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This document is your starting point for learning about our plans for upcoming releases of Moodle. See our Releases page for details about current and past releases.

Major areas of development

Here are the broad themes of development for Moodle, which are heavily influenced by requests from our user community. A lot of projects are going on in all these areas.

Platform

Usability - organisation and navigation of courses, activities and other features
Plugins infrastructure - improving environment for development and management of Moodle plugins
Support infrastructure - improving central support documentation and services for users of Moodle

Access

Accessibility - social inclusion for people with all kinds of disabilities
Small touchscreens - making Moodle work well on phones and tablets
Offline - our Moodle Mobile app provides offline capabilities for Moodle.

Management

Outcomes and competencies - better tracking of what people know
Learning plans - better tracking of what people need to know
Workflow - guiding learning processes between different people
Rollover - handling end-of-year processes for recycling and archiving courses

Feedback

Logging - Improved access to events data
Analytics - Automated analysis of learning data to find trends and events that help teachers, learners and admins
Reporting - Easy customised reports that combine data from various areas in Moodle
Notifications- Real-time messaging to mobile devices of events determined by analytics and reports

Content (OER)

moodle.net - our central repository for shared Moodle courses and other Moodle data
Template courses - crowd-sourced development of shared Moodle courses using Creative Commons

Moodle 3.4

After Moodle 2.0 we switched to time-based releases rather than feature-based releases (see our development process). Because of this, the details below are an indication of current priorities only, and are subject to change according to how long things actually take to finish. Anything not ready by the following dates will generally be pushed to the next major release.

Current major work

(Platform) [SCSS performance and stability improvements (Complete)]
(Usability) [Additional usability improvements for course overview / dashboard (Complete)]
(Usability) [Promote the Mobile App in Core (Complete)]
(Usability) [Add next / previous links to activities (Complete)]
(Analytics) [Add Inspire Analytics to Core (In progress)]
(Usability) [Improvements to the Calendar (MUA Project) (In progress)]
(Usability) [Merge Participants and Enrolments Pages (In progress)]
(Platform) [Specifications for GDPR Compliance (In progress)]

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 This document is your starting point for learning about our plans for upcoming releases of Moodle.  See our [[Releases]] page for details about current and past releases.
-After Moodle 2.0 we switched to time-based releases rather than feature-based releases (see our [[Process|development process]]).  Because of this, the details below are an indication of current priorities only, and are subject to change according to how long things actually take to finish.  If something is not ready for a release then it will generally just be pushed to the next major release.
+==Major areas of development==
-These larger items in the roadmap are part of a long-term development vision for Moodle, which is heavily influenced by requests from our user community.  Each release also includes a lot of smaller items that come direct from the community and are included in core if they are popular and if they "fit" the overall design.
+Here are the broad themes of development for Moodle, which are heavily influenced by requests from our user community.  A lot of projects are going on in all these areas.
+===Platform===
+* '''Usability''' - organisation and navigation of courses, activities and other features
+* '''Plugins infrastructure''' - improving environment for development and management of Moodle plugins
+* '''Support infrastructure''' - improving central support documentation and services for users of Moodle
-=== Moodle 2.6 ===
+===Access===
+* '''Accessibility''' - social inclusion for people with all kinds of disabilities
+* '''Small touchscreens''' - making Moodle work well on phones and tablets
+* '''Offline'''  - our Moodle Mobile app provides offline capabilities for Moodle.
-Feature freeze: It might be something like 7th October
+===Management===
-Release date: 11th November (we hope)
+* '''Outcomes and competencies''' - better tracking of what people know
+* '''Learning plans''' - better tracking of what people need to know
+* '''Workflow''' - guiding learning processes between different people
+* '''Rollover''' - handling end-of-year processes for recycling and archiving courses
+===Feedback===
+* '''Logging''' - Improved access to events data
+* '''Analytics''' - Automated analysis of learning data to find trends and events that help teachers, learners and admins
+* '''Reporting''' - Easy customised reports that combine data from various areas in Moodle
+* '''Notifications'''- Real-time messaging to mobile devices of events determined by analytics and reports
+===Content (OER)===
+* '''moodle.net''' - our central repository for shared Moodle courses and other Moodle data
+* '''Template courses''' - crowd-sourced development of shared Moodle courses using Creative Commons
-===Major projects for the near future===
+==Moodle 3.4==
-This list is currently in flux, watch for updates soon.
+After Moodle 2.0 we switched to time-based releases rather than feature-based releases (see our [[Process|development process]]).  Because of this, the details below are an indication of current priorities only, and are subject to change according to how long things actually take to finish.  Anything not ready by the following dates will generally be pushed to the next major release.
-Moodle HQ Backend
+===Current major work===
-* [[Logging 2]] - Completely new framework for logging and reporting in Moodle
-* Mnet - replacement using standard Oauth2 mechanisms and web services
-Moodle HQ Frontend
+* (Platform) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59122 SCSS performance and stability improvements (Complete)]]
-* Mobile usability project
+* (Usability) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59025 Additional usability improvements for course overview / dashboard (Complete)]]
-* Wiki - Review OUWiki as a replacement for wiki in core
+* (Usability) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59192 Promote the Mobile App in Core (Complete)]]
-* Forum - extend Forum with requested features
+* (Usability) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59313 Add next / previous links to activities (Complete)]]
-* [[Survey 2 module|Survey]] - An activity module to combine Survey, Questionnaire and Feedback
+* (Analytics) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-57791 Add Inspire Analytics to Core (In progress)]]
+* (Usability) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59333 Improvements to the Calendar (MUA Project) (In progress)]]
-External developers:
+* (Usability) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59290 Merge Participants and Enrolments Pages (In progress)]]
-* [[Outcomes_Specification|Outcomes stage 2]] - Connecting outcomes with rubrics and learning plans
+* (Platform) [[https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-59286 Specifications for GDPR Compliance (In progress)]]
 ==See also==
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 * [[Releases]] - versions of Moodle that have already been released
+[[es:Plan de desarrollo]]
 [[fr:Planification]]
 [[Category:Core development]]

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