In the last hour Moodle 2.3 came out of beta and was released. Based on feedback from recent training and demo sessions – many will be shifting their focus to upgrade to 2.3 this summer instead of Moodle 2.2. Well done all contributors to it.
I have done some prior posts on some of the features:
- Some Features in the upcoming Moodle 2.3 – including course page and file and repository handling improvements
- Course – section per page
- New Assignment activity
There are some changes to requirements:
- Moodle 2.2 or later (if upgrading from earlier versions, you must upgrade to 2.2 as a first step)
- MySQL needs to be MySQL 5.1.33 now (Moodle 2.2 and 2.1 needed 5.0.25)
- Browser changes : IE8 required (was IE7 for 2.2), Chrome 11 (was Chrome 4 for 2.2), Safari 5 (was Safari 3 for 2.2), Firefox 4 (was FF 3 for 2.2)
Some other points to note
- Course export to IMS CC standard
- Workshop automatic phase switching
- New SCORM report
- Conditional access to Course Sections (not just resources/activities but now course sections too)
- In response to some changes from Google, Moodle now uses the more secure method to connect for Google Docs and Picasa which requires admins to register their site with Google. http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Google_OAuth_2.0_setup
For the release announcement from Martin Dougiamas http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=205466
To download Moodle 2.3 – http://download.moodle.org/
Thanks for the heads up Gavin! Our test server is now on the stable branch. Given the considerable improvements in user friendliness, I think we’ll definitely be upgrading from 2.2 a little later in the summer (once they’ve worked out some of the inevitable bugs!).
Good idea!
They plan to release 2.3.1 in mid-July so I would target end july/start August for an install of 2.3
G
Ah, good to know. Thanks very much!
Thanks for mentioning need of IE8 for moodle 2.3 (as our whole organization have IE7 as standard ), i was not aware of that…you saved my time