From 6b708b9844ecb039b07ff5641d331fa37c6e5635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moodler Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:43:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More info about new features in the upcoming release --- lang/en/docs/release.html | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) diff --git a/lang/en/docs/release.html b/lang/en/docs/release.html index 431372b920..05af1199f6 100644 --- a/lang/en/docs/release.html +++ b/lang/en/docs/release.html @@ -11,6 +11,96 @@

Release notes

New in Moodle 1.0.9 (in development) :

General: +
7 new language packs! Argentinian Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Slovakian, Romanian, Danish and Russian. +
Fixes and upgrades to almost all language packs +
Language can be specified for the current session (see menu on home page and login page) and can be changed on any page by adding something to the url: ?lang=en +
Truetype fonts are now part of the language packs +
More indexes added to many tables for very noticeable increase in speed +
Moodle is now well-behaved when enclosed within a frame +
New role: Course creator - just like teacher but can also create new courses +
Richtext editor can now be used in more text-editing fields +
ALL dates/times can be reformatted as part of the language pack +
Slightly updated style sheets +
Ability to specify permissions of new folders and files created on the server +
Some fixes for servers running in Safe Mode. +
Various small optimisations and speed-ups +
Various fixes for cleaning some external text of quotes, etc +
Various fixes for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility +
Developers: +
Debug variable for more feedback +
Various fixes to tidy up and further standardise some of the PHP code +
Various fixes for robustness (ensuring variables are always initialised) +
Admin: +
Better checking of PHP environment during installation, with warnings +
Admin directory can be moved from /admin to something else (see config-dist.php) +
User listing is now paged, and can now be searched for strings +
Improvements to the language editing page +
Courses: +
Activities on the course page can be hidden from students +
Some paging on the display of participants, to cope with very large classes +
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. +
Assignments: +
Assignment submissions can be sorted +
Assignment notification mail isn't sent to unenrolled students +
Forums: +
Force Subscribe now works on the "Site News" forum (mails all active students/teachers) +
Improved display of forums, when listing discussions +
Date/time of posts is now "last modified", not "created" +
More intelligent parsing and display of text in posts +
Peer-Graded Assignments: +
New module written by Ray Kingdon. +
Quizzes: +
New question type, Random Question (selects from all questions in the same category) +
New question type, Matching Question (student must match answers to questions) +
New quesiton type, Random Matching Short-Answers (randomly creates Matching Questions + from the available Short Answer questions in the same category) +
Quiz question import from text files (modular design allows expansion to new formats) +
'Create multiple questions' wizard to quickly create a random quiz +
Quiz questions may be randomly shuffled +
Quiz answers (multiple choice, etc) may be randomly shuffled +
Fixed off-by-one error when "Save Grades" button wasn't used. +
Regrading works properly if the quiz has been changed +
Editing a question after it's already been used in a quiz no longer affects quiz results +
Multiple choice answers are labelled a,b,c not 1,2,3 +
Resources: +
Better performance when editing large text or HTML resources +

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New in Moodle 1.0.8.1 (12th January, 2003) :

No new features, just bug fixes: