Projects for new developers

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Latest news: Moodle has applied to be a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2009! 09:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

The list of accepted mentoring organisations will be announced on Wednesday 18 March 2009. The student application period will begin on Monday 23 March 2009.

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.

Custom report generator

An interface for enabling Moodle admins to create custom reports.

• Using Moodle Feature for creating custom reports forum discussion
• Tracker issue MDL-18323

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.

• Using Moodle Record audio repository plugin and GSOC: Record Audio/Video directly into resources/activities forum discussions
• Tracker issue MDL-18341

Google Gears integration

• http://gears.google.com
• Using Moodle Google Gear integration forum discussion
• Tracker issue MDL-18444

XML admin settings presets

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

• Using Moodle GSOC project: XML admin settings presets forum discussion
• Tracker issue MDL-18548

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.

• The initial proposal in the Database module forum
• Tracker issue MDL-18572

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. Greg Wilson is willing to mentor.

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
• Development:Usability/Improve Moodle User Experience Consistency