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THIS IS A BIG CHANGE! I've renamed the "reading" module to "resource". This meant changing quite a few references throughout Moodle. The automatic upgrade process should work OK (it worked OK on my development server) and there shouldn't be any problems. BUT PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND KEEP BACKUPS OF EVERYTHING UNTIL I HAVE A FEW MORE TESTS! If you upgrade please let me know. One thing that will break are any hard-coded links within forum messages. What I will be doing to fix this on my apache server is to add this to httpd.conf: Redirect /mod/reading/ http://moodle.com/mod/resource/ Sorry about any inconvenience, but it's better this is done sooner than later.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<TITLE>Moodle Docs: Background</TITLE>
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<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../theme/standard/styles.css" TYPE="TEXT/CSS">
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<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
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<H2>Features</H2>
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Here is a big list of some of the features in Moodle 1.0:
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<UL><LI>Supports a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical reflection, etc)</LI><LI>Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning<LI>Simple, lightweight, browser-compatible interface</LI><LI>Plug-in "themes" allow you to customise the colours, fonts, layout etc</LI><LI>Easy to install on most platforms</LI><LI>Easy administration - students can create their own accounts. Email addresses are verified.</LI><LI>One account works for the whole server</LI><LI>Security - teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email etc</LI><LI>Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description etc</LI><LI>Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Moodle is translated to that timezone (eg posting dates, assignment due dates etc)</LI><LI>Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed social format</LI><LI>Flexible array of course modules - Forums, Journals, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments.</LI><LI>New modules can be written and plugged in to existing Moodle installations</LI><LI>The code is clearly-written PHP under a GPL license - easy to modify and localise</LI><LI>Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except for initial table definition)</LI><LI>Ready for internationalisation - supports plug-in languages and locale-based date formats etc</LI><LI>Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.</LI><LI>Recent changes to the course since the last login are displayed on the course home page</LI><LI>Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings, journal entries etc on one page.</LI>
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</UL>
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<B>Forum Module</B>
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<UL><LI>Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.</LI><LI>All postings have the authors photo attached.</LI><LI>Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.</LI><LI>Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all</LI>
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</UL>
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<B>Survey Module</B>
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<UL><LI>Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes</LI><LI>Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.</LI><LI>Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.</LI><LI>Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages</UL>
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<B>Resource Module</B>
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<UL><LI>Supports display of any electronic content</LI><LI>Files can be uploaded and managed on the server, or created on the fly using web forms (text or HTML)</LI><LI>External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the course interface.</LI></UL>
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<B>Choice Module</B>
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<UL><LI>Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback from every student (eg research consent)</LI></UL>
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<B>Journal Module</B>
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<UL><LI>Journals are private between student and teacher.</LI><LI>Each journal entry can be directed by an open question.</LI><LI>For each particular journal entry, the whole class can be assessed on one page in one form.</LI><LI>Teacher feedback is appended to the journal entry page, and notification is mailed out.</LI></UL>
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<B>Assignment Module</B>
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<UL><LI>Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.</LI><LI>Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.</LI><LI>Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher</LI><LI>For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form.</LI><LI>Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out.</LI></UL>
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<P> </P>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">Version: $Id: features.html,v 1.2 2001/12/09
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10:34:19 martin Exp $</FONT></P>
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