Roadmap
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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.
Version 1.8 - Expected January 2007
- Accessibility - Moodle.com
- Full compliance with all major accessibility standards
- Site-wide groups, reusable groups, and assigning activities to groups are the major improvements being developed
- Multi Authentication - Iñaki Arenaza / Jonathan Harker (Catalyst) / Martin Langhoff (Catalyst)
- Customisable User Profiles - Pukunui Technology
- Allow fields to be added to the user profile.
- Authorize.net Payment Gateway enrolment plugin
- Payment managers can obtain an authorization code over phone from customer's bank if the credit card of the user cannot be captured on the internet directly.
Version 1.9 - Expected April 2007
- Repository API - Open University and Moodle.com
- Abstract all file operations to an API that allows plugins for different external repositories
- Moodle Net - Catalyst and Moodle.com
- Allow users to connect to from one Moodler to another in a peer-to-peer fashion, safely.
Version 2.0 - Expected July 2007
- IMS Learning Design - Moodle.com
- Support for importing/exporting LD, converting Moodle activities and sequences of activities into a standard format for sharing, and importing standard sequences into Moodle courses
- Conditional activities - Moodle.com
- Allowing dependencies and forced paths through the content
- Metadata - Moodle.com
- Build on the keywords in 1.6 to provide metadata for all activities and courses, linkable to standard lists of metadata such as State-based learning outomes and curricula
- Providing remote control and access of Moodle services by other systems, as well as sharing of information between Moodle sites with trust relationships.
- API for integrating external systems for managing student information
- Community hub - Moodle.com - Catalyst
- Leverage above improvements into a system to network Moodles together
Note: Moodle 2.0 will require PHP 5.1 as a minimum, because of certain improvements not available in PHP 4.
Version 2.1
- Interface Moodle activities and repositories to help produce portfolios for internal assessment AND external publication
