Projects for new developers
Latest news: Moodle will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code for our fifth year in 2011!
If you're thinking of applying to work with Moodle for GSOC 2011, please check the information on Applying to work with Moodle for GSOC and join our gsoc2011 jabber chat!
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 projects for new developers, please see Development:New feature ideas.
Moodle for Windows
Develop a new Windows package to replace the official ones at download.moodle.org/windows
- Skills required: Windows, .NET?
- Difficulty level: Medium
- Mentor:
SCORM Test Harness
Write a Test harness to automatically run the SCORM ADL tests on the latest Moodle code.
- Skills required: PHP, Javascript
- Difficulty level: Medium
- Mentor: Dan Marsden
For further details see:
- Tracker issue MDL-26912
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:
- Using Moodle Workflow support forum discussion
- Tracker issue MDL-18572
- Student projects/Workflow Support
Improved spam detector
Improve Moodle's current Spam cleaner tool.
- Skills required: PHP
- Difficulty level: Medium
- Mentors: To be confirmed
For further details see:
- Using Moodle Improved SPAM detector forum discussion
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:
- Using Moodle GSOC project: XML admin settings presets? forum discussion
- Tracker issue MDL-18548
See also
- GSOC - describing Moodle's involvement with Google in their Summer of Code program
- Talk:Projects for new developers for 2008 project ideas which have not yet been implemented