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I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

There is a lot of really god things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

Popular issues on TRACKER | [

ADMIN FUNCTIONS

Admin: Cloning items

Coming soon, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone

E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390 Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

Admin: Bulk course create with CSV

Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

TEACHING FUNCTIONS

Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course

Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

Teach: E-mail to course members

Override forum setting.

Tracker item:

REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER

File_picker

File management: One Click upload of file

Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

File management: Multiple File Upload

Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114 Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831 Tracker:

Blog Posts

Discussions

FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS

See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements

Forum: listing of attached files

In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"

Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

Forum: locking a thread/forum

Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359

Forum: subscribe at the thread level

I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?

Forum: export posts at end of term

Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254

Forum: have ForumNG in core

Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

ForumNG Pages

MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS

Forum posts

Resize video

GROUPS

Groups Self enrolment

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962 http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310

SORTED Site wide groups

Now called cohorts

Groups: CSV creation of cohorts

Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

BLOGS

SORTED: blogs with comments

Blogs: blogs visible at course level only

Tracker:

Forum Posts:

SORTED Book module and 2.0

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

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 I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little.  I have also found it hard to follow the tracker.  So, this is really list #3.
+There is a lot of really god things we could do on Moodle.  And there are a lot of good plugins.  I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle.  Big organisations can make the changes they want.  Small organisations often can survive without them.  Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .
 [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [
 ==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
-===Cloning items===
+===Admin: Cloning items===
+Coming soon, I think.
 http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)
 http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)
-===e-mail user when manual account created===
+===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
 E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
 Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333
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 Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts
-===Bulk course create with CSV===
+===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
 Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
 ==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
-===Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
+===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
 Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647
 Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
+===Teach: E-mail to course members===
+Override forum setting.
+Tracker item:
 ==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
 [[File_picker]]
-===One Click upload of file===
+===File management: One Click upload of file===
 Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075
-===Multiple File Upload===
+===File management: Multiple File Upload===
 Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle.  :)
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 Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
 Tracker:
-===Other random links===
+====Other random links====
 [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
 Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
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 ===Forum: listing of attached files===
 In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality.  (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
 Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
+Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104
 ===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
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 Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965
-==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==
+==BLOGS==
+===SORTED: blogs with comments===
+===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
+Tracker:
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
+Forum Posts:
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
-#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]
 ===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
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 But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??
-===E-mail to course members===
-==Course Building questions==
-===Multiple file linking===
-#Folder option works.
-#Tick boxes?
-===Multiple file upload===
-#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
-#Other
-==Links to Content Management Systems==
-The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.
-====Copying File into Moodle====
-====Linking to File from Moodle====
-A scenario:  Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)
-# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
-# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
-# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
-# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
-# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
-# Link is marked as owned by that user
-# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )
-https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API
-Objectives:
-. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
-. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module
-Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807
-Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute
-"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."
-==SORTED: Blog with comments==
-https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements
-There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.
-Particularly here:
-#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
-#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3
-There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?
-==Turnitin==
-Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration
-==Problems==
-===PDF downloading problems 1.9===
-http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284
-http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742
-===DOCX file handling===
-http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716
-http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987
-===Ajax Drag and drop===
-Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198
-==Staff/student help==
-"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017
-What type of help is needed??
-Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

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