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+<h1>Notes de mise à jour</h1>
+<h3>Nouveautés de Moodle 1.1.1 (10 septembre 2003) :</h3>
+<ul>
+ <dl>
+ <dt> </dt>
+ <dt>Améliorations générales</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Améliorations de la traduction dans de nombreuses langues</li>
+ <li>Cadres corrigés lors de changements de langue dans la documentation</li>
+ <li>Toutes les balises abrégées de PHP sont supprimées.
+ L'option short_tags n'est plus nécessaire</li>
+ <li>Les liens dans les résultats de recherche des forums utilisent les ancrages
+ pour un meilleur contexte</li>
+ <li>Retrait de « target » dans le lien
+ « Supprimer » sur la page de modification des utilisateurs</li>
+ <li>Dans les cours informels, « Rechercher » est placé
+ plus haut pour éviter que le navigateur ne défile tout seul</li>
+ <li>La redirection est plus rapide et empêche Internet Explorer
+ d'enregistrer la page intermédiaire dans son historique</li>
+ <li>La liste des cours a été améliorée lors de
+ l'affichage des cours, avec plus d'informations</li>
+ <li>Les listes de discipline de cours affichent complètement les cours s'il
+ y en a moins que dix</li>
+ <li>Les cours masqués sont toujours affichés en dernier dans
+ « Mes cours »</li>
+ <li>Les responsables de cours peuvent maintenant voir les disciplines et les cours
+ masqués</li>
+ <li>Des styles sont été ajoutés pour les noms des disciplines
+ et des cours</li>
+ <li>Suppression des balises dans le texte des questions dans le rapport
+ « Statistique simple »</li>
+ <li>Ajout des pourcentages aux données téléchargées
+ du rapport « Statistique simple »</li>
+ <li>Permet les liens vers l'intérieur du site lors de l'utilisation du compte
+ anonyme ?username=guest</li>
+ <li>Tous les administrateurs peuvent maintenant ajouter et supprimer des
+ responsables de cours</li>
+ <li>L'administrateur principal peut maintenant changer son nom d'utilisateur et
+ son mot de passe, même avec une authentification externe</li>
+ <li>On peut indiquer « pas de notes » pour les tests, et
+ aucune note ne sera affichée</li>
+ <li>Lors de la modification d'une langue, les chaînes manquantes sont
+ créées si possible</li>
+ <li>Bogue corrigé dans le calcul des dates du journal hebdomadaire</li>
+ <li>Bogue corrigé dans config.php, qui empêchait le fonctionnement
+ de error_reporting</li>
+ <li>Bogue corrigé lors de la modification des noms d'utilisateur contenant
+ une apostrophe</li>
+ <li>Bogue corrigé dans le masquage des adresses de courriel contenant des
+ chiffres</li>
+ <li>Ajouté le schéma PostgreSQL manquant du module chat</li>
+ <li>Plusieurs fautes corrigées dans le code de mise à jour PostgreSQL</li>
+ <li>Correction de quelques variables sans initialisation</li>
+ <li>Plusieurs bogues corrigés dans le module atelier</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+</ul>
+<hr>
+
+
+
+<h3>Nouveautés de Moodle 1.1 (28 août 2003) :</h3>
+<ul>
+ <dl>
+ <dt> </dt>
+ <dt>Modifications pricipales</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Un système de <strong>backup</strong> complètement nouveau
+ permet d'effectuer des copies de sauvegarde et de les restaurer (Merci, Eloy !)</li>
+ <li>Un nouveau module<strong>atelier</strong> pour l'évaluation par les
+ pairs (merci, Ray !)</li>
+ <li>Un nouveau module <strong>chat</strong> pour les discussions synchrones</li>
+ <li>Tout nouveau <strong>gestionnaire de cours</strong> permettant de travailler
+ avec un grand nombre de cours (testé avec 3700 cours)</li>
+ <li><strong>Barèmes de notation</strong> personnalisés pouvant
+ être utilisés partout dans un cours</li>
+ <li>Améliorations des performances dans de nombreux domaines</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Généralités</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Clean up of the whole admin menu organisation to make it clearer</li>
+ <li>Categories can be nested and sorted alphabetically or manually</li>
+ <li>Courses and whole categories can be hidden from students</li>
+ <li>Course descriptions and names can be searched for keywords</li>
+ <li>Large categories are now completely paged</li>
+ <li>Improved web caching for stylesheets and images</li>
+ <li>"My courses" display on the home page when logged in.</li>
+ <li>Inclusion of non-linked page to display ALL user pictures at once
+ (see /userpix)</li>
+ <li>The "secureforms" feature now defaults to OFF.</li>
+ <li>Moodle now doesn't care if "magic quotes" is on or off.</li>
+ <li>Images in /pix were rearranged and tidied up</li>
+ <li>HTML email is better formatted for wider compatibility</li>
+ <li>Mail bounces are now sent to the admin user</li>
+ <li>Better cron tasks (less CPU used) and duplicate enrolments are now
+ cleaned</li>
+ <li>Improved display of logs with infinite paging and increased flexibility</li>
+ <li>User log graphs now work at site-level (showing ALL logs on the site)</li>
+ <li>People with manual accounts can now recover their password</li>
+ <li>Improved system for defining/printing help files for major activity
+ modules</li>
+ <li>Activity modules can now have settings</li>
+ <li>Email addresses are all completely obfuscated (to fool web spiders)</li>
+ <li>There is now an index to the help files</li>
+ <li>Library (Mark Kimes' add-on) is now supported if it is installed (see Moodle contrib for Library source)</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt></dt>
