>glossary filter</strong> can create links to glossary entries from matching words throughout Moodle.</li>
+ <li>The new <strong>TeX filter</strong> can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image)</li>
+ <li>The new <strong>censor filter</strong> can be enabled to filter out bad words.</li>
+ <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>
<li>The <nolink> tag can be used to prevent autolinking within a passage of text.</li>
<li>More tags are now allowed, including <acronym> and all <math> tags.</li>
<li>Some areas where text wasn't being filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
- <dt>Developer API</dt>
+ <dt>Developer API</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>A new coding guide is available</li>
<li>Any module can save and retrieve user preferences that stay around between logins</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
<dt>Chats</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Scheduled chat times now show the timezone to make it clearer</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
<dt>Forums</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>When using the HTML editor to post, other formatting options are no longer provided.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
<dt>Journals</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Some fixes to the report page when assessing journal entries</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
- <dt>Quizzes</dt>
+ <dt>Quizzes</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
- <li>Fixed bug that occurred when re-grading SOME quizzes with random questions in them</li>
- <li>Fixed bug that occurred in backups of quizzes with random questions in them</li>
+ <li>Questions and categories can now be edited without needing to open a quiz</li>
+ <li>All questions can now use any of the Moodle editing formats</li>
<li>New import format: <strong>GIFT</strong> format (this is the new default format)</li>
<li>New import format: <strong>Course Test Manager</strong></li>
<li>New import format: <strong>WebCT</strong> format</li>
<li>New import format: <strong>Aiken</strong> format</li>
<li>Short-Answer questions can now use wildcards for matching eg wild*rds</li>
<li>Images now work in questions from external published categories</li>
- <li>Questions and categories can now be edited without needing to open a quiz</li>
<li>Improved the overview reports to show more info and allow deletion of attempts</li>
<li>Added a new detailed quiz report for statistical anaylsis</li>
<li>All question types can now have up to 10 answers each</li>
<li>Menus in quiz editing no longer need submit buttons (just select from menu)</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug that occurred when re-grading SOME quizzes with random questions in them</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug that occurred in backups of quizzes with random questions in them</li>
<li>Many other small bugs fixed</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<li>Video files (Media player, Quicktime) are embedded using local plugins</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
<dt>Workshops</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>New options for the league table</li>
</ul>
</dd>
-
-
<dt>Miscellaneous</dt>
<dd>
<ul>