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*Tim Hunt will be the main person working on quiz | *Tim Hunt will be the main person working on quiz | ||
*1.6 quiz is much cleaner, set up for growth, enabling questions in different modules, developing assessment type using questions | *1.6 quiz is much cleaner, set up for growth, enabling questions in different modules, developing assessment type using questions | ||
*Comment from Mike Churchward: Hopefully more modules will use questions in future e.g. [[Questionnaire module]] | *Comment from [[User:Mike Churchward|Mike]]: Hopefully more modules will use questions in future e.g. [[Questionnaire module]] | ||
===Themes=== | ===Themes=== | ||
*[[1.6 theme upgrade]] documentation | *[[1.6 theme upgrade]] documentation | ||
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*Currently polishing the general spec, publishing it soon - see [[Roles]] | *Currently polishing the general spec, publishing it soon - see [[Roles]] | ||
*Comments from Matt Oquist: OU proposal not generic enough, need ownership and permissions on a fine grained level, seems illogical to have separate permissions system for repository and roles - see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38788 Roles and Permissions architecture] forum discussion | *Comments from Matt Oquist: OU proposal not generic enough, need ownership and permissions on a fine grained level, seems illogical to have separate permissions system for repository and roles - see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=38788 Roles and Permissions architecture] forum discussion | ||
*Comment from Gustav: We should consider how [http://bodington.org/index.php Boddington] handles roles - see [http://bodington.org/bodacc.php flash movie demonstrating roles interface] | *Comment from Gustav: We should consider how [http://bodington.org/index.php Boddington] (UK Open Source VLE) handles roles - see [http://bodington.org/bodacc.php flash movie demonstrating roles interface] | ||
==Additional comments== | |||
*[[Gradebook]] needs fixing (changing from 'pull' to 'push'), anyone interested please get in contact, would love it to be in 1.7 | *[[Gradebook]] needs fixing (changing from 'pull' to 'push'), anyone interested please get in contact, would love it to be in 1.7 | ||
*Unfortunately dfwiki not in 1.6 - interface better but still needs work, hopefully it will be included in 1.7 | *Unfortunately dfwiki not in 1.6 - interface better but still needs work, hopefully it will be included in 1.7 | ||
*Please can everyone add hacks, plugins, modules etc. to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009 Modules and plugins database] (just need to allow different people to edit database entries) | *Please can everyone add hacks, plugins, modules etc. to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009 Modules and plugins database] (just need to allow different people to edit database entries) | ||
*SCORM 1.2 and AICC supported, but not yet SCORM 2004; new [[SCORM]] maintainer, Sadiel, a Moodle Partner | *SCORM 1.2 and AICC supported, but not yet SCORM 2004; new [[SCORM]] maintainer, Sadiel, a Moodle Partner (David Puente and team) | ||
*Re. web services, see [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44079 Web Services in forthcoming Moodle] forum discussion | |||
*Comment from [[User:Mike Churchward|Mike]]: Contracted to do web services (gradebook, enrolments etc.), standardised IMS enterprise, working demo, want work to be right for everyone - see [[Web Services API]] | |||
*RE. Google Summer of Code, 60 applications! Next year we must be organised, more opened up, more mentors, with projects in all areas of Moodle; potential for 30 or 40 projects; the Summer of Code gets bigger and better every year - it should be part of the Moodle calendar; anyone wanting to mentor existing projects, please contact Martin - see [[Student projects]] | |||
*Comment from Tim Hunt: If 1.7 is to be released in September, how do we stop people making changes in August? Mozilla is a good model for releases, how about a public list of key bugs to fix before release? | |||
*Reply from [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin]]: Accessibility and Sourceforge cvs caused 1.6 delay, need everyone's help with releases, use bug tracker advanced search | |||
*Comment from Tim Hunt: [http://oci.open.ac.uk/ OU Open Content Initiative] using Moodle to present stuff, October deadline then a series of releases | |||
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Revision as of 23:03, 20 May 2006
Developer conferences > May 2006 conference notes
Moodle 1.6
Quiz
- Gustav Delius is handing over the Quiz module to the Open University on Tuesday 23rd May 2006
- Tim Hunt will be the main person working on quiz
- 1.6 quiz is much cleaner, set up for growth, enabling questions in different modules, developing assessment type using questions
- Comment from Mike Churchward: Hopefully more modules will use questions in future e.g. Questionnaire module
Themes
- 1.6 theme upgrade documentation
- Unfortunate that theme developments were reverted - better to have tested more before committing
- Currently problems with a "you are here" link and the jump link between blocks (see skip-block feature new in 1.6 forum discussion), images in navigation not so nice and the alternate icon set is incomplete
- Lots of deprecated tags still in 1.6 - these should be cleaned up for 1.7, using a page in Moodle Docs rather than the bug tracker
Moodle 1.6 code
- Comment from Gustav Delius: Lots of different styles of code - difficult for newcomers to know what to copy
- Reply from Martin Dougiamas: Database module should be a good example with classes, plugins etc.
Release
- 1.6 should be released as soon as possible
- Petr currently working on security bugs
- The advice to backup everything before upgrading should be reinforced
- Big sites will take a long time to migrate the database to UTF-8
Moodle 1.7
Database schema
- Database support to be extended to SQL server and Oracle
- Single system, one file in xml format; things more automated and regular
- Explicit sql must be cleaned up, isolated in lib, pull out generalised sql and put in core file, may still need switch statements
- Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) working out the issues - see XML database schema
- Comments from Tim Hunt: datalib is big, getting even bigger, should we split? Should have unit testing for each database.
Roles and permissions
- permissions = capabilities
- The Open University (OU) have extended Martin and Shane's initial ideas
- Site, course and activity level roles
- Moodle HQ will do the work (funded by OU)
- Currently polishing the general spec, publishing it soon - see Roles
- Comments from Matt Oquist: OU proposal not generic enough, need ownership and permissions on a fine grained level, seems illogical to have separate permissions system for repository and roles - see Roles and Permissions architecture forum discussion
- Comment from Gustav: We should consider how Boddington (UK Open Source VLE) handles roles - see flash movie demonstrating roles interface
Additional comments
- Gradebook needs fixing (changing from 'pull' to 'push'), anyone interested please get in contact, would love it to be in 1.7
- Unfortunately dfwiki not in 1.6 - interface better but still needs work, hopefully it will be included in 1.7
- Please can everyone add hacks, plugins, modules etc. to the Modules and plugins database (just need to allow different people to edit database entries)
- SCORM 1.2 and AICC supported, but not yet SCORM 2004; new SCORM maintainer, Sadiel, a Moodle Partner (David Puente and team)
- Re. web services, see Web Services in forthcoming Moodle forum discussion
- Comment from Mike Churchward: Contracted to do web services (gradebook, enrolments etc.), standardised IMS enterprise, working demo, want work to be right for everyone - see Web Services API
- RE. Google Summer of Code, 60 applications! Next year we must be organised, more opened up, more mentors, with projects in all areas of Moodle; potential for 30 or 40 projects; the Summer of Code gets bigger and better every year - it should be part of the Moodle calendar; anyone wanting to mentor existing projects, please contact Martin - see Student projects
- Comment from Tim Hunt: If 1.7 is to be released in September, how do we stop people making changes in August? Mozilla is a good model for releases, how about a public list of key bugs to fix before release?
- Reply from Martin Dougiamas: Accessibility and Sourceforge cvs caused 1.6 delay, need everyone's help with releases, use bug tracker advanced search
- Comment from Tim Hunt: OU Open Content Initiative using Moodle to present stuff, October deadline then a series of releases