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Moodle 3.1 release notes

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Release date: Not yet released

3.1 Release date information: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=330720

Here is [https://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=project+%3D+mdl+AND+resolution+%3D+fixed+AND+fixVersion+in+%28%223.1%22%29+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&runQuery=true&clear=true the full list of fixed issues in 3.1].

===Highlights===

* PHP extension <tt>xmlreader</tt> is now required (MDL-51603).

===Functional changes===

* ...

===API changes===

* ...

===Security issues===

A number of security related issues were resolved. Details of these issues will be released after a period of approximately one week to allow system administrators to safely update to the latest version.

===Fixes and improvements===

* MDL-51354 - Help popup and improved name for events dropdown menu on the course and site logs pages

==See also==
*[[Moodle 3.0 release notes]]

[[Category:Release notes]]
[[Category:Moodle 3.1]]

[[fr:Notes de mise à jour de Moodle 3.1]]
[[es:Notas de Moodle 3.1]]

Navigation overhaul specification

2015-11-28T03:33:15Z

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{{Infobox Project
|name = Navigation overhaul
|state = Specification
|tracker = https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-45774
|discussion = https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=261224
|assignee = Frédéric Massart, Jetha Chan
}}
{{Work in progress|forumurl=https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=261224}}
Navigation throughout Moodle is often confusing and needs some improvement. With this in mind, a specification has been prepared, defining what problems were identified and how they will be solved. Particular focus will be placed upon improving the experience of students, teachers, and users unfamiliar to Moodle.

== What can be improved ==

Common complaints leveled at Moodle include:

* '''Unnecessary steep learning curve'''
* '''Features or options not being discovered'''
* '''General frustration''' - clunkiness, a certain ''je ne sais quoi''

=== The navigation is not static ===

Sometimes when navigating from one place to another, the state of the tree in the navigation block completely changes. A good example of this is when going from a course to a module - upon arrival in a module, the Administration block will display a collapsed 'Course administration' node and a new expanded 'Module administration' node, as illustrated below.

[[File:pbnotstatic.png|frame|none|alt=Going from course to a module.|Going from course to a module.]]

Consistency should be improved here, as it is unlikely that a user unfamiliar with the system will understand sudden collapsing of or additional nodes.

=== Feature placement ===

It is our opinion that some navigation nodes contain things that you wouldn't expect, and don't contain things that you '''would'' expect. For example:

* 'My profile settings' contains 'Blogs', 'Badges' or 'Messaging'. These are not strictly related to your profile, they are related to your user account.
* What can be found under 'Site pages'?
* Notes
** In order to view Notes taken on a course level, I first need to click on 'Participants', and once the page is loaded I can see new entries in the navigation node 'Participants'. Why is this the case? Most users will not be aware of those links and will miss out on that feature, we feel.

=== Bad naming ===

Proper naming of the navigation helps the user remembering where to find what they are looking for. It also helps them to discover features that they would not otherwise be aware of, e.g. 'Calendar', hidden under 'Site pages'. If a user has no understanding of what 'Site pages' is, it is unlikely that they will expand it.

Another popular(?) example of bad naming is the link 'My grades' under 'Course administration' in the 'Administration' block. 'A student is not administrating anything, his grades are not a setting.'

=== Context jumps ===

The breadcrumb and navigation sometimes jump from one context to another. For instance, as a student when you click on 'Administration > Course administration > My grades', the navigation node on which you appear to be after clicking is 'Administration > Grade administration > User report'.

[[File:pbcontextjumps.png|frame|none|alt=Breadcrumb context jumping.|Breadcrumb context jumping.]]

It is also possible for the user to jump from a course context to a site context, leaving the course (different breadcrumb, different navigation) without realising it and instantly feeling lost. A common reaction would be to use the 'Back' button of their browser to recover from it rather than trying to understand what happened. This behaviour can be observed when visiting someone's profile, viewing some reports, etc...

[[File:pbcontextjumps2.png|frame|none|alt=Navigation context jumping.|Navigation context jumping.]]

In order for users to feel comfortable and confident, and to not feel lost in Moodle's complex page hierarchy, we need to prevent situations where they feel lost and frustrated.

=== Overwhelming the user ===

Both the navigation block and the administration block can potentially have lots of nodes in them, resulting in what is popularly derided as the "scroll of death". We posit that a good navigation system should be simple and concise, and not necessarily contain the entire site map.

== The goal ==

We seek to provide navigation that is:

* Simpler
* Intuitive
* Easy to learn

Leading to myriad benefits, including but not limited to:

; Efficiency
: Less trial and error when looking for something
; Common expectations being met
: Pages being found where you expect them to be
; A reduction in confusion and general frustration
; Less resistance
: New users feeling more confident using the product

Some risk does present itself; by changing large sections of the product, we risk alienating existing experienced Moodle users, frustrated at not finding pages where they used to be. On the other hand, re-learning the navigation should be straightforward, painless and at the very least easier than learning it the first time. User documentation will also suffer in the interim, as screenshots, navigation patterns and other training materials will have to be updated.

== Rough ideas ==

The following is a list of ideas gathered from discussions and resources both internal and external to HQ:

* A student should be able to quickly access his courses, grades, settings, profile from a static place in the UI. This would remove the need for them to expand nodes in both the 'Navigation' block and the 'Administration' block.
* The different nodes of the 'Administration' block could be displayed on a 'Preferences' page.
** e.g. the 'Course administration' items could be listed on a page, each node being a title and each of its elements listed underneath. By moving administration settings to a single page, we obviate the need for the 'Administration' block entirely.
* A teacher should be able to quickly access the 'Options' of a course through a static node, the same way a user can access anything associated to his account.
* Similarly for modules, an easy dropdown to access module preferences and more frequently used options could be created.
* Breadcrumb-based navigation to reduce and perhaps entirely remove the the need for the nested and cumbersome Navigation block.
** This could be problematic in regards to creating problems with accessing site pages, or pages which do not clearly have a hierarchical position. This could be addressed by providing 'in context' links. For instance, adding a new block entry should be available from the Blog page.
* Providing a sitemap page to counter the lack of 'Navigation' block when something is not easily accessible.
* Ability to 'Star' some pages to quickly access favourites.
* Develop a 'Smart search' to easily access the content in the current course, other courses, etc… and the admin settings for admins.
* Populating my/ page with more useful content for the user itself.
* A new profile page on which is displayed the 'public' information of the user. Their forum interactions, their blog, their reports, ...
* Providing an API to modules to implement their own navigation, thus not required to inject links in the navigation block like 'Chat' is doing or 'Quiz' used to do (Results report). This navigation would be displayed in a standard fashion across modules. (Tabs like in wiki?)
* When hovering a user's name, a menu could appear with a few details and links to their profile, etc... (like Jira does).

