I highly recommend ver. 1.9 for production servers in schools from now. My school has been using 1.9 beta4 for a month and very impressed with its speed and stability. I see no reason to hang onto 1.8 for another semester. This is the first Moodle release to go through 5 months of beta testing with features frozen to work out bugs. In the past, one month was the norm. So many of you with those memories may worry and think about continuing with old versions for a while. That is incorrect this time.
What am I most excited about? Consider the new question engine which improves...
- categories shared across the site
- linking to media files
- use of questions in many kinds of modules
- Self-study/Question-making Module by Hakodate Future University
- Project Course Format by Sapporo Gakuin University
- Project Module by Sapporo Gakuin University
What are your plans for 1.9 deployment? What do you like best about this version?
- Yes Don-san, I was speaking from an American perspective. I'm glad that the timing of the 1.9 release works well. Actually, for those who want some time to evaluate 1.9 before implementation, especially larger institutions that will implement over the summer (June or July), it is a convenient time here in the U.S. too. So my conclusion is that the release of 1.9 is great for everyone!