Projects for new developers

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.

Skills required: PHP

Difficulty level: Medium

Mentors: To be confirmed

For further details see:

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

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

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