== Analysis of popular themes ==

Although most of those themes do not change anything about the navigation itself, a few have implemented a ''user menu''. Usually displayed at the top most right of the screen, it contains links to quickly access user specific pages. The most common links are:

* View profile
* Edit profile
* Logout

Less popular links are:

* Calendar
* My private files
* My home

== The solutions ==

To achieve our goal we have to remove the need for the administration and navigation blocks. This is a long process that needs to be broken down into sub-solutions. Some will need to be developed simultaneously to avoid half-baked temporary solutions. Those solutions can be split into two categories: 'User', and 'Course'.

User solutions:

* A user menu
* A user preferences page
* A new profile page
* Revisiting 'My home' page

Course solutions:

* Handling of course profiles
* A course 'Quick access' menu
* An administration page per module
* An administration page for the course
* Dedicated solution to access reports
* Alternative site and course navigation

=== User menu ===

The user menu is a dropdown containing links to pages specific to user. They are context independent and will always point to the same pages. The user menu can always be found at the same place in the user interface and will contain the following links:

* Dashboard (previously My home)
* My profile
* My grades
* Messages
* Preferences
* Logout

[[File:usermenu.png|frame|none|alt=A user menu.|A user menu.]]

'''Benefits'''

* Gives quick and intuitive access to the user specific pages
* Trimming down 'Navigation > My profile'
* Emphasises the page 'Dashboard'

=== User preferences page ===

A link to that page would be placed in the user menu. That page will contain most of what the user has control over on a site level. Their mailing preferences, changing their password, etc... but reorganised.

[[File:userpreferences.png|frame|none|alt=User preferences page.|User preferences page.]]

'''Benefits'''

* We can remove 'My profile settings' from the 'Administration' block.
* The settings are all reachable from one place.
* New pages will help the user understanding what settings they have control over.

Note: Sam has done a lot of work on a user preference page as a prototype using a new API for user preferences. This needs to be reviewed against this specification and should probably be used as a great starting point. https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46648

=== A new profile page ===

By adding new content to the profile page, we can trim a bit more the navigation block. The profile page is supposed to contain anything you could find about a user, and there will be links to their blog, forum interactions, notes, to send them a message, etc...

We will keep the distinction between the full profile and the course profiles, at this stage we only improve the site profile because the course profiles need more thoughts and are tied to the course solutions.

'''Benefits'''

* Trimming down 'Navigation > My profile'
* Answering concerns of the 'User preferences page'
* Bonus: the profile page has a reason to be visited

For developers wishing to add elements to the profile page please visit [[My_profile_API|My profile API]]

=== Revisiting 'My home' page ===

The My/ page is underused and does not contain enough valuable information for the users to visit it. We will update it to include more user-specific content. It will contain:

* My courses
* My private files
* The calendar and upcoming events
* My latest badges

[[File:myhome.png|frame|none|alt=The new dashboard.|The new dashboard.]]

The my home page name is a bit confusing, especially in the breadcrumb, where we currently have home > my home > course. We are proposing a change to the naming of this page to 'Dashboard'.

'''Benefits'''

* Trimming down 'Navigation > My profile', at this point it should be empty
* Making the my/ page more interesting and valuable

=== Handling of course profiles ===

We need to remove the confusion between site and course profiles, only a little more information should be available when viewing a 'Course profile', but we do not need an entirely different profile for that purpose. The course specific information will be accessible from the user profile, but be in the context of the site profile. We probably need a clear section on the "Site profile" for course specific information, with a selector to choose from the courses the user is enrolled in.

A huge select list of courses is likely not a good enough "user experience" for this course selector. We should create a reusable component for an auto-complete style select list that can handle thousands of items (With full aria support).

'''Benefits'''

* No more course profile pages

=== A course 'Quick access' menu ===

In order to remove the need for the nodes 'Participants' and 'Badges' from the 'Course' entry in the 'Navigation block', and the 'Grades' entry in the 'Course administration' node (for students), we will implement a new 'Quick access' menu for the course. This menu will be accessible on any page within a course, or module.

This menu will only contain links to the 3 entries mentioned above. If later on we add more links to that list, the additional (and less important) entries will be displayed in a dropdown, or a in a 'More' page.

A new grades page will be created for students to access their course grades.

It is important to keep the visible elements of this menu to a minimum. Not more than 3 elements should be displayed at a time. An exception can be made for users with more privileges who will see a 'Settings' (or 'Administration') link, and perhaps a 'Reports' one when we will work on them (see the following the other solutions below).

To unenrol yourself from a course, you would not look into the 'Course administration' node, you would rather find a link on 'My home' page next to the list of courses to unenrol yourself from them.

[[File:coursemenu.png|frame|none|alt=An example of a course quick-access menu.|An example of a course quick-access menu.]]

'''Benefits'''

* Trimming the navigation block
* Removing the 'Course administration' node for students
* Dedicated grades page for the students
* Quick access to the most important pages of a course

=== An administration page per module ===

The same way we would have a 'Preferences' page for the user, the administration page for the module would list everything that was originally in the 'Module administration' node, but reorganised to be more intuitive. A link to that page would be placed somewhere in the general UI.

Modules currently using the 'Adminstration' block to inject new pages into their module should be updated to provide a module navigation instead. It could be a list of links in the module page, or a module navigation such as tabs, this is probably tied to the solution 'Alternative site and course navigation'.

'''Benefits'''

* Intuitive access to all the module administration pages
* Self-contained and self-explanatory
* Removes the need for the 'Module administration' node

'''Concerns'''

* Potentially more clicks-to-destination

=== An administration page for the course ===

The same way we would have a 'Preferences' page for the user, the administration page for the course would list everything that was originally in the 'Course administration' node, but reorganised to be more intuitive. A link to that page will be added to the course 'Quick access' menu.

'''Benefits'''

* Intuitive access to all the course administration pages
* Self-contained and self-explanatory
* No more 'Course administration' node

'''Concerns'''

* Potentially more clicks-to-destination
* Reports would be accessible from that page until 'Dedicated solution to access reports' is implemented

=== Dedicated solution to access reports ===

Reports are the black sheep of the navigation, nobody agrees on where they should be and they are moved around every so often. Perhaps nobody agrees because they do not belong either in the navigation or the administration block.