+ <dt>Courses</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Teachers can now have their course editing privileges removed</li>
+ <li>Teachers can now manually enrol students if they want to</li>
+ <li>Teacher management is now all combined in one interface</li>
+ <li>Activities can be moved any distance with two clicks</li>
+ <li>Topics/weeks can now be moved up and down</li>
+ <li>Pop-up menu to quickly switch between topics/weeks when collapsed</li>
+ <li>When self-enrolling, students are notified and given a chance to cancel</li>
+ <li>Teachers and students see list of "My Courses" on course
+ home pages.</li>
+ <li>Grades can be hidden from students if not needed</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt></dt>
+ <dt>Languages</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Hungarian</strong> and <strong>Greek</strong> 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 <a href="http://moodle.org/download/lang/">http://moodle.org/download/lang/</a>.</li>
+ <li>Updates and fixes to most languages</li>
+ <li>Languages now have a parent language (for displaying missing strings)</li>
+ <li>Some fixes for locales and time display in several languages</li>
+ <li>es_mx is being phased out in favour of "es" (International
+ Spanish) </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt></dt>
+ <dt>Forum</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Much improved searching, with multiple keywords, paging etc</li>
+ <li>Forum grading can be either off, used by everyone, or used only by teachers</li>
+ <li>Forum grading can use custom scales or numbers</li>
+ <li>A date range can be set to restrict the posts that can be graded.</li>
+ <li>Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules -> Forums </li>
+ <li>After editing a post, user is returned to post in context</li>
+ <li>Attached images are displayed inline</li>
+ <li>Email copies in plain text format now print URLs nicely</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Quiz</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New question type: Embedded Answers (Cloze) - allows text passages
+ with embedded answers</li>
+ <li>New question type: Numerical - allows a range of numerical answers
+ to be entered</li>
+ <li>New question type: Description - not a real question, it allows text/graphics
+ to be inserted anywhere</li>
+ <li>Expanded quiz reporting with modular report plugins</li>
+ <li>New feature for repeat attempts, where each attempt builds on the
+ last </li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ <li>Some refactoring to the quiz code to make it easier to extend with
+ new question types</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt></dt>
+ <dt>Resources</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Web links can now be in very customisable pop-up windows.</li>
+ <li>Admin now has access to some settings via Admin -> Modules ->
+ Resources</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Some of the more annoying bugs recently fixed</dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Moving posts now also moves attachments</li>
+ <li>No more warnings when looking for uploaded files in an empty course</li>
+ <li>Students no longer always get plain-format mail on force-subscribed
+ forums</li>
+ <li>Cookies can no longer interfere with the admin setup during installation</li>
+ <li>Effectively no limit to the number of activities per section</li>
+ <li>Several fixes when dealing with zip files, especially on Windows</li>
+ <li>Admins can now edit accounts created from external databases</li>
+ <li>Session no longer conflicts with other software</li>
+ <li>Excel files now work on non-Intel machines</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ <dl>
+ <dt> </dt>
+ </dl>
+ <dd> </dd>
+</ul>
+<hr>
+
+<h3> New in Moodle 1.0.9 (29th May, 2003) :</h3>
+<ul>
+ <dl>
+ <dt> General</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>Various optimisations and significant performance enhancements</li>
+ <li>Several obscure security fixes</li>
+ <li>Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame</li>
+ <li>Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields</li>
+ <li>New format "Plain text format", useful when posting code or HTML.</li>
+ <li>New format "Wiki format", allows Wiki-style tagging in most places</li>
+ <li>New popup allows emoticons/smilies to be inserted by clicking on images</li>
+ <li>Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server</li>
+ <li>Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode (some file problems remain)</li>
+ <li>Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc</li>
+ <li>Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility</li>
+ <li>Started migration of HTML code towards XHTML Transitional</li>
+ <li>Countless other little fixes all over the place</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Languages</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li><b>10</b> new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish, Russian, Polish, Chinese Traditional and French Canadian.</li>
+ <li>Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs</li>
+ <li>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 </li>
+ <li>Language menu can be restricted to a subset of languages and even removed.
