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  17 <h1>Latest Release notes</h1>
  18 <h3> New in Moodle 1.2 (20th March, 2004)</h3>
  19 <ul>
  20   <dl>
  21     <dt>Major new features</dt>
  22     <dd>
  23       <ul>
  24         <li>New support for <strong>groups</strong> and cohorts within courses (with many options)</li>
  25         <li><strong>Text filters</strong> allow arbitrary processing on all text in Moodle, including <strong>automatic linking</strong>, <strong>mathematics support</strong>, <strong>multi-language content</strong> and infinitely more possibilities</li>
  26         <li>A fantastic new <strong>Glossary module</strong> (thanks to Williams Castillo!) with many different ways to contruct learning activities based around collecting definitions</li>
  27         <li>A great new  <strong>Lesson module</strong> (thanks to Ray Kingdon!) easily creates active content with pathways and multiple-choice questions</li>
  28         <li>A new <strong>Label module</strong> allows arbitrary HTML in the course page</li>
  29         <li>An improved <strong>WYSIWYG editor</strong>,  faster and more cross-platform than the old one</li>
  30         <li><strong>Automatic backups</strong> can be scheduled by the administrator for all courses at once</li>
  31       </ul>
  32     </dd>
  33     <dt>Courses</dt>
  34     <dd>
  35       <ul>
  36         <li>Activities can now be indented on the course outline, allowing more structure</li>
  37         <li>A new report for Recent Activity makes it easier to see what's happened recently</li>
  38         <li>A new logs button on every activity links to the logs page to show logs per-activity</li>
  39         <li>Restore button now always functional</li>
  40         <li>Improved &quot;index&quot; view for all modules</li>
  41         <li>Improvements to participants display, including paging and initial searching</li>
  42         <li>Excel downloads are more compatible with different operating systems</li>
  43         <li>Better error reporting when adding/updating activities</li>
  44         <li>Search box no longer auto-focuses (it was causing annoying auto-scrolling on long courses)</li>
  45         <li>Self-unenrollment link on the course page for students</li>
  46         <li>Change password link on the course page for students</li>
  47         <li>Students can now be allowed to see their own activity reports (course setting)</li>
  48         <li>Teachers can browse the course files for images when using the new editor</li>
  49         <li>New image of empty box as destination when moving activities</li>
  50         <li>Accesses are now recorded by course, so the participant listings make more sense</li>
  51         <li>The activity navbar now has buttons for previous and next activities</li>
  52         <li>File dates were incorrect on some systems - this is now fixed.</li>
  53         <li>Old chat users are no longer shown in the recent activity</li>
  54       </ul>
  55     </dd>
  56     <dt>Site administration</dt>
  57     <dd>
  58       <ul>
  59         <li>An important security fix preventing teachers from logging in as admins who are students in their course</li>
  60         <li>New setting &quot;forcelogin&quot;  can force people to log in before they can see any of the site</li>
  61         <li>New setting &quot;opentogoogle&quot;  allows Google and people referred by Google to get in as guest</li>
  62         <li>New setting &quot;timezone&quot; allows a default timezone to be set for the whole site</li>
  63         <li>New setting &quot;deleteunconfirmed&quot; specifies the time we'll wait for email accounts to be confirmed</li>
  64         <li>New setting &quot;allowunenroll&quot; enables/disables students from unenrolling themselves from courses</li>
  65         <li>New setting &quot;fullnamedisplay&quot; allows override for the formatting of user full names so students can only see &quot;firstname lastname&quot;, &quot;lastname firstname&quot; or &quot;firstname&quot;</li>
  66         <li>Individual users can have their email disabled by the teacher or admin (useful for dealing with broken mail accounts that are bouncing)</li>
  67         <li>Upload sizes can now be controlled throughout Moodle using &quot;maxbytes&quot;. There is a site limit (bounded by the current PHP limits), which itself is the upper bound for course limits, which is the upper bound for activity limits.</li>
  68         <li>Moodle cookies can be customised (helps when running multiple Moodles on one site)</li>
  69         <li>Included script for analysing database performance (admin/dbperformance.php)</li>