Currently they are accessed from the 'Administration' block, and as we are moving the content of the block to administration pages, that is where they will end up. This is surely not better (perhaps even worse) than where they were before, so why not thinking once and for all where they should be.

<pre>/!\ Solution needed!

Idea: We could add a 'Report' menu to the course 'Quick access' menu</pre>

'''Goals'''

* Standardised way to access reports
* A navigation that does not jump somewhere else when viewing a report

=== Alternative site and course navigation ===

Now that everything has been sorted out, we should now be able to remove the navigation block - but first we'll need to sort out how to navigate at both the site and course levels.

'''Site level'''
It is envisaged that the frontpage would just be an entry point, with the navigation node 'Site pages' displayed in a block specific to those site pages. Upon leaving the context of the 'Site', you will be in a course; most users will not go back to the front page, except to find some information specific to their institution. To navigate between their courses, teachers and students could refer to their my/ page.

Alternatively, pages like 'Participants', 'Badges' or 'Tags' could be accessed from their context, for instance in a 'Online users' block which would link to 'All participants'. The same applies for 'Calendar', but is already the case because of its block.

'''Course level'''
The site-level concept should disappear as soon as you get in a course; the student or teacher would then focus 100% on the course they are browsing rather than being distracted by site elements. This behavior is currently exhibited by the base and standard themes in 2.6 and before.

The course format will become responsible for most of the navigation in the course, allowing course formats to:

* Inject block(s) to navigate between sections
* Inject block(s) to navigate between modules
* Inject block(s) that does/do both of the above (very similar to the course node in the navigation block)
* Inject links 'Go to next activity', 'Go back to course', ... into module views.

The course format will also have control over the course 'Quick access' menu, in which it could inject/remove items if they wanted to.

The node 'Switch role' will be removed from the administration block, necessitating a 'Switch role' block to be added to the course to unlock that functionality. This block would only be displayed to users having the capabilities to switch role.

'''Future of the Administration block'''

At this point, the administration block will not be displayed to any user, except those users possessing elevated privileges. Administrators, managers or course creators will still have access to the administration block but it will only contain the 'Site administration' node.

== Implementation details ==

=== User context ===

All the pages in a user context will have their own layout wherein the header includes the name of the user in a standardised way, along with some information and a link to message them, and their preferences if the logged in user has the capabilities to edit them. A renderer will be responsible for creating the header, and will use the user ID found from the context defined on that page.

The navigation within the context pages will be:

; For your own context
: Home > Your Name > Page you are on. Clicking on 'Your Name' will lead you to 'My home'.

[[File:userheader.png|frame|none|alt=The header when viewing your context.|The header when your context.]]

; For other users' context
: Home > Users > User Name > Page you are on. Clicking on 'User Name' will lead you to their profile.

[[File:userheader2.png|frame|none|alt=The header when viewing someone else's context.|The header when viewing someone else's context.]]

==== Rules ====

The user header contains very simplistic information about the user, and a few links to very common actions in regard to other users. For instance it can implement a link to send a message to the user, because you might want to be able to do that regardless of what user context page you are visiting. But, 'Edit profile' should not be in it, because it is only relevant to the profile. It is very important to keep the number of available actions to a minimum, because having too many options would defeat the purpose of the simplicity and efficiency it is trying to achieve.

=== A user menu ===

The new user menu would be a new renderer, called from the layout files as it was the case for the login info renderer. The content of the user menu is fixed and not configurable, however it is possible to override the renderer from a theme to change its layout and content.

==== Design ====

Placed on the top right of the site, the name of the user is displayed next to a user icon. The dropdown is displayed when the user clicks the icon or the name. On smaller screens only a user icon is displayed, and expands to reveal its content. When expanded the name of the user logged in is displayed.

When the user is not logged in or when the user is logged in as a guest, a login link is displayed, regardless of the screen size.

==== My grades ====

The 'My grades' page will display the overall grades of the student in all their visible courses. The ordering can be changed, but the default would be alphabetical.

To display these grades, the overview report should be extended to support displaying grades from all enrolled courses at once. The performance approach of this needs to be checked with a large number of courses and some caching may be required.

==== Login as ====

When logged in as someone else, the 'Logout' entry becomes 'Return to Admin User'.

==== Switch role ====

When the user role is switched, the 'Logout' entry becomes 'Return to my normal role'. And the name of the user is appended with the role they switch to, e.g. 'Admin User (teacher)'.

==== Trimming navigation ====

At this stage we could trim the navigation block, but we decide not to remove anything just yet as it would create more confusion: some nodes would accessible from the user menu, and others from the navigation block.

==== Rules ====

For it to be used, the user menu needs to be as short as possible and not being cluttered with additional links. It should contain what has been decided upon above, and not be changed - as users will acclimatise to it, adding and removing nodes should not be looked upon lightly. In any case, it should not contain more than 6 links, and should always contain:

* My home
* My profile
* Preferences
* Logout

These are very important to the user as they target user context-specific pages and nothing related to the site structure or the course. A link to 'My courses' would be redundant as this information should be covered in the 'My home' page.

=== A user preferences page ===

The preferences page is a list of links to sub-preferences page. The page will be generated from the navigation node 'My profile settings', though we will have to re-organise them so that each link belongs to a parent node. A link to the preferences page is added to the user menu.

==== Re-organisation ====

* User account
** Edit profile
** Account settings
** Change password
** Security keys
** Messaging

* Blogs
** Preferences
** External blogs
** Register an external blog

* Badges
** Manage my badges
** Preferences
** Backpack settings

The preferences page displays headings (the setting nodes) under which the links to the sub-pages will be displayed.

[[File:userpreferences.png|frame|none|alt=User preferences page.|User preferences page.]]

The nodes 'Roles' and 'Activity reports' will not be part of this page, because they are context based: they point to the course or site context depending on the page we are on. They will remain in the navigation block, but only when the user has the capability to view them. When the only node in the 'My profile settings' node is 'Preferences', then 'My profile settings' is not displayed. Here is an example when you have the capability to view the reports and roles.

[[File:navblockpref.png|frame|none|alt=My profile settings node with extended capability.|My profile settings node with extended capability.]]

==== Naming ====

The 'My profile settings' node becomes the name of the user: 'Frédéric Massart'. The 'Profile settings for Jetha Chan' becomes 'Jetha Chan'.

==== Breadcrumb ====

Each of the sub-pages should be checked to ensure that they are in the right hierarchy, the breadcrumb always looks like '(User context nav) > Preferences > Preference heading > Page I am on'.

