Roadmap

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 1.6 - Beta expected late February 2006

Unicode - Moodle.com, Eloy Lafuente and Koen Roggemans

Moodle is now 100% Unicode, which means any language can be mixed together and an end to a number of problems that different character sets caused us.

Documentation - Moodle.com and Helen Foster

A new one-stop Wiki site for ALL Moodle documentation, including links from Moodle itself

Database - Moodle.com

A new activity module that allows collaborative collection of structured data, useful for many things!

LAMS - LAMS Foundation

Integrated via a course format and an activity module

Blogs - Daryl Hawes and Moodle.com

Allows reflection on an ongoing basis. Entries are marked and can be viewed by user, course, group, site etc. Contains new keyword support.

Site Stats - Catalyst

Provides statistics at a higher level than before (by course etc)

My Moodle - Catalyst

A dashboard interface that allows an overview for each user of all their courses etc

Hive integration - Moodle.com and Harvest Road

This initial integration with Hive allows teachers to upload, browse, search and select Resources within the external repository.

Multiple Groups - Moodle.com and Arab Open University

Users can be part of multiple groups within a course.

IMS Resource - Eloy Lafuente and Alton College

Supports the loading of any content package as a Resource, plus special support for NLN repositories.

Learning Design Export - Moodle.com and Open University of The Netherlands

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.

Granularised Backup - Catalyst and Eloy Lafuente

Chameleon -

Version 2.0 - Expected end of 2006

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. It also provides support for

Roles - moodle.com

this new system will allow the creation of custom roles at site, course and activity level

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

Accessibility - moodle.com

Full compliance with all major accessibility standards

Web Services API

Providing remote control and access of Moodle services by other systems, as well as sharing of information between Moodle sites with trust relationships.