1 <H3> Release notes for Moodle 1.0.6</H3>
3 <P> Major changes in this release (since 1.0.5): </P>
6 <DT> New feature - WYSIWYG Text editing!
7 <DD> A WYSIWYG text editor has been added to many of the forms in Moodle. These are currently
8 only visible when using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later - other browsers see the
9 normal forms exactly as before.<BR><BR>
11 <DT> New feature - Quiz module!
12 <DD> Finally, the most requested new module is here! Multiple choice, short answer, and true-false
13 questions with automatic marking, multiple attempts, teacher regrading and many other features.
14 Questions are stored in a categorised database, and may be "published" to other courses.<BR><BR>
16 <DT> New feature - Grade manager!
17 <DD> A new tool has been added for teachers to see all grades for a course on one page.
18 You can also download/export grades as a tab-separated text file or an Excel
19 Spreadsheet. In future more features will be added to this page like sorting, manual
20 columns and calculations, but it's still pretty useful right now.<BR><BR>
22 <DT> New feature - LDAP authentication!
23 <DD> Moodle can now authenticate against external directories that use the
24 LDAP protocol (including Novell etc). Many thanks to Petri Asikainen for
25 developing this authentication plug-in!<BR><BR>
27 <DT> New feature - New smilies
28 <DD> Many new smilies have been added, and are now also accessible using a GUI in the text editor.<BR><BR>
30 <DT> Improved text editing
31 <DD> You can now include all major HTML tags in all texts. This is now safe because
32 of newly added functionality that strips all Javascript and faulty tags from texts
33 before they can cause security or display problems.<BR><BR>
36 <DD> German and Italian have been added! Many thanks to the translators (see the credits).<BR><BR>
38 <DT> Reading module => Resource module
39 <DD> After much thought and a vote of support (21 "yes" to 6 "no") on the "Using Moodle"
40 web site I changed the name of the "reading" module to "resource" (at the code level
41 and also the language packs). It was better to do this earlier than later.
42 This more generic name will be more meaningful to more people and opens the way to
43 some real development on a resource library.
44 But I don't want to ever change a module name again! :-)
45 If you have any hard-coded URLs pointing to readings that you don't want to break,
46 you can add a line like this to your Apache httpd.conf to redirect them:
47 <B><CODE>Redirect /mod/reading http://yourserver.com/mod/resource</CODE></B><BR><BR>
48 <FONT COLOR=RED>Note: if upgrading to 1.0.6 you may have some "reading" errors in "Recent activity" ... logging
49 out and then logging in again will fix this</FONT><BR><BR>
52 <DD> An admin script to totally delete the Moodle data directory has been included (admin/delete.php)
53 for people who need to tear down a Moodle installation but don't have root access on their
57 <DD> Many small improvements have been made to the interface, and many small bugs have been fixed.
60 <LI> Big "Edit this page" buttons at the top of pages (replacing the tiny icon)
61 <LI> LDAP authentication module (thanks to Petri)
62 <LI> Authentication from external sources can now import any fields
63 <LI> Student assignment list now shows submission status properly
64 <LI> Default language for users is now the site language
65 <LI> Users have a 'Change Password' button on their profile page
66 <LI> Journals that need teacher feedback are highlighted
67 <LI> More documentation and more context help buttons
68 <LI> Database-specific upgrade code
69 <LI> Uses character-set codes to make the browser do the right thing
70 <LI> User's name in footer is now a link
71 <LI> News and social forums are now editable
72 <LI> Forums that don't allow posting don't have uneccessary "discuss" links
73 <LI> Improved algorithm for shortening posts in forum listings
74 <LI> Choice module now allows up to six choices
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