June 21, 2006
Moodle 1.6 is now available for download!
On Tuesday, June 20 2006 Martin Dougiamas announced that Moodle 1.6 is now available for download!
ION will be upgrading its ION Moodle server (used to host non-MVCR moodle courses) this week. The MVCR Moodle server will be upgraded following the conclusion of summer courses.
Some of the major highlights include:
* 100% Unicode support - all 70 existing languages are now compatible and can be mixed wherever you like.
* New documentation wiki - a one-stop shop for all documentation, integrated from within each page of Moodle itself.
* Database module - a new activity module for collaborative collection and display of arbitrary data
* Blogs - finally Moodle has blogs for ongoing personal reflections, viewable by course, by group, by individual etc
* New reports - plug-in reports enable you to create and share new report types. New statistics reports are included in Moodle 1.6.
* Questions - quiz question types are now a centralised structure so any module will be able to use them in future.
* LAMS - a new activity module and course format allow LAMS to be easily integrated with Moodle if you need to
* My Moodle - a new customizable dashboard page with an overview of all your own courses and what is new
* Hive integration - Moodle can be closely integrated with Hive, a leading object repository, with single-sign-on etc.
* Multiple groups - users can be part of any number of groups in a course
* IMS content packages - can now be loaded as resources
* New Chameleon theme - can be customised in your browser on the fly!
* Granularised backup - allows you to backup only selected activities
* Multi Enrolments - use any number of Moodle's enrolment methods at once, including the new IMS Enterprise methods
For full information see the Moodle 1.6 release notes
Posted by mlindema at 08:56 AM