GSOC/2008

Overview of the Google Summer of Code 2008 projects for Moodle. Thanks to Google for the opportunity to get these developed!

Detecting and solving specific usability issues

The main objective of this project is to detect and solve specific usability issues.

Student: Laia Subirats Maté

Mentors: David Horat and Anthony Borrow

Full specification: Usability issues

XMLDB/SQLite

This project is about adding SQLite to the Moodle database abstraction layer and adding a mechanism to copy a live Moodle database into a SQLite database to implement a mechanism to switch into 'testing mode' using a SQLite copy of the live database.

Student: Andrei Bautu

Mentor: Penny Leach

Full specification: SQLite

Animated grade statistics report

This project is about using the Flare library to develop some cool and useful visualisation of information in the Moodle gradebook.

Student: Daniel Servos

Mentors: Greg Wilson, Anthony Borrow and Nicolas Connault

Full specification: Animated grade statistics report

Web 2.0 language editing interface

Moodle is designed to be translated into many languages, and currently has over 70 language packs. The existing language editing interface enables translators to check for untranslated words or phrases and also enables Moodle administrators to change words or phrases used in Moodle.

This project will involve creating a Web 2.0 language editing interface which will include features such as syntax error detection, a search and replace function for changing a particular word and a spell checker.

Student: Avi Mehta

Mentors: David Mudrák, Petr Skoda (Skodak) and Koen Roggemans

Full specification: Language editing interface

Feed aggregation library

This project involves creating a feed aggregation library to take care of aggregating feeds (and the issues around it) and to provide them in a simple format for plugins and other core parts of Moodle to use.

Student: Chris Zubak-Skees

Mentor: Dan Poltawski

Full specification: Feed aggregation library

Tracker Issue: [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-504 CONTRIB-504]

New customisable theme

This project is about creating a theme for Moodle 1.9 which is customizable via a configuration page in Moodle.

Student: Akshit Sharma

Mentor: Shane Elliott

Full specification: Customisable theme

Tracker Issue: MDL 15395

Blog improvements and the addition of a blog assignment module

The existing Blog functionality will be improved as part of this project, and a blog assignment type developed.

Student: Joey Morwick

Mentor: Mathieu Petit-Clair

Full specification: Blog improvements

Messaging improvements

Student: Luis Filipe Romão Rodrigues

Mentor: Martin Dougiamas

Full specification: Further messaging improvements

Automatic accessibility checking

Student: David W. Knight

Mentors: David Horat and Martin Dougiamas

Full specification: Automatic accessibility checking

Competency tracking

This project is about tracking the competency of a user based on the course outcome, the desired grade and the grade that the user obtained for the course.

Student: Sarves Kengatharaiyer

Mentors: Martin Dougiamas and Jonathan Newman

Full specification: Competency tracking

Secure RSS feeds

Student: Askar Salimbaev

Mentor: Nicolas Connault

Full specification: Secure RSS feeds

Moodle IDE

This project is about creating a Moodle integrated development environment (IDE), based on Eclipse, so that new developers can begin developing Moodle in less time.

Student: Grady Laksmono

Mentors: Petr Skoda (Skodak) and Anthony Borrow

Full specification: Moodle IDE