Projects for new developers
We often get asked to suggest Moodle development projects suitable for students to attempt. Here is a list of such projects that no-one is currently working on. You should contact Martin Dougiamas before starting on any of these, just in case this page is out of date.
All of these projects are also suitable for the Google Summer of Code 2006, a Google project that Moodle is part of. When applying for any of these projects, please include as much evidence as possible of your previous coding experience, and also include a description of how you plan to tackle the project (beyond our description below).
Projects that no-one is working on yet
Global search
Design a modular solution for global search in Moodle. Some of the main criteria are:
- it should be fast and accurate
- it should allow modules to expose their data structures to the core search via the usual API (function in lib.php) allowing any module to include itself in the search
- it should allow the kinds of search parameters that the forum search does now (or better!)
- people should not be able to search things they couldn't normally see
- it should utilise the new tags system as much as possible
- (extra points) it should be able to rank results by relevance and combine results in different modules
Mentor: Martin Dougiamas
Presets for Database module
Implement presets for the Database module using files similar to this example.
- Each directory of files will fully define the templates and fields for a particular application of the Database module.
- It should be easy to export current settings as a preset (in a zip file), or load new presets (uploaded as a zip file or from the moodledata folder)
- A "glossary" preset should replicate the old Glossary module as much as possible (this may require some extensions to the core Database module)
- The "Image gallery" preset should implement a really nice photo gallery application.
- (extra points) devise a way to publish these directly to another site (for example a database on moodle.org)
Mentor: Martin Dougiamas
More projects are being added here soon ...
Projects under development
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