==== Another user's preferences ====

The node 'Profile settings for User B' can be used to edit someone's settings. The content is similar to 'My profile settings', except that the node will always be displayed regardless of the presence of 'Roles' or 'Activity reports'. Currently there is no other way for a user with elevated privileges to access someone's preferences, but sooner or later the preferences will be accessible from their profiles.

[[File:navblocksomeonelse.png|frame|none|alt=Profile settings for X with extended capability.|Profile settings for X node with extended capability.]]

==== Repositories ====

At present, repositories are configurable from the Navigation block - this is a good opportunity to move them to the 'Preferences' page.

==== Rules ====

Every link in this page should belong to a section, the sections are only headers that help the users finding what they are looking for. A plugin that adds user preferences related to its features should define a new heading and add its links to that heading. The heading is never clickable.

=== A new profile page ===

For now we will only be focussing on the site profile of the user. Later on, we will be solving the problems linked to the course context, for instances the links to 'Blog' or 'Forum interactions' automatically filtered to only display the blog posts in the course.

==== Content ====

The contact details will be displayed in such a way that they do not look like a list any more. For instance, everyone knows what an email address is, there is no need to prefix it with 'Email address:'.

The badges will be displayed on the profile too.

==== Links ====

* Edit profile (If this is your profile)
* Blog
* Forum interactions
* Notes (If you have the capability to)
* Preferences (If you have the capability to and are viewing someone's profile)
* Send a message
* Login as (If you have the capability to)

==== Navigation block ====

We can start trimming the node 'My profile' a bit, but some nodes will remain until we sort out the 'My' page. When doing so, it is important to make sure that the nodes 'Home > Some course > Participants > User B' still contain everything it does right now, because those links point to course-based pages, and would not be accessible otherwise.

==== Rules ====

The profile page contains everything about the user that is public. In other words, a content specific to the user should not be displayed on the profile at all, because it would never be accessible to another user, e.g. 'Private files'.

There are exceptions to this rule, badges for example. As a setting allows you to define whether or not your badges are on your profile, you might not be able to see them there, so they should be available on your dashboard.

For content controlled by permissions (and not preferences), they should remain on the profile. Take 'Blog' as an example, an administrator can prevent blog entries from another user to be accessed depending on your role. As the user does not have any information about the roles of the other users, the blog link is displayed on the profile, but other users will not see it. Having a blog block on the 'My home' page would not be useful because it simply duplicates the access points, for no apparent reason to the user.

=== Revisiting 'My home' page ===

We need to add more default blocks to the existing page, the different available blocks will be:

* My courses (already there)
* My private files (already there)
* The calendar
* Upcoming events
* My latest badges

We need to add a link to 'My latest badges' to the page listing all the badges.

==== Navigation block ====

We can now remove 'My profile' (or now called 'Jetha Chan') from the navigation block entirely. But it has to still be accessible under the node of a user in a course tree.

The node 'My courses' is also removed, users should be used to using their dashboard to access their courses.

Note: Removing nodes from the navigation block needs to be done delicately, as currently the navigation block is scanned to find the "current page" and also used to generate the breadcrumbs. The nodes will probably still need to exist in the navigation tree structure, but be hidden from the navigation block.

==== Rules ====

The 'My home' page contains everything about a user that is private and not accessible to other users. For instance, your calendar events or your private files. The list of courses you are enrolled in are an exception, they could be displayed on the user profile, but because they are so important and need to be layed out in useful fashion, they will be part of the 'My home' page.

This page does not need to link to pages which are already accessible from the 'User menu', for instance the profile.

=== Course context ===

<pre>Pending</pre>

* Handling of course profiles
* An administration page per module
* An administration page for the course
* Accessing course grades for students
* Dedicated solution to access reports
* Alternative site and course navigation
** Checking for inconsistencies in the breadcrumb jumping from one place to another.

== Roadmap ==

=== User context ===

# The user menu
# Implementing the user 'header' for user context pages
# The preferences page
# The new profile page
# Revisiting 'My home'

=== Course context ===

<pre>To be defined.</pre>

== Related links ==

* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16BJsINun13StUFOQaejj3Gawz9jk22ir_r49f3MbInM/edit#heading=h.fuvsbkikzj88 Navigation experiment]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AXJw8uX6MczA5VC3phkVVv1ee5eZ2nluIiPC2ecgHLE/edit#heading=h.k3lh9alzq3iy Navigation prototyping 2.7]
* MDL-34838: Navigation inconsistencies
* [http://demo2k12.moodlerooms.com Minimal by Moodlerooms]
**I believe Minimal may now be known as Snap and is available Open Source on GIT https://github.com/moodlerooms/moodle-theme_snap
* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=226791 Users’ personalised profiles]

Atto

2014-02-06T22:32:23Z

Derekcx:

{{Moodle 2.7}}

Atto is a javascript text editor built specifically for Moodle. Atto is the default text editor in Moodle from 2.7 onwards.

Atto is implemented as a standard Moodle text editor plugin ([[Editors]]). Most of the code is written in javascript as a standard Moodle YUI module.

Follow the development of ATTO here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43996

==What does Atto mean?==

==Where can I get Atto?==

GIT - and you can check here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=editor_atto

==Atto Plugins==

All of the buttons/menus in Atto are implemented as true Moodle subplugins. This means that the subplugins can do anything a subplugin can do including, lang strings, db tables, yui modules.

There are a couple of extra functions/structure required for an Atto subplugin which are required in order to load a plugin on the toolbar.

==Structure of an Atto Plugin==

/lib.php
Optional. Only required if your plugin needs to implement one of the component callbacks listed below.

/settings.php
Optional. Only required if your plugin wants to support custom admin settings. See: [[Admin_settings#Individual_settings]] for more info on settings.

/version.php
Required. Moodle plugin version. See:[[version.php]] for more info on version files.

/lang/en/atto_pluginname.php
Required. Language file. This file is required and must at least define the language string 'pluginname'.

/yui/src/button/
Required. The plugin must implement a YUI module that will be included by the editor when the page loads. That YUI module must be named 'button' and must insert itself a class into the M.<plugin name> namespace, with an init function that will be called to initialise the editor.
See: [[YUI/Modules]] for more information about YUI modules.

==Atto subplugin Php API==

Atto sub plugins can contain a lib.php file with 2 callbacks that will be looked for when the plugin is loaded.

