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| This roadmap collects the best information about upcoming features in Moodle. It is not 100% certain - features may change according to available funding and developers. | | This page has now moved to https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Roadmap |
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| == Version 2.0 ==
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| Expected mid-2009 or so. You can track our current progress on the [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pDVzrUsKEBnChh0nn7-FTYA Moodle 2.0 Planning document]. Please remember that this document is frequently updated and details can change a lot!
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| ===Major features===
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| ====Requirements====
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| * Moodle 2.0 will require PHP 5.2.8 as a minimum, allowing us to clean up the code in some areas and avoid some serious PHP bugs. For more info see: [http://gophp5.org/ gophp5.org].
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| ====File handling improvements====
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| * [[Development:File API|File API]] - Moodle.com
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| ::maintains an internal repository of files and governs access to them
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| * [[Development:Repository API|Repository API]] - Moodle.com
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| :: allows users to browse external repositories and select files to bring into Moodle
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| * [[Development:Portfolio API|Portfolio API]] - Moodle.com
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| :: allows Moodle content to be captured and pushed out to external repositories.
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| :: These three are separate but complementary so will be developed together.
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| ====Improvements to the organisation of courses====
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| * [[Development:Conditional activities|Conditional activities]] - Open University (Sam Marshall)
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| ::Allowing dependencies and forced paths through activities: ie "You can't do this thing until that thing is completed".
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| * [[Development:Progress tracking|Progress tracking]] - REQUIRES FUNDING!
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| ::AKA Proper competency tracking, so that individuals can have learning plans listing outcomes/courses which are updated when courses are completed.
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| * [[Development:Navigation 2.0]] - REQUIRES FUNDING!
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| :: refactor [[Development:Pagelib_2.0|Pages]], [[Development:Blocks_2.0|Blocks]], tabs and menus to make pages easier to put together and improve navigation everywhere.
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| * [[Development:Course_completion|Course completion]]
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| :: interface that allows teachers to specify exactly when a course should be considered finished for each user
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| ====Changes to activity modules====
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| * [[NWiki roadmap|New Wiki]] module (nwiki) - DFWikiteam-UPC
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| :: To be cleaned up and included as a core module.
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| * [[Feedback module]] - Andreas Grabs
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| :: Polished and included as a core module.
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| * Quiz module and question bank
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| ** [[Development:Quiz_report_enhancements|Quiz report enhancements]] - Jamie Pratt, contracted by The Open University
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| **: Major improvements to the quiz reports, especially regrading and item analysis.
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| ** [[Development:quiz_navigation|Quiz navigation improvements for students]] - Tim Hunt, The Open University
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| ** [[Development:Flagging_questions_during_a_quiz_attempt|Flagging questions during a quiz attempt]] - Tim Hunt, moodle.com.
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| ** [[Development:Quiz_UI_redesign|Quiz editing interface improvements]] - Olli Savolainen, [http://www.coss.fi/web/coss/developers/sum Finnish Summer Code project].
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| ** MDL-8648 Essay questions can now be randomised by random questions. <small>Note that this change is not backwards compatible if you upgrade a Moodle 1.9 site with random questions that pick from categories containing a mixture of essay and non-essay questions. The behaviour of some quizzes will change.</small> - Tim Hunt, moodle.com.
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| ** [[Development:Moodle 2.0 question bank improvements|Question tagging and improved searching in the question bank]] - Tim Hunt, moodle.com.
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| ** [[Development:Administration page for question types|Administration page for question types]] - Tim Hunt, moodle.com.
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| ** [[Question_types#Regular_Expression_Short_Answer|Regular Expression question type]] added to the official Moodle distribution - Joseph Rézeau.
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| ====Improvements to other bits of Moodle====
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| * [[Development:HTML editor 2.0|HTML editor 2.0]] - Moodle.com
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| ::Replaces our ageing HTMLarea with a new one that works on more browsers, enforces XHTML strict and better integrates with the new [[Development:File API|File API]]
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| * [[Student projects/Blog improvements|Blog 2.0]] - Moodle.com
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| :: Add commenting to blogs (MDL-8776), as well as support for external blogs
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| * [[Development:Messaging_2.0|Messaging 2.0]] - Moodle.com
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| :: Refactor messaging to use plugins for input and output, controlled by users
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| * [[Student projects/Secure RSS feeds|Secure RSS feeds]] - Moodle.com
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| :: Obscure RSS feed URLs using private keys, controlled by users.
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| * [[Development:Backup_2.0|Backup 2.0]] - Moodle.com
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| :: New backup that actually works on large courses etc and is faster. Old backup will be retained as a separate directory to import old backups.
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| * [[Development:IMS_CC|IMS Common Cartridge]] (REQUIRES FUNDING!)
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| :: IMS CC import and hopefully export.
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| * [[Development:Site-wide groups]] - Moodle.com (REQUIRES FUNDING!)
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| :: Site wide groups are a number one request
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| * More tagging
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| :: Tagging of courses, activities and other things
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| * AJAX for gradebook User Interfaces - Moodle.com (REQUIRES FUNDING!)
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| :: A host of UI improvements to enhance usability and speed
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| * General usability review - Moodle.com
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| :: We'll be attacking many of the [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL/component/10309?selected=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:component-popularissues-panel most popular issues from the Moodle Tracker]
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| ====Administrative improvements====
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| * [[Community hub]] interfaces - Moodle.com and others
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| ::Makes it easy for users to find and navigate other systems and external Moodle repositories, leveraging the Moodle Network in various ways.
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| * [[Development:Web_services|Standard Web Services Layer]] - UPC and moodle.com
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| ::Standard set of core API functions made available via SOAP and XML-RPC
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| * [[Development:Enrolment plugins 2.0|Enrolments improvements]] including groups synchronisation - moodle.com (skodak)
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| :: Several major improvements related guest access, course enrolments, metacourses and groups synchronisations (aka global groups)
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| * [[Development:Roles administration improvements for Moodle 2.0|Improvements to the roles administration interfaces]] - Tim Hunt, moodle.com and others.
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| * [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-16348 Admin report plugins can choose where in the admin tree they get added] - Tim Hunt, moodle.com.
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| ====Internal clean-ups====
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| * [[Development:DB layer 2.0|DB layer 2.0]] - Moodle.com
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| :: MDL-14679 Database access is to be refactored so that: we can use prepared statements everywhere for increased security and some performance, we put datalib functions in a class to allow better unit tests (mock db), and remove the need for slashes in userspace. This will cause breakage for 3rd party modules (but [[Development:DB_layer_2.0_migration_docs|fixing them won't be too hard]]).
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| * Old DB install/upgrade system removed - Moodle.com
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| :: The deprecated system for installing or upgrading database entries used in Moodle < 1.7 will be completely removed, while supporting only the new XML based database scheme introduced in 1.7.
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| ===Hopefully===
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| * [[Student Information API]]
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| ::API for integrating external systems for managing student information
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| * [[Development:Voice|Moodle Voice]]
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| :: Moodle Voice is a project for embedding VoiceXML support into Moodle Core.
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| * [[Learning Design export]]? - Moodle.com and Open University of The Netherlands
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| ::We plan to have a very simple export for any Moodle course into IMS LD format, as a proof of concept and to help the community start learning about IMS LD.
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| * [[Turnitin Integration]] - Dan Marsden with support from Catalyst NZ
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| * Workshop module refactoring and re-inclusion - (REQUIRES FUNDING!)
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| * Lesson module refactoring - (REQUIRES FUNDING!)
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Release Notes]]
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| [[Category:Developer]]
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| [[es:Planificación]]
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| [[fr:Planification]]
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