Some exciting new titles have come to Packt Publishing.

• Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner’s Guide – Implement Moodle in your business to streamline your interview, training, and internal communication processes.
• Moodle Javascript Cookbook – Over 50 recipes for making your Moodle system more dynamic and responsive with JavaScript.

I’m very excited to get reading these books. Along with using Moodle in a k-12 school district I’m also an admin for a small business. I’m hoping to get some tips to make that site work even better with Moodle 2.0. Hopefully by the time I’m done reading I’ll be itching to upgrade. The Javascript book looks interesting to me to see what I can learn to make our Moodle site more customized and dynamic.

I’ll be writing a review on each of the books. Hopefully I can get started soon, while I’m getting back into testing 2.0! Stay tuned.

Great news, Moodle 2.1 Beta is now available on Moodle.org for download! I just installed and tried restoring a 1.9.9+ course – it worked!

Helen Foster recently posted on Moodle.org asking for Moodlers to help out and send in their 1.9 courses for further testing. The restore 1.9 backups into Moodle 2.1 tracker item has been very busy and the status now says “closed”.

Moodle 2.1 is set to be released on July 1st. Please help out Moodle by testing 2.1 on the QA Moodle site. Learn how to help!