<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">\r
-<HTML>\r
-<HEAD>\r
- <TITLE>Moodle Docs: Background</TITLE>\r
- <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../theme/standard/styles.php" TYPE="TEXT/CSS">\r
- <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
-</HEAD>\r
-<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">\r
+<html>\r
+<head>\r
+ <title>Moodle Docs: Background</title>\r
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/standard/styles.php" type="TEXT/CSS">\r
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
+</head>\r
+<body bgcolor="#ffffff">\r
\r
-<H2>Background</H2>\r
+<h2>Background</h2>\r
\r
-<P>Moodle is an active and evolving work in progress.</P>\r
-<P>I've been working on it, in some way or other, for several years. It started \r
- in the 90's when I was webmaster at <a target=_top href="http://www.curtin.edu.au/">Curtin University \r
- of Technology</a> and a system administrator of their WebCT installation. I \r
- encountered many frustrations with the WebCT beast and developed an itch that \r
- needed scratching - there had to be a better way (no, not Blackboard :-)</P>\r
-<P>I also know a lot of people in schools and smaller institutions (and some big \r
- ones!) who want to make better use of the Internet but don't know where to start \r
- in the maze of technologies and pedagogies that are out there. I've always hoped \r
- there would be a Free alternative that such people could use to help them move \r
- their teaching skills into the online environment.</P>\r
-<P>My strong beliefs in the unrealised possibilities of Internet-based education \r
- led me to complete a Masters and then a PhD in Education, combining my former \r
- career in Computer Science with newly constructed knowledge about the nature \r
- of learning and collaboration.</P>\r
-<P>Since then Moodle has progressed through several very different prototypes \r
- until the release of version 1.0 upon a largely unsuspecting world on \r
- August 20, 2002 and a steady series of improved releases since then.\r
-<P>I've been using it in several courses and find it an \r
- extremely usable and reliable tool for building high-quality online courses \r
- - others are reporting the same. Given the context in which it's been designed, \r
- it works particularly well for smaller institutions, or for smaller, more intimate \r
- classes.</P>\r
-<P>When compared to the big commercial tools such as WebCT or Blackboard I think \r
- it still falls short in some areas (such as scalability and standards support), \r
- but it comes out ahead in many others (see <a href="index.php?file=features.html">Features</a>). \r
-</P>\r
-<P> </P>\r
+<p>Moodle is an active and evolving work in progress. Development was started \r
+ by <a href="http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=1&course=1" target="_top">Martin \r
+ Dougiamas</a> who continues to lead the project:</p>\r
+<blockquote>\r
+ <p><em>I've been working on it, in some way or other, for several years. It \r
+ started in the 90's when I was webmaster at <a target=_top href="http://www.curtin.edu.au/">Curtin \r
+ University of Technology</a> and a system administrator of their WebCT installation. \r
+ I encountered many frustrations with the WebCT beast and developed an itch \r
+ that needed scratching - there had to be a better way (no, not Blackboard \r
+ :-)</em></p>\r
+ <p><em>I also know a lot of people in schools and smaller institutions (and \r
+ some big ones!) who want to make better use of the Internet but don't know \r
+ where to start in the maze of technologies and pedagogies that are out there. \r
+ I've always hoped there would be a Free alternative that such people could \r
+ use to help them move their teaching skills into the online environment. </em></p>\r
+ <p><em>My strong beliefs in the unrealised possibilities of Internet-based education \r
+ led me to complete a Masters and then a PhD in Education, combining my former \r
+ career in Computer Science with newly constructed knowledge about the nature \r
+ of learning and collaboration. In particular, I am particularly influenced \r
+ by the epistemology of social constructionism - which not only treats learning \r
+ as a social activity, but focusses attention on the learning that occurs while \r
+ actively constructing artifacts (such as texts) for others to see or use. \r
+ </em></p>\r
+ <p><em>It is crucial to me that this software be easy to use - in fact it should \r
+ be as intuitive as possible. </em></p>\r
+ <p><em>I'm committed to continuing my work on Moodle and on keeping it Open \r
+ and Free. I have a deeply-held belief in the importance of unrestricted education \r
+ and empowered teaching, and Moodle is the main way I can contribute to the \r
+ realisation of these ideals.</em></p>\r
+</blockquote>\r
+<p>A number of early prototypes were produced and discarded before he released \r
+ version 1.0 upon a largely unsuspecting world on August 20, 2002. This version \r
+ was targeted towards smaller, more intimate classes at University level, and \r
+ was the subject of research case studies that closely analysed the nature of \r
+ collaboration and reflection that occurred among these small groups of adult \r
+ participants.\r
+<p>Since then there has been steady series of new releases adding new features, \r
+ better scalability and improved performance. \r
+<p>As Moodle has spread and the community has grown, more input is being drawn \r
