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Moodle 2.0 - New and redesigned features. El Blog » Blog Archive » Moodle 2.0 Upgrade: What could go wrong? Forum posts. Upgrading to Moodle 2.1. You can upgrade to Moodle 2.1 from Moodle 2.0 or 1.9. If you are upgrading from 1.9, please read the Upgrading to Moodle 2.0 page too. If you are using an earlier version of Moodle, you must upgrade to the latest Moodle 1.9.x first. We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect. System requirements Moodle 2.1 planning The biggest change in Moodle 2.1 that affects the upgrade is the new question engine. Planning the question engine upgrade The upgrade from Moodle 2.0 to 2.1 needs to do a major transformation of all the quiz attempt data. To gauge whether this will be a problem for you, count the number of rows in the question_sessions table: SELECT COUNT(1) FROM mdl_question_sessions; If this number is less than something like 10,000 then you have nothing to worry about.

A helpful plugin Once installed, you can access it using the Question engine upgrade helper link in the Site administration menu. Before upgrading please... Data Migration from moodle 1.9.9+ to moodle 2.1. I realise this is a very late reply to a forum post but it might be useful for the folk having the 'legacy file not migrated' problem.

We recently upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1 and the way files are stored is probably the biggest challenge if you are used to the old way of doing things. We noticed some courses had resource links that appeared to have lost track of their actual files - so you'd get the 'legacy file has not migrated' message - which isn't that helpful. In nearly all cases, we found the actual files were still in there and it was fixable by the course tutor. Here's the section from our in-house FAQ: If your course was upgraded, it may have lost the links to some of the resources. You'll see an icon like the one on the left, instead of the more usual icons representing different sorts of file. There are two possible reasons - The file wasn't in the original courseMoodle lost the link somehow to the resource during the upgrade You can use the file picker to fix it.

On the plus side. Moodle 1.9 to 2.0 Course Converter | Moodle in NZ Schools. Hello, It is not possible to make a backup of a Moodle 1.9 course and import that into Moodle 2.0 as Moodle has changed the structure of its backups entirely. You would have to migrate an entire site to re-use the courses. With Moodle 2.1 this backup functionality should be available some time later this year, but anybody using Moodle 2.0 will not be able to use that as it is a Moodle 2.1 functionality. In response to the Moodle course sharing with Christchurch schools, we looked for a course converter that would be available online and not restricted to one operating system as some schools already used Moodle 1.9, but the schools new to Moodle would get Moodle 2.0.

As there was no converter available that fulfilled the requirements, Catalyst IT developed the Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.0 Course Converter. This development work was made possible through funding from the Ministry of Education. The converter is in early stages and thus may still contain a few bugs. Cheers Kristina. Upgrading to Moodle 2.0. When upgrading to Moodle 2.0, you must have Moodle 1.9 or later. if you are using an earlier version of Moodle (eg 1.8.x) then you need to upgrade to Moodle 1.9.x first.

We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect. Moodle 2.0 is a substantial upgrade and may require more planning and testing than you have become accustomed to in prior upgrades. Please read this page carefully before proceeding. System requirements PHP must be 5.2.8 or later although the latest 5.3.x is better if you have a choice. Databases should be one of the following: MySQL 5.0.25 or later (InnoDB storage engine highly recommended) PostgreSQL 8.3 or later Oracle 10.2 or later MS SQL 2005 or later Any standards-supporting browser from the past few years, for example: Firefox 3 or later Safari 3 or later Google Chrome 4 or later Opera 9 or later MS Internet Explorer 7 or later (Even Google does not support IE6 any more) Moodle 2.0 Planning.

MDL-22414] META: Restore 1.9 backups into Moodle 2.0. Testing with the following file... \\SERVER\Documents\development\Course backups for testing\Courses\Features Demo.zip ...I observed these errors at the Settings stage (with Developer debugging)... Notice: Undefined index: matchoptions in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\question\type\match\backup\moodle1\lib.php on line 59 Notice: Undefined index: original_site_identifier_hash in D:\xampp\htdocs\moodle_testing\backup\util\helper\backup_general_helper.class.php on line 141 ...but the restore was successful and a brief testing of the activities/resource showed they worked. When I repeated the restore of the same backup, the same errors appeared. I ran Tomaz's Water backup (from the school demo) and it ran through without any errors.

There could be an issue with sub-plugins. I restored my own simple 1.9 backup that included a contributed assignment type module... \\SERVER\Documents\development\Course backups for testing\Courses\Michael's Simple Backup including an assignment type.zip. Conversionthingy2 update: Convert Moodle backups from 1.9 to 2.0  Welcome to Moodlenews.com A resource site for all Moodle-related news, tutorials, video, course content information and original resources. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! Peter Friesen, creator of ConversionThingy2 has just released an update which makes this tool much more useful to Moodle users than ever before. Previously CT2 was designed to specifically help Angel users managed their course conversions to Moodle a little more easily.

According to the site CT2 now, converts their course content into native objects in Moodle 1.98 and Moodle 2.0 backup files For more information or to download this great resource visit This newest release however can convert Moodle 1.9 backups files (zips) to Moodle 2.0 backup files (MBZ). Here’s a quick video that highlights the process [direct link: Development:Backup 2.0 - Provide upwards compatibility of Moodle 1.9.x backups. While the Backup 2.0 multiple formats document describes how different formats will be supported by the restore process in Moodle 2.0, it's going to be a highly complex task to perform the transformation of Moodle 1.9.x backups into the new, improved, Moodle 2.x backup format.

Too many things have changed between both versions to be able to achieve this easily. Surely it's computable (as long as upgrade is being able to apply the correct logic, so restore will) but it is going to be handled as a separate development that will allow us to 1) be centered in the 2.0 backup/restore and 2) be free (both in mind and implementation) from any 1.9.x XML format dependency. Goals and basis The main goal is to create one conversion tool, able to get any Moodle 1.9 backup file and convert it to one Moodle 2.0 backup file. The tool will not perform any modification in the Moodle instance where it is being executed (i.e.the tool won't import anything). Introduction Physical differences Logical differences.