Five practical reasons for moving to Moodle 2. Changes requested and executed by the Moodle support team at Royal Holloway, University of London.

1. Moodle 2: Learning platform refresh
Five practical reasons for change*
change
(*based on feedback from academic staff at RHUL)

2. Moving topics/weeks
• In our previous version of Moodle (1.9) moving topics/weeks around was a
cumbersome and repetitive process
• In Moodle 2 this is a simple ‘drag‐and‐drop’ action
• Courses can now be reorganised in a matter of seconds
• This reduces the time spent editing and delivering a course

3. Duplicating activities
• There was previously no easy way of copying activities or labels in Moodle
• Now all Moodle activities have a ‘duplicate’ button and can be copied
quickly
• This supports one‐click duplication of quiz containers in support of students
with declared SENs
• Painstakingly formatted resources/activities such as labels or wikis can be
easily copied and redeployed

4. Conditional release
• Previously, Moodle resources & activities were either viewable or hidden
• Access to activities can now be restricted or released according to:
• date/time
• completion of and/or grades achieved in previous activities
• This can increase engagement, support personalised learning paths, and
improve the presentation of courses

5. File management
• Previously, presenting a file was a three‐step process
• Uploading a file to a Moodle course has been much simplified:
• far fewer mouse clicks are required
• files are uploaded direct to the week/topic
• no file manager interface to negotiate
• no risk of broken links

6. Image handling
• The image upload process is much improved in
Moodle 2
• The image handling interface:
• is now consistent with other Moodle tools
• supports quick and proportionate resizing of
images
• simplifies other formatting, e.g., borders,
white space, alignment
• This streamlines the presentation, editing and
management of course‐enhancing images
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