Development: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
• Ajax user selector
• How enrolments should work in Moodle 2.0

Modules and other recognised plugin types

Lesson

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

Quiz & question types

• Calculated question development
• Numerical question units and intervals
• Plans for adaptive mode
• Quiz UI redesign
• Implementation of true negative marks in MC-type questions
• Administration page for question types
• Moodle 2.0 question bank improvements - including question tagging and improved searchability.
• Shortanswer question development

Other activity modules

• Forum functional upgrade
• Wiki module development

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

Other

• MoodleDocs development
• Usability
• Document Management API
• Possible integration of WIKINDX with Moodle
• Quiz and quesions community testing day
• 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

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

Quiz & 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