+ from a wider variety of people in different teaching situations. For example, \r
+ Moodle is now used not only in Universities, but in high schools, primary schools, \r
+ non-profit organisations, private companies, by independent teachers and even \r
+ homeschooling parents. A growing number of people from around the world are \r
+ contributing to Moodle in different ways - for more details see the <a href="?file=credits.html">Credits</a> \r
+ page. \r
+<p>An important feature of the Moodle project is the <a href="http://moodle.org" target="_top">moodle.org</a> \r
+ web site, which provides a central point for information, discussion and collaboration \r
+ among Moodle users, who include system administrators, teachers, researchers, \r
+ instructional designers and of course, developers. Like Moodle, this site is \r
+ always evolving to suit the needs of the community, and like Moodle it will \r
+ always be Free.\r
+<p>Later in 2003, <a href="http://moodle.com/">moodle.com</a> will be launched \r
+ as a company providing additional commercial support for those need it, as a \r
+ well as a variety of exciting new services.\r
+<p>For more about our future plans for Moodle, see the <a href="?file=future.html">Future</a> \r
+ roadmap.</p>\r
\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="." TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">Version: $Id$</FONT></P>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1"><a href="." target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1">Version: $Id$</font></p>\r
\r
-</BODY>\r
-</HTML>\r
+</body>\r
+</html>\r
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">\r
-<HTML>\r
-<HEAD>\r
- <TITLE>Moodle Docs: Background</TITLE>\r
- <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../theme/standard/styles.php" TYPE="TEXT/CSS">\r
- <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
-</HEAD>\r
-<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">\r
+<html>\r
+<head>\r
+ <title>Moodle Docs: Background</title>\r
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/standard/styles.php" type="TEXT/CSS">\r
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
+</head>\r
+<body bgcolor="#ffffff">\r
\r
-<H2>Features</H2>\r
-<p>Moodle is an active and evolving product. This page lists some of the many \r
- features it contains:</p>\r
+<h2>Features</h2>\r
+<p>Moodle is an active and evolving product. This page lists just some of the \r
+ many features it contains:</p>\r
<p><strong>Overall design</strong></p>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical \r
- reflection, etc)</LI>\r
- <LI>Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning \r
- <LI>Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface</LI>\r
- <LI>Easy to install on almost any platform that supports PHP. Requires only \r
- one database.</LI>\r
- <LI>Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except \r
- for initial table definition)</LI>\r
- <LI>Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including \r
- accessibility to guests.</LI>\r
- <LI>Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, \r
- cookies encrypted etc</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical \r
+ reflection, etc)</li>\r
+ <li>Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning \r
+ <li>Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface</li>\r
+ <li>Easy to install on almost any platform that supports PHP. Requires only \r
+ one database (and can share it).</li>\r
+ <li>Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except \r
+ for initial table definition)</li>\r
+ <li>Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including \r
+ accessibility to guests.</li>\r
+ <li>Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, \r
+ cookies encrypted etc</li>\r
+ <li>Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings, journal entries etc) can \r
+ be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor</li>\r
+</ul>\r
<p><strong>Site management</strong></p>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Site is managed by an admin user, defined during setup</LI>\r
- <LI>Plug-in "themes" allow the admin to customise the site colours, fonts, layout \r
- etc to suit local needs</LI>\r
- <LI>Plug-in activity modules can be added to existing Moodle installations</LI>\r
- <LI>Plug-in language packs allow full localisation to any language. These can \r
- be edited using a built-in web-based editor. Currently there are language packs\r
- for more than <A HREF="http://moodle.org/download/lang/" TARGET="_top">28 languages</A>.</LI>\r
- <LI>The code is clearly-written PHP under a GPL license - easy to modify to \r
- suit your needs</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Site is managed by an admin user, defined during setup</li>\r
+ <li>Plug-in "themes" allow the admin to customise the site colours, fonts, layout \r
+ etc to suit local needs</li>\r
+ <li>Plug-in activity modules can be added to existing Moodle installations</li>\r
+ <li>Plug-in language packs allow full localisation to any language. These can \r
+ be edited using a built-in web-based editor. Currently there are language \r
+ packs for more than <a href="http://moodle.com/download/lang/" target="_top">28 \r
+ languages</a>.</li>\r
+ <li>The code is clearly-written PHP under a GPL license - easy to modify to \r
+ suit your needs</li>\r
+</ul>\r
<p><strong>User management</strong></p>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high \r
- security</LI>\r
