GSOC/2016

An overview of the Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Moodle.

For more details, see the GSOC 2016 course at dev.moodle.org.

The final projects were presented at the Developer meeting September 2016 - see the meeting video archive.

Plugin skeleton generator

The project’s aim was to make developing plugins a much easier task. A new tool was designed and implemented by the GSOC student. Based on coding techniques used by existing plugins, on the guides and specifications found in the Moodle developer documentation, as well as on the user’s input, the new tool generates skeleton code that can be used to build new Moodle plugins.

• Project status: Successfully passed
• Project output: Moodle plugin accepted into the Moodle Plugins directory: https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_pluginskel
• Documentation: Plugin skeleton generator docs page
• Student: Alexandru Elisei
• Mentor: David Mudrák
• Detailed project spec page: tool_pluginkenobi

Adding search to more Moodle components

Several key search areas like users or messages have been successfully integrated into Moodle's core expanding global search subsystem's functionality to cover all major search use cases. You can see the full list of issues in this epic.

• Project status: Successfully passed
• Project output: Integrated into Moodle's core
• Student: Devang Gaur
• Mentor: David Monllaó
• Issues: Moodle tracker issue

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• Student: Joey Andres
• Mentor: Mark Nelson

Add support to end-to-end testing in the Mobile app

The project's aim was to add more end to end tests to the Mobile application. Supun developed almost 30 new tests that were integrated into Moodle Mobile.

• Project status: Successfully passed
• Project output: Almost 30 new tests integrated into Moodle Mobile
• Student: Supun Wanniarachchi
• Mentor: Juan Leyva
• Original branch with the new tests
• Related issues: MOBILE-1864 AND MOBILE-1179
• Detailed project documentation

See Also

Moodle announces GSoC participants