 Moodle, the modular, flexible and secure learning platform for educators to create online learning environments. Each version release we aim to improve our open source learning platform which is used by organisations across the globe including schools, universities, workplaces, distance education and government. Moodle 2.9 is a collection of hundreds of smaller new features and refinements from Moodle HQ and our entire community of contributors making online education with Moodle easier than ever. This release includes user interface improvements, course creation improvements and new API developer features. At the user interface we've worked to improve navigation around the user pages with updates to some familiar terms. The dashboard page, previously my home, offers users links to their courses and activities as well as the ability for users to customise the layout using blocks. In the user menu drop down users can access the new preferences page which centralises all preferences into one place including accounts, blogs and badges. Students can now view all their course grades on a single page and the new overview report can be viewed from within any course. Another great feature is that images can now be added to any content in Moodle by dragging and dropping from your desktop straight into our ATO text editor. There's a number of new features of particular interest to Moodle course creators. The quiz module in 2.9 now gives you the ability to add section headings, more easily randomised questions and print quizzes attractively along with making questions conditional upon others. Lesson now allows you to give extensions to students and set a minimum time limit. Some other small features such as deleting course sections also help increase the efficiency of teachers and course managers. There are a number of updates for developers to help enable them to make higher quality plugins and themes. Some of the support includes additional BHAB tests, native time zone support, native support for mustache templates in themes and a variety of JavaScript frameworks including jQuery. These and all the improvements of Moodle 2.9 are focused on helping educators and students spending less time navigating and more time teaching and learning effectively. Thank you to our team of developers and all community contributors for the last six months of collaborative efforts on all the new features and improvements in Moodle 2.9. Special thanks also to our Moodle partners who are funding most of this core work giving the world an open source learning platform that anyone can use. Discover all the improvements in Moodle 2.9 at Moodle.org