- <LI>Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication \r
- modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.</LI>\r
- <LI>Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email \r
- addresses are verified by confirmation.</LI>\r
- <LI>LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin \r
- can specify which fields to use.</LI>\r
- <LI>IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. \r
- SSL, certificates and TLS are supported.</LI>\r
- <LI>External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used \r
- as an external authentication source.</LI>\r
- <LI>Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account \r
- can have different access</LI>\r
- <LI>An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by \r
- assigning users to courses</LI>\r
- <LI>Security - teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep \r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high \r
+ security</li>\r
+ <li>Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication \r
+ modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.</li>\r
+ <li>Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email \r
+ addresses are verified by confirmation.</li>\r
+ <li>LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin \r
+ can specify which fields to use.</li>\r
+ <li>IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. \r
+ SSL, certificates and TLS are supported.</li>\r
+ <li>External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used \r
+ as an external authentication source.</li>\r
+ <li>Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account \r
+ can have different access</li>\r
+ <li>An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by \r
+ assigning users to courses</li>\r
+ <li>Security - teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep \r
out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal \r
- email etc</LI>\r
- <LI>Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically \r
- unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)</LI>\r
- <LI>Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. \r
- Email addresses can be protected from display if required.</LI>\r
- <LI>Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Moodle is translated \r
- to that timezone (eg posting dates, assignment due dates etc)</LI>\r
- <LI>Every user can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, \r
- French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
+ email etc</li>\r
+ <li>Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically \r
+ unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)</li>\r
+ <li>Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. \r
+ Email addresses can be protected from display if required.</li>\r
+ <li>Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Moodle is translated \r
+ to that timezone (eg posting dates, assignment due dates etc)</li>\r
+ <li>Every user can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, \r
+ French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)</li>\r
+</ul>\r
<p><strong>Course management</strong></p>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Teacher has full control over all settings for a course</LI>\r
- <LI>Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed \r
- social format</LI>\r
- <LI>Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, \r
- Choices, Surveys, Assignments.</LI>\r
- <LI>Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the \r
- course home page - helps give sense of community</LI>\r
- <LI>Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings, journal entries etc) can \r
- be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor</LI>\r
- <LI>All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on \r
- one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)</LI>\r
- <LI>Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available \r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Teacher has full control over all settings for a course</li>\r
+ <li>Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed \r
+ social format</li>\r
+ <li>Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, \r
+ Choices, Surveys, Assignments.</li>\r
+ <li>Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the \r
+ course home page - helps give sense of community</li>\r
+ <li>Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings, journal entries etc) can \r
+ be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor</li>\r
+ <li>All grades for Forums, Journals, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on \r
+ one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)</li>\r
+ <li>Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available \r
with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) \r
as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings, \r
- journal entries etc on one page.</LI>\r
- <LI>Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed \r
- in HTML or plain text.</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<B>Assignment Module</B> \r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.</LI>\r
- <LI>Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - \r
- they are date-stamped.</LI>\r
- <LI>Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly \r
- to the teacher</LI>\r
- <LI>For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and \r
- comment) on one page in one form.</LI>\r
- <LI>Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and \r