  70         <li>Included standalone script to check a server for Moodle compatibility (lib/compatible.php)</li>
  71         <li> If a file called cronextra.php exists in the dataroot then cron will run that too.  This allows sites to have &quot;special&quot; maintenance features.</li>
  72         <li>Course formats are now more like plugins, in separate directories</li>
  73         <li>Users can now be uploaded from text files</li>
  74         <li>If $CFG-&gt;disableuserimages is defined (in config.php) then user images can not be changed</li>
  75         <li>If $CFG-&gt;admineditalways is defined then the administrator can edit ANY post at any time.</li>
  76         <li>If $CFG-&gt;filterall is defined then even little things liks forum subjects and activity names are filtered</li>
  77         <li>Support for restricted demo users (eg the teacher demo on Moodle.org) - usernames can be added to a list of  names in config.php. eg $CFG-&gt;restrictusers = 'teacher,fred';</li>
  78       </ul>
  79     </dd>
  80     <dt>Themes</dt>
  81     <dd>
  82       <ul>
  83         <li>Fixes for Internet Explorer can be more robust at using the style sheet</li>
  84         <li>Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to themes - <strong>custom themes need upgrading!</strong></li>
  85       </ul>
  86     </dd>
  87     <dt>Translations</dt>
  88     <dd>
  89       <ul>
  90         <li>New languages: Galego and Lithuanian</li>
  91         <li>Improved language editing interface - it allows the current language to be chosen and allows each file to be edited separately.</li>
  92         <li>The list of country names can now be translated, as can the editor buttons, smiley names and file sizes (Mb, Gb etc)</li>
  93         <li>Language packs can now define the default language direction (RTL or LTR)</li>
  94         <li>Language packs can now define the order that people's names should be shown in</li>
  95         <li>Language files are now written using slightly more efficient PHP code</li>
  96         <li>Finally got rid of the final bogus linefeeds in the multi-line strings</li>
  97         <li>Courses can now &quot;force&quot; a language on all users</li>
  98       </ul>
  99     </dd>
 100     <dt>Backup / Restore</dt>
 101     <dd>
 102       <ul>
 103         <li>Automatic backups can be scheduled by the administrator for all courses at once</li>
 104         <li>All needed users are now included in course backups (even if no longer enrolled)</li>
 105         <li>Miscellaneous bugfixes</li>
 106       </ul>
 107     </dd>
 108     <dt>Text Filters and Formatting</dt>
 109     <dd>
 110       <ul>
 111         <li>Warning: the new text filters can increase the load on your server, particularly when used with complex filters. Use them with caution. </li>
 112         <li>The new <strong>glossary filter</strong> can create links to glossary entries from matching words throughout Moodle.</li>
 113         <li>The new <strong>TeX filter</strong> can convert TeX code found anywhere in Moodle into true Mathematics notation (GIF format image). There is also an <strong>algebra</strong> filter with a simpler input format (more like calculators).</li>
 114         <li>The new <strong>censor filter</strong> can be enabled to filter out bad words.</li>
 115         <li>The new <strong>multilang filter</strong> allows texts to be entered in multiple languages, and only the best one will be shown to each user (depending on their language setting)</li>
 116         <li>The &lt;nolink&gt; tag can be used to prevent autolinking within a passage of text.</li>
 117         <li>More tags are now allowed, including &lt;acronym&gt; and all &lt;math&gt; tags.</li>
 118         <li>Some areas where text wasn't properly filtered before (security risk) have now been fixed.</li>
 119       </ul>
 120     </dd>
 121     <dt>Developer API</dt>
 122     <dd>
 123       <ul>
 124         <li>A new coding guide is available</li>
 125         <li>A new Philosophy guide is available ;-)</li>
 126         <li>Improvements to the template for new modules</li>
 127         <li>Modules should now specify the minimum version of Moodle they are compatible with</li>
 128         <li>Scripts can specify to print_header() whether the page is pure XML</li>
 129         <li>Any module can save and retrieve user preferences that stay around between logins</li>
 130       </ul>
 131     </dd>
 132     <dt>Chats</dt>
 133     <dd>
 134       <ul>
 135         <li>Chat sessions can now be deleted</li>
 136         <li>Scheduled chat times now show the timezone to make it clearer</li>