+ <li>Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs</li>
+ <li>ALL dates/times can now be reformatted as part of the language pack</li>
+ <li>A small but annoying bug was fixed with the web-based language editor on Windows servers that caused language files to grow</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Developers</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>Global debug variable gives more feedback about uninitialised variables and the like</li>
+ <li>Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code</li>
+ <li>Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised)</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Admin</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li><font color=red>Some changed options and code in config-dist.php (if upgrading, compare with your current config.php or rebuild your config.php from scratch)</font></li>
+ <li><font color=red>Many changes to themes - authors of custom themes should read <a href="http://moodle.org/theme/UPGRADE.txt">theme/UPGRADE.txt</a> </font></li>
+ <li>New moodle.org registration function for security notifications etc</li>
+ <li>Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php)</li>
+ <li>User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings</li>
+ <li>Module management: activity modules can now be individually disabled or deleted completely</li>
+ <li>Improvements to the language editing page</li>
+ <li>Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings</li>
+ <li>Cleaner installation procedure.</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> User management</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses</li>
+ <li>New authentication plug-in named "manual", prevents users from creating their own accounts</li>
+ <li>"Forgot Password" routine now uses an email confirmation before resetting password</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Courses</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>Activities on the course page now have a little button to hide/show that activity to students</li>
+ <li>Whole topics/weeks can also now be hidden or shown</li>
+ <li>The list of participants now has some paging, to cope with very large classes</li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Assignments</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>Assignment submissions can be sorted</li>
+ <li>Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Forums</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>Display of forum discussions list is greatly improved</li>
+ <li>Whole discussions can be moved to any other forum with a single click</li>
+ <li>Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created"</li>
+ <li>Blank subject-lines or messages are now prevented</li>
+ <li>More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts</li>
+ <li>Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers)</li>
+ <li>Better handling of mailouts to prevent the possibility of double copies
+ that sometimes happened with very large classes</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Workshop Assignment module (not included: available soon as a separate download)</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>A very interesting new module contributed by Ray Kingdon,</li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Quizzes</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category)</li>
+ <li>New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions)</li>
+ <li>New question type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions
+ from the available Short Answer questions in the same category)</li>
+ <li>Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats - a beta Blackboard module is included)</li>
+ <li>'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz</li>
+ <li>Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled</li>
+ <li>Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled</li>
+ <li>Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used.</li>
+ <li>Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed</li>
+ <li>Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results</li>
+ <li>Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Resources</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources</li>
+ <li>Plain images are now display centered within a proper web page (not raw).</li>
+ <li>Wiki format added as a new option for Resource pages</li>
+ </dd>
+ <dt> Custom Themes</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <li>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
+ <a href="http://moodle.org/theme/UPGRADE.txt">theme/UPGRADE.txt</a>
+ TO SEE THE CHANGES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO OLDER THEMES.</li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+</ul>
+<hr>
+
+
+<p>Les anciennes notes de mise à jour sont disponibles dans le forum des nouvelles de
+<a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=1">Moodle.org</a>.
+
+
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