(openPR) - The Moodle community today announced the release of its latest version, Moodle 1.7, to the education community.
The highlight of Moodle 1.7 is a new feature called Roles which allows users to create and manage the capabilities of users within a Moodle site. Gone are the days where predefined roles such as “teacher” or “student” dictate how Moodle is used. Roles allow greater flexibility and control, so that users can be permitted more (or less) rights to create and manage virtually every aspect of the system.
Another feature added to Moodle 1.7 is a standard XML database schema which simplifies support of Moodle on a wide variety of databases. MS SQL and Oracle support have been added to the existing MySQL and PostgreSQL support, and many more databases will be tested in coming versions.
The administrative interface in Moodle 1.7 has been completely updated to make access to settings fast and easy.
Finally a new unit testing framework has been added to make it easier for developers to write test code, which will ultimately lead to a more reliable Moodle.
A list of new features in Moodle 1.7 are detailed in the Moodle release notes.
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The Moodle community is a global group of thousands of educators and developers working together on moodle.org to promote pedagogically sound education tools through the creation of open source software for online learning. The course management system Moodle is one of the most popular in the world, used by over 20,000 known institutions in 75 languages and 164 countries.
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