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November 2013

STEWART HUTTONSALES MANAGER

LEWIS CARRSOLUTIONS ENGINEER

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11.30 - 12.15   Moodle RoadmapCommon Moodle Problems

12.15 - 12.45 Moodle Wish ListOpen Forum

Lunch

13.30 – 14.00 Introduction to Joule

Agenda

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World’s largest global Moodle partner

> 2200 hosted customer sites

> 2M hosted users

> World’s largest Moodle cloud

> Unrivalled expertise and experience

Who are We?

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Moodle Partner status:

10% revenue back to Moodle

Keeps Moodle free for everyone

Substantial code contributions - eg

Common Cartridge and LTI 1.1

Rubrics, collapsible course formatOutcomesAccessibility

Direct access to Moodle core team

Moodle Partnership

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Joule = Moodle

+ Enhanced feature set

+ Enterprise-Level cloud hosting

+ Professional support services(based on many years’ practical

experience)

Moodlerooms / Joule

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European Cloud Hosting

London Office

UK team

Client Base

eg Middlesex University

40,000 users

1077 courses revalidated and live

455 staff trained

In the UK …

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11.30 - 12.15   Moodle RoadmapCommon Moodle Problems

12.15 - 12.45 Moodle Wish ListOpen Forum

Lunch

13.30 – 14.00 Introduction to Joule

Agenda

Moodle Roadmap

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Releases are known as versions

>Updates are released every 6 months

>Each official update gets a version number

>Each release brings new features and bug fixes.

Release information:

Docs.moodle.org/releases

What are Moodle Releases?

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The Moodle Roadmap

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New file picker

New icons

Drag and drop files

Drag and drop blocks

New activity chooser

New assignment module

Book module now core

SCORM graphs/reports

Bug fixes

Moodle 2.3, 2.4, 2.5

Plugin updating

Course format plugins

New icons (SVG format)

HTML5 themes

Improve TinyMCE

Cohort sync to groups

Enrolment improvements

Better iCal support

Group Assignments

Blind Marking

Bug Fixes

Open badges

Add-ons installer

Bootstrap theme

Form usability

Auto save quizzes

Label drag ‘n’ drop

Performance reports

Caching tweaks

Improved security

Bug fixes

2.3 2.4 2.5

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> New logging and reporting

>Improved course management pages

> Quiz answers auto save!

> Bulk Course Creation Tool

> Single Activity Course Format

> Microsoft Skydrive Repository

> Roles import and Export

> Simplified password reset procedure

What’s expected in 2.6?

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> Edit and annotate PDFs within Moodle

> New grading workflows

> Email notifications for manually added users

> Restore of large courses fixed!

> Improved SCORM with responsive elements

> Improved SCORM reporting and export of data

My Personal Favourites (2.6)

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> IE8 and Safari 5 are not fully supported any more, they should still work but they are not tested regularly and there might be some known problems.

>IE6 and IE7 are not recommended for Moodle 2.6 at all.

> IE 10 supports Moodle drag and drop

> MyMobile theme dropped

> Tiny MCE changes, new icons plus hidden lines (training issue?)

Warnings!

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Expected January 14th 2014

Moodle 2.7….

CommonMoodle Problems

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Questions first?

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11.30 - 12.15   Moodle RoadmapCommon Moodle Problems

12.15 - 12.45 Moodle Wish ListOpen Forum

Lunch

13.30 – 14.00 Introduction to Joule

Agenda

Moodle WishListMoodle Tracker Influence the Future

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The Moodle tracker is a website that allows you to:• Submit bugs and fixes• Suggest Features• Vote on features you want in core releases• Actively change the future of Moodle• Track developments, keep updated

The Moodle Tracker

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https://tracker.moodle.org

The Moodle Tracker

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Anything we haven’t covered?

Ask the expert?

Open Forum

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Lunch!!