 137       </ul>
 138     </dd>
 139     <dt>Forums</dt>
 140     <dd>
 141       <ul>
 142         <li>Forum viewing preferences are remembered between logins</li>
 143         <li>&quot;Show parent&quot; link on all posts for faster navigation around forums</li>
 144         <li>Anchor tags allow individual posts to be referenced in all views</li>
 145         <li>Improvements to cron job when manually run, as well as logging of mailer errors</li>
 146         <li>Only print the ratings button when there are ratings to be made</li>
 147         <li>Vastly improved email text versions of HTML forum posts</li>
 148         <li>When replying, an outline of other replies is shown.</li>
 149         <li>When using the HTML editor to post, other formatting options are no longer provided.</li>
 150       </ul>
 151     </dd>
 152     <dt>Journals</dt>
 153     <dd>
 154       <ul>
 155         <li>Journal questions can now use the HTML editor</li>
 156         <li>Some fixes to the report page when assessing journal entries</li>
 157       </ul>
 158     </dd>
 159     <dt>Quizzes</dt>
 160     <dd>
 161       <ul>
 162         <li>Questions and categories can now be edited without needing to open a quiz</li>
 163         <li>All questions can now use any of the Moodle editing formats</li>
 164         <li>New import format: <strong>GIFT</strong> format (this is the new default format)</li>
 165         <li>New import format: <strong>Course Test Manager</strong></li>
 166         <li>New import format: <strong>WebCT</strong> format</li>
 167         <li>New import format: <strong>Aiken</strong> format</li>
 168         <li>Short-Answer questions can now use wildcards for matching eg wild*rds</li>
 169         <li>Images now work in questions from external published categories</li>
 170         <li>Improved the overview reports to show more info and allow deletion of attempts</li>
 171         <li>Added a new detailed quiz report for statistical anaylsis</li>
 172         <li>All question types can now have up to 10 answers each</li>
 173         <li>Menus in quiz editing no longer need submit buttons (just select from menu)</li>
 174         <li>Fixed bug that occurred when re-grading SOME quizzes with random questions in them</li>
 175         <li>Fixed bug that occurred in backups of quizzes with random questions in them</li>
 176         <li>Many other small bugs fixed</li>
 177       </ul>
 178     </dd>
 179     <dt>Resources</dt>
 180     <dd>
 181       <ul>
 182         <li>Teachers can browse files more directly when creating uploaded file</li>
 183         <li>New settings to allow a default URL, a default search page and default popup settings</li>
 184         <li>Uploaded files can appear in popups too.</li>
 185         <li>Much better display of popups when using the navbar to go there</li>
 186         <li>MP3 files are now streamed using a built-in Flash MP3 player</li>
 187         <li>Video files (Media player, Quicktime) are embedded using local plugins</li>
 188       </ul>
 189     </dd>
 190     <dt>Workshops</dt>
 191     <dd>
 192       <ul>
 193         <li>Changes to handling of peer assessments</li>
 194         <li>New assessment phase</li>
 195         <li>New options for the league table</li>
 196       </ul>
 197     </dd>
 198     <dt>Miscellaneous</dt>
 199     <dd>
 200       <ul>
 201         <li>Moodle now ignores any folders that Frontpage may have added to it (_vti_cnf).</li>
 202         <li>Improved HTML -&gt; XHTML in many places</li>
 203         <li>Many fixes for non-MySQL databases</li>
 204         <li>A few hard-coded text strings around the place were made translatable</li>
 205         <li>User profile data is now properly cleaned</li>
 206         <li>FIxes for when Moodle is embedded within a frame (eg in Postnuke)</li>
 207         <li>Bug fixes to Wiki mode</li>
 208         <li>Admin can no longer edit external accounts</li>
 209         <li>Qmail users can use &quot;qmail&quot; in the smtphosts field for better results</li>
 210         <li>Multiple methods of redirecting, to work around some browser bugs</li>
 211         <li>Small improvements to the display of grades in the gradebook</li>
 212         <li>More student profile fields can be edited, such as department and institution, and these are also written to grade dumps in text or Excel.</li>
 213         <li>When a student is added as a teacher, they are now automatically unenrolled from being a student</li>
 214         <li>Upgraded ADOdb (database layer)</li>
 215       </ul>
 216     </dd>
 217   </dl>
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