You can find the official release notes for Moodle 2 here, but I figured I would write up some features that look interesting.
Moodle 2 has overhauled it's message system. Before it was not robust enough to really be useful.
The system now communicates using three different methods: email, IM, and an in-site system. The nice thing is these all work together. If a student sends you a message you can receive it using any combination of the methods above. You can also set different methods for contact for different activities and features, ie get emails when students submit quizzes, but use the in-site system for personal messages.
The different options are:
- Assignment notifications
- Confirmation of your own quiz submissions
- Personal messages between users
- Subscribed forum posts
- Feedback notifications
- Notification of quiz submissions
Moodle2 also keeps a log of your conversations so you can go back and see what was said.
How I picture this being used is setting up the IM client (very easy) on your various computers. Then when a student sends you a message you do not need to worry about having Moodle open to receive it.
If using the in-site system they will then see a little pop-up in the lower right of your message reply.
For office hour type situations or quiz or assignments with set start/end time it would allow you to be available without having to watch the webpage.
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