ALA ITTS has set a date for the Moodle upgrade: Wednesday, July 21st, during maintenance hours (5:00 PM CST until it is completed). We will be copying Moodle over to a new server and upgrading it. During this time, Moodle will be placed in “maintenance mode” and will not be accessible. This upgrade will not only give us the most stable, up-to-date version 1.9.8, but it should also give us quite a performance boost.
1.9.8 has minimal, if any interfaces changes. Most students and instructors should not notice any differences. If you would like to learn about the changes please read the release notes at: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.8_release_notes