The first is "XXX_strings_for_js" (example taken from atto_table plugin):

<pre>
/**
* Initialise the js strings required for this module.
*/
function atto_table_strings_for_js() {
global $PAGE;

$PAGE->requires->strings_for_js(array('createtable',
'accessibilityhint',
'headers',
'caption',
'columns',
'rows',
'numberofcolumns',
'numberofrows',
'both',
'edittable',
'addcolumnafter',
'addrowafter',
'movecolumnright',
'movecolumnleft',
'moverowdown',
'moverowup',
'deleterow',
'deletecolumn'),
'atto_table');
}

</pre>

The purpose of this callback is to allow the plugin to initialise the strings that it will use in it's user interface. Note: that the pluginname string for each plugin is automatically loaded, and if this is the only string your plugin requires, then it is not necessary to implement this callback in your plugin. See: [[JavaScript_guidelines#Getting_Moodle_to_load_your_JavaScript_files]] for more information on strings_for_js.

The second php callback that can be implemented in lib.php is: "XXX_params_for_js" (fictional example, not used in core):

<pre>
/**
* Return the js params required for this module.
* @return array of additional params to pass to javascript init function for this module.
*/
function atto_gambling_params_for_js() {
return array('bestodds' => '34 to 1', 'worstodds' => '5 to 1');
}

</pre>

==Atto subplugin Javascript API==
Atto subplugins must implement a yui module named "moodle-atto_pluginname-button". This module will be automatically loaded when Atto is displayed on a page (and the subplugin is listed in the toolbar configuration). This plugin should register a class at the M.atto_pluginname namespace and this class should have an init function, which will be called to add the button to the toolbar.

The init function will accept a params array containing, the dom id of the textarea element (params.elementid), the toolbar group (params.group), and any additional params supplied by the "atto_pluginname_params_for_js" callback.

The atto subplugin can and should make use of the functions in the M.editor_atto class to perform common operations like, adding a toolbar button, adding a toolbar menu, and manipulating the contenteditable region.

A list of useful functions available in M.editor_atto follows (But the best place to check this is in the source file itself):

<pre>
/**
* Determine if the specified toolbar button/menu is enabled.
* @param string elementid, the element id of this editor.
* @param string plugin, the plugin that created the button/menu.
*/
M.editor_atto.is_enabled(elementid, plugin);

/**
* Disable all buttons and menus in the toolbar.
* @param string elementid, the element id of this editor.
*/
M.editor_atto.disable_all_widgets(elementid);

/**
* Enable a single widget in the toolbar.
* @param string elementid, the element id of this editor.
* @param string plugin, the name of the plugin that created the widget.
*/
M.editor_atto.enable_widget(elementid, plugin);

/**
* Enable all buttons and menus in the toolbar.
* @param string elementid, the element id of this editor.
*/
M.editor_atto.enable_all_widgets(elementid);

/**
* Add a content update handler to be called whenever the content is updated.
* This is used to add inline editing controls to the content that are cleaned on submission.
*
* @param string elementid - the id of the textarea we created this editor from.
* @handler function callback - The function to do the cleaning.
* @param object context - the context to set for the callback.
* @handler function handler - A function to call when the button is clicked.
*/
M.editor_atto.add_text_updated_handler(elementid, callback);

/**
* Add a button to the toolbar belonging to the editor for element with id "elementid".
* @param string elementid - the id of the textarea we created this editor from.
* @param string plugin - the plugin defining the button
* @param string icon - the html used for the content of the button
* @param string groupname - the group the button should be appended to.
* @param array entries - List of menu entries with the string (entry.text) and the handlers (entry.handler).
*/
M.editor_atto.add_toolbar_menu(elementid, plugin, iconurl, groupname, entries);

/**
* Add a button to the toolbar belonging to the editor for element with id "elementid".
* @param string elementid - the id of the textarea we created this editor from.
* @param string plugin - the plugin defining the button.
* @param string icon - the url to the image for the icon
* @param string groupname - the group the button should be appended to.
* @handler function handler- A function to call when the button is clicked.
*/
M.editor_atto.add_toolbar_button(elementid, plugin, iconurl, groupname, handler);

/**
* Work out if the cursor is in the editable area for this editor instance.
* @param string elementid of this editor
* @return bool
*/
M.editor_atto.is_active(elementid);

/**
* Focus on the editable area for this editor.
* @param string elementid of this editor
*/
M.editor_atto.focus(elementid);

/**
* The text in the contenteditable region has been updated,
* clean and copy the buffer to the text area.
* @param string elementid - the id of the textarea we created this editor from.
*/
M.editor_atto.text_updated(elementid);

/**
* Show the filepicker.
* @param string elementid for this editor instance.
* @param string type The media type for the file picker
* @param function callback
*/
M.editor_atto.show_filepicker(elementid, type, callback);

/**
* Create a cross browser selection object that represents a yui node.
* @param Node yui node for the selection
* @return range (browser dependent)
*/
M.editor_atto.get_selection_from_node(node);

/**
* Get the selection object that can be passed back to set_selection.
* @return range (browser dependent)
*/
M.editor_atto.get_selection();

/**
* Check that a YUI node it at least partly contained by the selection.
* @param Range selection
* @param Y.Node node
* @return boolean
*/
M.editor_atto.selection_contains_node(node);

/**
* Get the dom node representing the common anscestor of the selection nodes.
* @return DOMNode
*/
M.editor_atto.get_selection_parent_node();

/**
* Get the list of child nodes of the selection.
* @return DOMNode[]
*/
M.editor_atto.get_selection_text();

/**
* Set the current selection. Used to restore a selection.
*/
M.editor_atto.set_selection(selection);

</pre>

Atto also allows "control" menus within the contenteditable text. These are links which open a context menu, but are removed from the text before it is saved. An example of this is the table editing controls added by the table plugin. In order for this to work, there are some conventions that should be followed. Firstly - any content with a class of "atto_control" will be removed from the source when it is saved. Second, there is a subclass of M.core.dialogue available to produce a context menu (see atto/yui/src/editor/js/controlmenu.js).

== See Also ==

Atto makes use of contenteditable regions, and the rich text editing API supported by modern browsers. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Rich-Text_Editing_in_Mozilla for further reading.

For opening dialogues it is recommended to use M.core.dialogue : https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/master/lib/yui/src/notification/js/dialogue.js

Tracker introduction

2013-12-10T21:01:33Z

Derekcx:

The [http://tracker.moodle.org/ Moodle Tracker] is our database for recording and managing all Moodle development issues - bugs (problems with the software), improvements and feature requests.

==Creating a tracker account==

You don't need an account to browse the issues in the tracker, but to add a comment or creating an issue you do need an account.

This is different to your Moodle.org account. To create an account on the tracker, go to https://tracker.moodle.org/login.jsp.

