I’ve been experimenting with some of the new developmental stuff in Moodle 2.0. The first thing that struck me was that the navigation is much better. It’s uniform throughout the pages and it seems like a lot of attention was made to make the menus and how blocks appear and are laid out look and feel much better. There are also a number of new features for managing courses and blocks, including:
- Tagging
- Built-in Progress tracking
- Forced paths through a course
- Conditional course completion
- Enhanced testing and grading systems
- Built-in RSS aggregation
- Built-in blogging tool
- A backup program that was actually able to backup my whole Moodle environment
- Updated wiki engine that looks and feels much better
Oh, and you can flag questions… Not sure what I think of that one though. Anyway, just some initial thoughts. Moodle 2.0 won’t be out until the end of the year, but if you go ahead and start regression testing it, you might be able to do an upgrade over the summer!
