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Roadmap

From MoodleDocs

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 development process). Because of this, the details below are an indication of current MAJOR 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.

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.

Upcoming important dates

  • 2.8 Code freeze (no new features accepted): 6th October 2014
  • 2.8 QA begins (start of QA testing): 13th October 2014
  • 2.8 Release date (assuming all tests pass): 10th November 2014

Major areas of development

Here are the broad themes of development for Moodle. A lot of smaller projects are going on in all these areas.

Platform

  • Usability : organisation and navigation of courses, activities and other features
  • Plugins infrastructure : improving 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 disabilites
  • Small touchscreens - making Moodle work well on phones and tablets
  • Offline - our Moodle Mobile app provides offline capabilities for Moodle.

Learning 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
  • Reporting : allowing easy customised reports that combines data from various areas in Moodle

Analytics and Feedback

  • Logging : Improved access to events data
  • Analytics : Automatic analysis of learning data to find trends and events that help teachers and learners
  • Notifications: Real-time messaging to mobile devices of events determined by analytics

Open 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

See also

  • Releases - versions of Moodle that have already been released