Developer notes

Note: New developer documentation pages should be added to the Development namespace by typing Development: before the new page name i.e. [[Development:New page name]].

This area is for developers to work on various bits of code and documentation as necessary. Once material has matured it should be linked to from the main Developer documentation page.

Core code

• Language issues
• Datalib Notes
• Application/session variables
• Filters schema
• Filterall support
• Groups documentation for module developers
• Plan to improve ability to delegate administrator tasks to course category level
• Stealth mode and nested activities
• How enrolments should work in Moodle 2.0
• Redesigning the override roles page

Gradebook

• Gradebook improvements - ideas from Petr.
• Tim's Gradebook thoughts

Modules and other recognised plugin types

Lesson

• Adding question types to lesson module
• New lesson navigation
• Adding blocks to lesson

Quiz & question types

• Moodle 2.0 question bank improvements - including question tagging and improved searchability.
• Proposal to change the Moodle Question Engine This supersedes
  • Plans for adaptive mode
  • Implementation of true negative marks in MC-type questions
• Calculated question development
• Numerical question units and intervals
• Improvment of editing interface for category list
• Future question bank/sharing/versioning requirements
• Development:States of a quiz attempt

Other activity modules

• Forum functional upgrade
• Wiki module development
• New assignment-replacement module

Gradebook Plugins

• Development:External Database Plugin

Other

• Blogs, forums and the nature of discussion
• Conditional activities
• Improved Payment Plugin
• Development:Moodle-specific customisations to the HTML editor
• Linked activities
• Development:Moodle Automatic Regression Test and Inspection Nit-picker

Markup & Theming

• Moodle CSS System, idea from forum discussion on Object Oriented CSS

Other

• MoodleDocs development
• Usability
• Document Management API
• Possible integration of WIKINDX with Moodle
• Development:Snapshot - flat HTML export of complete course
• Development:Offline Moodle - A Moodle that runs on a mobile device with the internet
• A standard set of fixtures for unit tests?

Archive: past proposals

Things that got implemented

Core code

• Ajax user selector
• Roles - in Moodle 1.7
• Moodle forms library - in Moodle 1.8
  • Martin form notes

Quiz & question types

• Quiz UI redesign
• Administration page for question types
• Plans for enhancing the question bank - in Moodle 1.9
• Email notification when a quiz is submitted - in Moodle 1.9
• Development:Plans for enhancing import/export in questiontype plugins - in Moodle 1.9
• Quiz navigation
• Open protocol for accessing question engines
• Quiz report enhancements
• Flagging questions during a quiz attempt

Other

• Quiz and quesions community testing day