ClappingTree’s Web 2.0

Moodle 1.7 is fresh off the oven , announced founder Martin Dougiamas on Nov 8. Of special interest to me are the big names behind the headline features:

Roles - Moodle has a complete new architecture for assigning people permissions. It’s very flexible, allowing you to give just a single person the right to delete posts in one particular forum… Thanks to Open University…

XML database schema – Moodle now supports a single way of specifying database structures using XML [for easier development and wider database support]… Moodle can now run out of the box on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle… Thanks to Microsoft…

New admin interface – admins get… a new interface designed to make it much easier to find settings and configure Moodle properly… Thanks to Google…

Unit testing framework – developers can now easily write unit tests that can be run as part of a system check to make sure Moodle code is performing as expected… Thanks to Open University…