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:'''Skills required''': PHP and JavaScript
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:'''Difficulty level''': Medium
:'''Mentors''': [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=508833&course=5 Dongsheng Cai] and [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=21591&course=5 Dan Marsden]
:'''Mentors''': [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=508833&course=5 Dongsheng Cai] and [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=21591&course=5 Dan Marsden]

Revision as of 09:35, 30 March 2009

Moodle will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code for our fourth year in 2009!

If you're thinking of applying to work with Moodle for GSOC 2009, please see Applying to work with Moodle for GSOC.


This evolving page lists possible Moodle projects for new developers derived from community suggestions.

If you have any ideas for new features in Moodle which might be suitable as GSOC projects, please see Development:New feature ideas.


Custom report generator

An interface for enabling Moodle admins to create custom reports.

Skills required: PHP
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: To be confirmed

For further details see:

Record audio repository plugin

Use a Flash or Java plugin to record the audio to a suitable compressed format. The data could then be uploaded as for a File upload plugin.

Skills required: PHP and Flash or Java
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: To be confirmed

For further details see:

Google Gears integration

Skills required: PHP and JavaScript
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: Dongsheng Cai and Dan Marsden

For further details see:

XML admin settings presets

Create an interface for allowing administrators to export settings in an XML file for restoring to another Moodle site.

Skills required: PHP
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: Penny Leach, Dan Poltawski

For further details see:

Workflow support in the Database activity module

Add the ability to control the state of a database record, permissions at different state levels and email notifications.

Skills required: PHP and understanding UML syntax of state diagrams, workflow principles
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: David Mudrák

For further details see:

Flash-Based Statistics Visualizer

Continue work done by Dan Servos for GSoC 2008 to create a Moodle plugin that can visualize grades and other statistics interactively through a browser. The current version allows users to do correlations, time-series charts, etc., on a lot of the data Moodle records; more viz tools, export, etc., would make it extremely useful to people dealing with large courses.

Skills required: PHP and Flash
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: Greg Wilson

For further details see:

What You Paint Is What You Get extension to the WYSIWYG editor

Younger Moodle users like drawing and painting more than writing. Add a feature that lets the main text editor of Moodle switch to "draw" mode.

Skills required: PHP and Flash or JavaScript or other alternative
Difficulty level: High
Mentors: Martin Langhoff

For further details see:

Blog-style course format

Course formats drive the main page in Moodle -- the course page. The existing course formats assume that the teacher has everthing planned ahead of time, and that the course fits in one page. Primary teachers live in a different world -- they prepare each day no more than a few days beforehand, and their course is a year long. A blog-style format can make their life much much simpler.

Skills required: PHP
Difficulty level: Medium-low
Mentors: Martin Langhoff

For further details see:

Improved spam detector

Improve Moodle's current Spam cleaner tool.

Skills required: PHP
Difficulty level: Medium
Mentors: To be confirmed

For further details see:

See also