==Searching for an issue==

Before creating a new issue, please try searching to check whether it has been reported previously.

# Enter a phrase, such as an error message in the 'Quick Search' box at the top right of the page.
# If the search returns lots of results, click the 'Updated' column heading so that the most recent issues are displayed first.
# To refine your search, click on 'Moodle' as the project in the left column, then click the 'Refresh search' link below. You can then select particular components or versions as appropriate.

To do anything more than browsing and searching in the tracker, you'll need to [http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/Signup%21default.jspa create a tracker account] and then login.

==Reporting an issue==

''First check whether the issue has already been reported by searching.''
* If you find an issue which appears to relate to your issue, feel free to add a comment providing further information.
* Otherwise, please report the issue by clicking the 'Create Issue' link at the top right of the page.

Language string problems can be corrected using [[:en:AMOS|AMOS]]. In non-English languages, the relevant language pack needs to be edited. For English string changes, edit the [[:en:AMOS#Suggesting_improvements_to_English_language_strings|en_fix]] language pack.

For new Moodle issues...
# Select 'Moodle' as the project and an appropriate issue type then click the 'Create' button.
# Complete the form, making sure you include ''FULL STEPS that developers should take to reproduce the problem, as well as information about WHAT YOU EXPECTED and WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS for you.'' It's a good idea to check whether you can reproduce the bug on http://demo.moodle.net and if so, you can write in the bug report 'Bug reproduced on demo.moodle.net'.
# Click the 'Create' button.

Reporting an issue in the Moodle tracker video:

<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCmOoGYldkA&feature=youtu.be</mediaplayer>

==Receiving email notification of issue updates==

To receive email notification of updates to any issue, you can add yourself as a watcher.

* Click the 'Watch' link on the right of the issue page.

Note: If you report an issue, you will automatically receive email notification of updates, so there is no need to add yourself as a watcher.

==Helping determine development priorities==

You can help determine Moodle development priorities by voting for issues that you'd most like to see fixed.

* Click the 'Vote' link on the right of the issue page.

==Linking issues==

If you come across two duplicate issues, or otherwise related issues, you can help by linking the more recent issue to the older issue.

# In the more recent issue, select 'Link' from the 'More Actions' dropdown menu.
# Select the reason for linking the issues, fill in the number of the older issue and a comment (optional) then click the 'Link' button.

Other reasons for linking include
* Linking to an issue which will help resolve another issue
* Linking to an issue which is blocked by another issue

==What makes a good tracker issue?==

When you create a tracker issue, you are effectively asking someone to change Moodle for you. The easier you can make it for that someone to understand your problem, the more likely it is they will be able to fix it. Here are some things that can help:
* Give step-by-step instructions, so someone else can follow along on their Moodle site and see exactly what you are talking about.
* If there is an error message (can you turn on [[:en:Debugging|debugging]]?) copy and paste the full text of the error message.
* Clearly separate fact from speculation in what you write.
* A picture can be worth a thousand words. Consider taking a screen-grab of the problem.
* One report one bug / feature request per issue.
* Remember to search to see if the issue you are reporting is already there. If it is, vote or comment instead.

If you would like to read more about this, the Mozilla [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines bug writing guidelines] are good.

Here are good examples of bug reports: MDL-5688, MDL-33532, MDL-34440, MDL-33514, MDL-34475 - notice how quickly all of these got fixed!

==What can I do if a problem remains, despite the tracker issue being closed as fixed?==

If you find that a bug is still affecting a stable version of Moodle, despite the tracker issue being closed as fixed, please do as follows:

# Create a new issue for the bug
# Go back to the closed issue and link it to the issue you've just created. This will generate an email notification to all watchers, so they know to watch, vote or comment on the new issue from then on.

==See also==

* [[Tracker guide]] for more detailed information on using the tracker
* [[Tracker for Third Party Add-ons]] for simple instructions on use of the tracker with contrib/third party add-ons

[[Category:Tracker]]

Provide print option for a Quiz

2013-12-10T05:29:12Z

Derekcx:

The main request for this functionality: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348

Tim has indicated he is not able to work on this.

#Tim has suggested a Print CSS solution https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348?focusedCommentId=42828&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-42828 and here, having Media Print in the existing CSS: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222565#p983677
#There are questions as to the purpose of the printout
##So students can write on the paper (eg if the computer crashes)
##Just the questions (for things like moderation purposes)
##EVERYTHING!! All the feedback, answers etc.
#Second option: a report plugin. see https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=219532#p985720

Comments anybody??

--[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 12:37, 10 December 2013 (WST)

Provide print option for a Quiz

2013-12-10T05:27:24Z

Derekcx:

The main request for this functionality: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348

Tim has indicated he is not able to work on this.

#Tim has suggested a Print CSS solution https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348?focusedCommentId=42828&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-42828
#There are questions as to the purpose of the printout
##So students can write on the paper (eg if the computer crashes)
##Just the questions (for things like moderation purposes)
##EVERYTHING!! All the feedback, answers etc.
#Second option: a report plugin. see https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=219532#p985720

Comments anybody??

--[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 12:37, 10 December 2013 (WST)

Provide print option for a Quiz

2013-12-10T04:37:39Z

Derekcx: Setting up a page for this

The main request for this functionality: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348

Tim has indicated he is not able to work on this.

#Tim has suggested a Print CSS solution https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-348?focusedCommentId=42828&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-42828
#There are questions as to the purpose of the printout
##So students can write on the paper (eg if the computer crashes)
##Just the questions (for things like moderation purposes)
##EVERYTHING!! All the feedback, answers etc.

Comments anybody??

--[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 12:37, 10 December 2013 (WST)

Developer notes

2013-12-10T04:28:03Z

Derekcx: Add new page

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|Developer documentation]] page.