- notification is mailed out.</LI>\r
- <LI>The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading \r
- (for regrading)</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<P><B>Choice Module</B> </P>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback \r
- from every student (eg research consent)</LI>\r
- <LI>Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<P><B>Forum Module</B> </P>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, \r
- open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.</LI>\r
- <LI>All postings have the authors photo attached.</LI>\r
- <LI>Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.</LI>\r
- <LI>Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are \r
- forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all</LI>\r
- <LI>The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only \r
- forum)</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<B>Journal Module</B> \r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Journals are private between student and teacher.</LI>\r
- <LI>Each journal entry can be directed by an open question.</LI>\r
- <LI>For each particular journal entry, the whole class can be assessed on one \r
- page in one form</LI>\r
- <LI>Teacher feedback is appended to the journal entry page, and notification \r
- is mailed out.</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<P><B>Quiz Module</B> </P>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different quizzes</LI>\r
- <LI>Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are \r
- modified </LI>\r
- <LI>Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available</LI>\r
- <LI>At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can \r
- show feedback and/or correct answers</LI>\r
- <LI>Questions allow HTML and images</LI>\r
- <LI>Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers</LI>\r
- <LI>Short Answer questions (words or phrases)</LI>\r
- <LI>True-False questions </LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<P><B>Resource Module</B> </P>\r
-<UL>\r
- <LI>Supports display of any electronic content</LI>\r
- <LI>Files can be uploaded and managed on the server, or created on the fly using \r
- web forms (text or HTML)</LI>\r
- <LI>External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within \r
- the course interface.</LI>\r
-</UL>\r
-<B>Survey Module</B> \r
-<UL><LI>Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes</LI><LI>Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.</LI><LI>Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.</LI><LI>Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages</UL>\r
+ journal entries etc on one page.</li>\r
+ <li>Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed \r
+ in HTML or plain text.</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<b>Assignment Module</b> \r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.</li>\r
+ <li>Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - \r
+ they are date-stamped.</li>\r
+ <li>Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly \r
+ to the teacher</li>\r
+ <li>For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and \r
+ comment) on one page in one form.</li>\r
+ <li>Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and \r
+ notification is mailed out.</li>\r
+ <li>The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading \r
+ (for regrading)</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<p><b>Choice Module</b> </p>\r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback \r
+ from every student (eg research consent)</li>\r
+ <li>Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what</li>\r
+ <li>Students can optionally be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<p><b>Forum Module</b> </p>\r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, \r
+ open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.</li>\r
+ <li>All postings have the authors photo attached.</li>\r
+ <li>Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.</li>\r
+ <li>Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are \r
+ forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all</li>\r
+ <li>The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only \r
+ forum)</li>\r
+ <li>Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<b>Journal Module</b> \r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Journals are private between student and teacher.</li>\r
+ <li>Each journal entry can be directed by an open question.</li>\r
+ <li>For each particular journal entry, the whole class can be assessed on one \r
+ page in one form</li>\r
+ <li>Teacher feedback is appended to the journal entry page, and notification \r
+ is mailed out.</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<p><b>Quiz Module</b> </p>\r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different quizzes</li>\r
+ <li>Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these categories \r
+ can be "published" to make them accessible from any course on the \r
+ site. </li>\r
+ <li>Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are \r
+ modified </li>\r
+ <li>Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available</li>\r
+ <li>At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can \r
+ show feedback and/or correct answers</li>\r
+ <li>Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating</li>\r
+ <li>Questions allow HTML and images</li>\r
+ <li>Questions can be imported from external text files</li>\r
