Moodle 2.0 Usability Appearance

What’s new in
Moodle 2.0

1. COURSE ORGANISATION

CONDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Basically “you can’t do this activity until that activity is completed”

COURSE COMPLETION
Allows teachers to specify conditions that define when a student has completed a course and keeps a record of which users have completed each course.

PROGRESS TRACKING
Users can have learning plans, listing which courses should be attempted next based on which courses have been completed.

2. NEW COMMUNITY FEATURES

Some of the highlights of the new
Community Features include:
It will be easier for teachers to find other
courses to download as templates for
their own courses

It is also easier to find enrollable courses
on other sites (for students or community
participation)

3. APPEARANCE

THEMESMoodle 2.0 will come with 20
brand new standard themes, making your
Moodle look much nicer than ever before

NAVIGATIONNavigation will be
consistent throughout with a navigation
block on every page.

LAYOUTSBlocks and page layouts
are consistent on every Moodle page
and can now be docked like menus

USABILITYMoodle has addressed
issues that users have highlighted to
make Moodle 2.0 more user friendly
HTML EDITOR 2.0 Replaces the
existing HTML area and works on
more browsers, enforces XHTML
strict and integrates better with
the new File API

4. CHANGES TO ACTIVITY MODULES

WIKI 2.0Wiki 2.0 will be cleaned up
and included as a core module

QUIZ MODULE & QUESTION BANK
- Improvements to the quiz reports
- Improved quiz navigation for students
- Additional option to ‘flag’ questions during quizzes

QUIZ MODULE & QUESTION BANK
- Improvements to quiz editinginterface
Essay questions can now berandomized
Improved ‘Question Bank’ search
Question tagging

LESSON MODULE
Converted to use Moodle forms to maintain consistency
Refactored code to make itmaintainable

5. FILE HANDLING REQUIREMENTS

The following file handling requirements
are separate but complementary:
1) Repository API – allows users to
browse external repositories using a
filepicker & select files to bring into
Moodle
2) File API – maintains an internal
repository of files & governs access
to them

3) Portfolio API – allows Moodle
content to be captures and pushed out
to external repositories

6. OTHER MAJOR COMPONENTS

BACK-UP 2.0. – Backing up will be
faster and work on large scale
courses (old back-ups can be imported)
BLOG 2.0 - You can now add
commenting to blogs
COMMENTING - Commenting on
Moodle has been refactored into
one central system

RSS FEEDS - Secure RSS feeds
TAGGING - More tagging for courses
activities etc.

MESSAGING 2.0 - Refactored
messaging to use plugins for input
and output, controlled by users

For more information email
info@synergy-learning.com

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Moodle 2.0 Usability Appearance

by Joel Kerr on Jan 25, 2010

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