Thanks to today's technology, courses that don't require meeting in a classroom are not only possible; they're increasingly common. In fact, these days, even classes that do meet in person very often have an online component (even if that just means that the syllabus is posted on a website and assignments are turned in online). Students in traditional, in-person courses are increasingly... Read More →
Moodle 2.0 is now available after 2.5 years of testing. From the announcement: Well, after about two and a half years of work by hundreds of people, I'm proud to say that we have a Moodle 2.0 ready for you to download. All the functional QA tests have passed, all the 3873 unit tests are passing, and enough people think it's finished, so it must be finished. The last step was to take the... Read More →
Moodle 2.0 RC1 was released recently, and you can get daily builds from the Moodle download page. NOTE: this is not the final release yet! This milestone reflects the fact that the 2.0 feature set is now completely implemented and available in the core code. You can read more about 2.0 in the Moodle 2.0 RC1 release notes. The final release should be in a month or so. Until... Read More →