+ <li>Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers</li>\r
+ <li>Short Answer questions (words or phrases)</li>\r
+ <li>True-False questions </li>\r
+ <li>Matching questions</li>\r
+ <li>Random questions</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<p><b>Resource Module</b> </p>\r
+<ul>\r
+ <li>Supports display of any electronic content, Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video, \r
+ Sounds etc</li>\r
+ <li>Files can be uploaded and managed on the server, or created on the fly using \r
+ web forms (text or HTML)</li>\r
+ <li>External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within \r
+ the course interface.</li>\r
+ <li>External web applications can be linked in with data passed to them</li>\r
+</ul>\r
+<b>Survey Module</b> \r
+<ul><li>Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes</li><li>Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.</li><li>Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.</li><li>Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages</ul>\r
\r
-<P> </P>\r
+<p> </p>\r
\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="." TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">Version: $Id: features.html,v 1.2 2001/12/09 \r
- 10:34:19 martin Exp $</FONT></P>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1"><a href="." target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1">Version: $Id: features.html,v 1.2 2001/12/09 \r
+ 10:34:19 martin Exp $</font></p>\r
\r
-</BODY>\r
-</HTML>\r
+</body>\r
+</html>\r
-<HEAD>\r
- <TITLE>Moodle Docs: Future</TITLE>\r
- <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../theme/standard/styles.php" TYPE="TEXT/CSS">\r
- <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
+<head>\r
+ <title>Moodle Docs: Future</title>\r
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/standard/styles.php" type="TEXT/CSS">\r
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
<style type="text/css">\r
DT {font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;}\r
DD {margin-bottom:1em;} \r
</style>\r
-</HEAD>\r
+</head>\r
\r
-<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">\r
+<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">\r
\r
-<H2>Future</H2>\r
+<h2>Future</h2>\r
\r
-<P>Some notes from the main author: Martin Dougiamas.</p>\r
+<p>As Moodle gains in maturity, its directions are increasingly influenced by \r
+ the community of developers and users. A dynamic database of proposed features \r
+ and their status can be found at <a target=_top href="http://moodle.org/bugs/">moodle.org/bugs</a>. \r
+ Your <a href="?file=credits.html">contributions</a> in the form of ideas, code, \r
+ feedback and promotion are all very welcome - see the <a href="?file=developer.html">Developers \r
+ manual</a> for more details.</p>\r
+<p>Overall development has currently slowed down a bit while Martin finishes his \r
+ PhD thesis.</p>\r
\r
-<P>I'm committed to continuing my work on Moodle and on keeping it Open and Free. \r
- I have a deeply-held belief in the importance of unrestricted education and \r
- empowered teaching, and Moodle is the main way I can contribute to the realisation \r
- of these ideals. \r
+<p>Here is a rough map of the future (subject to change): \r
+<dl>\r
+ <dt>Version 1.0.9 - May 29th, 2003</dt>\r
\r
-<P>As Moodle gains in maturity, its directions are increasingly influenced by the community \r
- of developers and users. A dynamic database of proposed features and their status \r
- can be found at <A TARGET=_top HREF="http://moodle.org/bugs/">moodle.org/bugs</A>. \r
- Your <A href="?file=developer.html">contributions</a> in the form of ideas, code, \r
- feedback and promotion are all very welcome. \r
+ <dd>This release will contain all the many new features and bug fixes accumulated \r
+ since 1.0.8.1.</dd>\r
\r
-<P>Currently my own involvement has slowed while I finish writing my PhD thesis.\r
+ <dt>Version 1.1 - August 2003 ?</dt>\r
+ <dd>This release will tie up some other loose ends and new modules such as 'chat' \r
+ and the 'issue tracker'. It will probably include new features for backing \r
+ up and restoring individual courses. It may have support for groups and group \r
+ work. </dd>\r
\r
-<P>Here is a rough map of the future as I currently see it (obviously this is \r
- subject to change):\r
-\r
-<DL>\r
-<DT>Version 1.0.9 - May 2003</DT>\r
-\r
-<DD>This release will contain all the many new features and bug fixes accumulated \r
- since 1.0.8.1, including new modules such peer-graded assignments.\r
-</DD>\r
-\r
-<DT>Version 1.1 - August 2003 ?</DT>\r
-<DD>This release will tie up some other loose ends and new modules such as 'chat' and 'issue tracker'.\r
-</DD>\r
-\r
-<DT>Version 2.0 - December 2003 ?</DT>\r
-<DD>This major release will include some major changes in internal structure\r
+<dt>Version 2.0 - December 2003 ?</dt>\r
+<dd>This major release will include some major changes in internal structure\r
designed to add flexibility and scalability in many areas. Among the major \r
targets are:\r
- <UL>\r
- <LI> Stronger pedagogical support for both teachers and students\r
- <LI> Rewritten display layer using XHTML-compatible code and complete implementation\r
- of templates for increased standards-compliance, flexibility and accessibility.\r
- <LI> Wider use of PHP classes in key areas of the Moodle code, to make things \r
- easier for programmers writing new modules or integrating with external systems.\r
- <LI> Support for groups and group work\r
