Moodle 2.1 Released

Martin Dougiamas from Moodle.org announced today the release of Moodle 2.1. Moodle is a learning management system which in simple terms can be described as a niche CMS geared toward the education field.

Major new features in Moodle 2.1 include the following:

• A new question engine (used by quizzes, for example), which makes questions more robust and will enable developers to create all kinds of interesting question types in the future.
• Restoring of Moodle 1.9 backups is now possible.
• Moodle 2.1 now directly supports mobile apps for some functions. In addition, there is direct support for mobile-specific Moodle Themes and automatic detection of mobile browsers.

Digging into the release notes, you'll also find additional changes in this version of Moodle include:

• Ability to copy (or clone) an activity
• Ability to navigate navigation/settings menu and dock with keyboard
• Improved plugins check/overview page
• Upgraded TinyMCE (a rich text editor) to the latest version 3.4.2
• New performance setting for calculating an appropriate timeout during large cURL requests
• Daylight saving should be calculated for users having string timezone
• Messaging Improvements: Site administrators can now control which message delivery methods can be used for each message type

Moodle 2.1 is available from a number of sources including packaged form from the Moodle download page, direct access via a git repository or one of Moodle's CVS mirrors.