==Core code==

*[[Other lang issues|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|Plan to improve ability to delegate administrator tasks to course category level]]
*[[Stealth mode and nested activities|Stealth mode and nested activities]]
*[[Enrolment_plugins_2.0|How enrolments should work in Moodle 2.0]]
*[[Redesigning the override roles page|Redesigning the override roles page]]

===Gradebook===

*[[Gradebook_improvements|Gradebook improvements]] - ideas from Petr.
*[[Tim's_Gradebook_thoughts|Tim's Gradebook thoughts]]

==Modules and other recognised plugin types==

===Lesson===

*[[Adding_question_types_to_lesson|Adding question types to lesson module]]
*[[New lesson navigation | New lesson navigation]]
*[[Adding blocks to lesson | Adding blocks to lesson]]

===Quiz & question types===

* [[File storage conversion Quiz and Questions|File storage conversion Quiz and Questions]] - notes for MDL-16094.
* [[How the quiz navigation should work in Moodle 2.0|How the quiz navigation should work in Moodle 2.0]] - MDL-20276.
* [[Moodle 2.0 question bank improvements|Moodle 2.0 question bank improvements]] - including question tagging and improved searchability.
* [[Question_Engine_2|Proposal to change the Moodle Question Engine]] This supersedes
** [[Plans for adaptive mode|Plans for adaptive mode]]
** [[Implementation of true negative marks in MC-type questions|Implementation of true negative marks in MC-type questions]]
* [[Calculated question development]]
* [[Numerical question units and intervals]]
* [[Future question bank/sharing/versioning requirements|Future question bank/sharing/versioning requirements]]
* [[States of a quiz attempt]]
* [[Optional checkbox "This is all my own work" before submitting a quiz]]
* [[The OU PMatch algorithm]]
* [[Provide print option for a Quiz]]

===Other activity modules===

*[[Forum development|Forum functional upgrade]]
*[[Wiki development|Wiki module development]]
*[[Schedule development|Proposed replacement for Scheduler]]

===Gradebook Plugins===

*[[External Database Plugin]]

===Other===

*[[Blogs and forums|Blogs, forums and the nature of discussion]]
*[[Conditional activities]]
*[[Improved Payment Plugin]]
*[[Moodle-specific customisations to the HTML editor]]
*[[Moodle Automatic Regression Test and Inspection Nit-picker]]
*[[ VSTU projects|Projects developed in Volgograd State Technical University]] becomes to many to simple list them on that page.

== Markup & Theming ==
* [[Moodle CSS System]], idea from forum discussion on [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=126009 Object Oriented CSS]

==Other==

*[[MoodleDocs development]]
*[[Usability]]
*[[Document Management API]]
*[[wikindx|Possible integration of WIKINDX with Moodle]]
*[[Snapshot - flat HTML export of complete course]]
*[[Offline Moodle | Development:Offline Moodle - A Moodle that runs on a mobile device with the internet]]
*[[A standard set of fixtures for unit tests?|A standard set of fixtures for unit tests?]]
*[[reportbuilder|Possible integration Totara Report Builder into Moodle]]
*[[openbadges|Open Badges]]
*[[Course Reset Proposal]]

==Archive: past proposals==

===Things that got implemented===

====Core code====

*[[Ajax user selector|Ajax user selector]]
*[[Roles]] - in Moodle 1.7
*[[Moodle forms library]] - in Moodle 1.8
**[[Martin form notes]]

====Quiz & question types====

*[[Quiz UI redesign | Quiz UI redesign]]
*[[Administration page for question types|Administration page for question types]]
*[[Plan_to_Improve_Flexibility_of_Question_Category_Sharing_and_Permissions|Plans for enhancing the question bank]] - in Moodle 1.9
*[[Email notification when a quiz is submitted|Email notification when a quiz is submitted]] - in Moodle 1.9
*[[Plans for enhancing import/export in questiontype plugins]] - in Moodle 1.9
*[[quiz_navigation | Quiz navigation]]
*[[Open_protocol_for_accessing_question_engines|Open protocol for accessing question engines]]
*[[Quiz report enhancements|Quiz report enhancements]]
*[[Flagging questions during a quiz attempt|Flagging questions during a quiz attempt]]

====Other====

*[[Quiz and quesions community testing day]]

Talk:Moodle 2.6 release notes

2013-11-12T09:28:14Z

Derekcx: /* Stable version */

== Stable version ==

Hi, I still don't see stable version on http://download.moodle.org/. Is there any problem? --[[User:Lukáš Mižoch|Lukáš Mižoch]] ([[User talk:Lukáš Mižoch|talk]]) 17:09, 12 November 2013 (WST)

There has been a delay. You will need to watch Twitter. HQ says there will be a delay. https://twitter.com/moodlehq --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 17:28, 12 November 2013 (WST)

Roadmap/Forum activity redevelopment

2012-08-19T09:26:07Z

Derekcx: Notes about ForumNG

#I'm interested in the ForumNG aspect to the Moodle v 2.4 development, and I've listed some some features/comments below, in no particular order, just to clear my mind a little.
#I just the other day noticed a comment on the Tracker item for ForumNG from Dan http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538 I was unsure if this ment "Evaluate to see if we implement" or "Start to Implement".
#I guess I think the OU's interests here are relevant. Need to try to avoid them having to work with a Moodleised version of NG that still needs them to hack it later to meet their needs.
#Please feel free to intersperse comments here with the usual name/date/time.
#We are in Moodle using the term discussion. I've kept this, I presume it is not up for debate (ie replacing it with the term thread). In many comments I've explicitly hypothesised functionality at both the forum and discussion level. I guess (at this point in time) I see both as needed.
##'''Scenario, topic choice''': you start a discussion, Please indicate your topic for Assignment one. A relevant question soon will be "Who has not posted in the discussion?" This is a the discussion level.
##'''Scenario, post a question''' you start several questions on the themes for an exam, and say Please make up one question each on any theme and post it in the forum. Here the question is "Who has not posted anywhere on the forum?" ie the forum level.
#I know the forum is a complex activity. The decision and option combinations are quite difficult. But in my opinion, it is worth the effort. I know someone willneed to sort a real developers spec sometime.
#'''Some relevant discussions:'''
##
##

I'll come back and list a few links to the relevant discussions later, maybe, unless if someone does it sooner. I know I have missed out a few significant aspects in these discussions, but I can't remember them at the moment. (One person's vital is another persons trivial) --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] 17:26, 19 August 2012 (WST)

----

'''POSSIBLE FEATURES FOR A MOODLISED FORUMNG IN VERSION 2.4'''

==Ability to list attatchments==
And have the attatchment styled a little more noticable than at present
==New forum type "Personal Channel==
Provides a forum for everyone in a course/group which is personal to just the student and the tutor(s).