- <LI> New access-control system allowing finely-defined roles and rights.\r
- <LI> Basic support for IMS and SCORM\r
- <LI> Whatever else comes along :-)\r
- </UL>\r
-</DD>\r
-</DL>\r
-\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"> </P>\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="." TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">Version: $Id$</FONT></P>\r
-</BODY>\r
+ <ul>\r
+ <li> Stronger pedagogical support for both teachers and students \r
+ <li> Rewritten display layer using XHTML-compatible code and complete implementation \r
+ of templates for increased standards-compliance, flexibility and accessibility. \r
+ <li> Wider use of PHP classes in key areas of the Moodle code, to make some \r
+ things easier for programmers writing new modules or integrating with \r
+ external systems. \r
+ <li> New access-control system allowing finely-defined roles and rights. \r
+ <li> Basic support for IMS and SCORM \r
+ <li> Whatever else comes along :-) \r
+ </ul>\r
+</dd>\r
+</dl>\r
+\r
+<p align="CENTER"> </p>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1"><a href="." target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1">Version: $Id$</font></p>\r
+</body>\r
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">\r
-<HTML>\r
-<HEAD>\r
- <TITLE>Moodle Docs: Introduction</TITLE>\r
- <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../theme/standard/styles.php" TYPE="TEXT/CSS">\r
- <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
-</HEAD>\r
-<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">\r
+<html>\r
+<head>\r
+ <title>Moodle Docs: Introduction</title>\r
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/standard/styles.php" type="TEXT/CSS">\r
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">\r
+</head>\r
+<body bgcolor="#ffffff">\r
\r
-<H2>Introduction</H2>\r
+<h2>Introduction</h2>\r
\r
-<P>Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. \r
- It's an ongoing development project designed to support a <A HREF="http://dougiamas.com/writing/herdsa2002/">social constructionist</A> framework of education. </P>\r
+<p>Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. \r
+ It's an ongoing development project designed to support a <a href="http://dougiamas.com/writing/herdsa2002/">social constructionist</a> framework of education. </p>\r
\r
-<P>Moodle is provided freely as <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html"> \r
- Open Source</A> software (under the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"> \r
- GNU Public License</A>). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional \r
- freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle <B>provided</B> that you agree: to provide \r
- the source to others; to not modify or remove the original license, and apply this same \r
- license to any derivative work.\r
+<p>Moodle is provided freely as <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html"> \r
+ Open Source</a> software (under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"> \r
+ GNU Public License</a>). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that \r
+ you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle \r
+ <b>provided</b> that you agree: to provide the source to others; to not modify \r
+ or remove the original license, and apply this same license to any derivative \r
+ work. Read the license for full details and please contact the <a href="http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=1&course=1">copyright \r
+ holder</a> directly if you have any questions.\r
+<p>Moodle will run on any computer that can run <a href="http://www.php.net/"> \r
+ PHP</a>, and can support many types of database (particularly <a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a>).</p>\r
\r
-<P>Moodle will run on any computer that can run <A HREF="http://www.php.net/"> \r
- PHP</A>, and can support many types of database (particularly <a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a>).</P>\r
+<p>The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic \r
+ Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. \r
+ It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, \r
+ doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often \r
+ leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was \r
+ developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching \r
+ an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.</p>\r
+<p>Come and <a href="http://moodle.org/community/" target="_top">moodle with us</a>!</p>\r
+<p><br>\r
+</p>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1"><a href="." target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>\r
+<p align="CENTER"><font size="1">Version: $Id$</font></p>\r
\r
-<P>The word Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning \r
- Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. \r
- It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through \r
- something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering \r
- that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way \r
- Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying \r
- or teaching an online course.</P>\r
-<P><BR>\r
-</P>\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="." TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>\r
-<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">Version: $Id$</FONT></P>\r
-\r
-</BODY>\r
-</HTML>\r
+</body>\r
+</html>\r
projects / moodle.git / commitdiff