'''Rationale''' Moodle has lacked a way to effectively manage long term dialogue with individual students. That's the basis behind
*The dialogue plugin
*Some functionality in the ForumNG (like the study plan I believe) (More detail could help here)

Messaging has no file attachments option, it's a clutzy option. There are other worse cludges (like setting up groups of one)
==Ability to store drafts==
==Social aspects==
Lets face it: Moodle is unlikely to really compete with the social tools like elgg, edmodo etc. But there are a few simple aspects that may help.
==='Me too' link===

==Administration aspects==
===Sticky posts===
===Freeze discussion===
Shut off to further replies.
===View all posts by Student X in forum/discussion===
Rationale:
===Export option===
More detail needed
===An option for a teacher to click a "Post to all" link===
ie an over-ride to individual settings, just for this one post.
==Reports==
*Show all non-posters in forum/discussion
*Corollary: message all non-posters
*See who has posted and how often in forum/discussion

Could be a report much like the participant's report:
Name | Last access | First post | Number of posts

*Statistics for forum/discussion

==Grading/record keeping inprovements==
At present grading is difficult. If you really do need to grade for any reason . . .

==Technical==
===Reply: can see whole thread===
==User interface==
===Better location of 'post to forum' button===
With the new drag and drop box, there is even more scrolling needed. Suggest several locations for the 'Post to Forum' button.
*Above Editor
*Below Editor
*At bottom of page
Ajax used to enable post without loosing the view of the whole thread.

==Kite flying, and more debatable than other stuff==
===A 'postlet link'===
Not a full blown reply, but a twitter length comment option that is not e-mailed out as per usual. This could cause real problems. :-)

Course format ideas

2012-08-16T04:01:59Z

Derekcx: Just a few thoughts

This is a page set up in response to comments in this forum post: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208789#p910726 It may take a number of iterations to get to where was want.

Former discussions:
#Possibility of getting Folderview into Moodle: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p772469
#Martin's post, prior to 2.3: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200470#p874588
#Marty's 2008 post: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102680
#Course formats at present: a summary from Moodle News http://www.moodlenews.com/course-formats/

There are several factors.
#Legacy issues
#Getting a nice solution into the core. As Mary says, we don't all have the benefit of an IT department, and hosted solutions cost a lot to customise.
#Creating flexibility fo plugin writers.
#??

----

==Navigation Issues==
1.9 to version 2 brought the navigation menu. In some respects this attempts to do everything. We have site navigation, course navigation and section navigation in one block. Almost an alternative scroll of death.

2.2 to 2.3 brought us a course level choice of a new layout option. Single sections and All sections on one page. Somehow the drop down list of sections was removed, whether this is a feature or an ommission is unclear. As an immediate fix in 2.3.x I'd like to see it back. Much like in this post. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208789#p910618

==Contributed Formats==
#Folder view
#Flexpage (Now back on the scene for 2.2 but not 2.3, see http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208789#p911219)
#Collapsed topics
See: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Talk:Paged_course_formats

==General principles==
ie what are the ways we should be thinking about this?
===Good section to section navigation===
Consistently available ie there, in general, without having to scroll (as is the case regularly with inside course navigation in the Nav menu).

One option: a menu at the top left.
*examples: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p873291
http://moodle.org/pluginfile.php/554/mod_forum/post/873291/Pic1.png
*a plugin: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=169107
*Itamars version: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208789#p910618 and his comments: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200470#p874588 (from an old post)
http://moodle.org/pluginfile.php/155/mod_forum/post/910639/sections-vav.png
*Another version from Itamar http://moodle.org/pluginfile.php/155/mod_forum/post/910618/itamarsectionformat.png

IMO, this simple section<>section navigation as and option in core is essential. It takes care of the basic/simple course course, makes navigation in your face and intuitive. I don't like personally having too much in this. I like it really clean. Comments? --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] 12:01, 16 August 2012 (WST)

===Ability to tag the current section as current===
This is needed especially for the courses done on a week by week basis. You may have a navigation scrolling, but who cares in this case? Highlight this week, with a previous and next and I think it works OK. Then there is the problem of too much content for one week. The subpage module maybe of use here? --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] 12:01, 16 August 2012 (WST)

===No scrolling to see the section to section navigation===
ie the Navigation menu option isn't enough.

Comments: "Regarding the SoD in the Navigation block, I think a very easy improvement to the in-course navigation would be to simply break out that navigation from the My Courses tree into its own tree. That way users can easily navigate within the course as well as between courses, but aren't hit with too much information with large course lists." from Kris Stokking http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208789#p911219

IMO there are too many levels in the Navigation Menu: Site, (Course), Sectionns, Section content. I'd like to see Course > Sections only. I don't mind scrolling within a well defined, sell structured section. --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] 12:01, 16 August 2012 (WST)

==Other approaches==

===Comments on Grid idea===

===Comments on Collapsed sections approadh===

===Horizontal, in section navigation===
Basically, my suggestion. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208789#p910650 --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] 12:01, 16 August 2012 (WST)
http://moodle.org/pluginfile.php/155/mod_forum/post/910650/Ideal%20Navigation.jpg

===What else?===

Reference

2012-06-21T08:21:09Z

Derekcx:

==This is the start of a few pages of largely version independent reference==

In the spirit of wiki and in response to the post here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=205117

Go for it Guillermo.

Maybe start here, and later on add a category:Reference and see what happens. I've set a watch on, and I may do a page on JSON errors.

Reference

2012-06-21T08:08:53Z

Derekcx: Created page with "==This is the start of a few pages of largely version independent references== In the spirit os wiki and in response to the post here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=..."

==This is the start of a few pages of largely version independent references==

In the spirit os wiki and in response to the post here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=205117

Go for it Guillermo.

Maybe start here, and later on add a category Reference and see what happens.

Developer documentation

2012-06-21T08:05:43Z

Derekcx:

<p class="note">'''Note:''' The Dev docs are currently being split from the User docs. During this time you will see quite a few red links.</p>

[[image:moodle-development-logo.jpg|right|400px]]

This Developer section of Moodle Docs is aimed at developers who contribute to the Moodle code, plugins, themes, and so on.

If you manage a Moodle site, or if you teach using Moodle, try the [[:en:Main_page|User docs]].

==How Moodle development works==

The [[Overview|overview of the Moodle development process]] explains how Moodle development occurs and how people become Moodle developers. Current plans are listed on the [[Roadmap]].

You can also enrol in one of the [http://dev.moodle.org Moodle Developer Courses].

==Guidelines==

The following guidelines are crucial reading for anyone wanting to contribute to the Moodle code base:
*[[Coding|Coding guidelines]] have to be followed by all Moodle developers
*[[Moodle architecture]] gives an overview of how the Moodle code works
*[[Process]] explains how changes are incorporated into Moodle
*[[Tracker guide]] explains the Moodle Tracker for keeping track of bugs, issues, feature requests etc
*[[Working with the Community|Working with the Community]] explains how to engage with the dev community and discuss changes
*[[Unit tests|Unit tests]] explains how to run the unit tests, and how to write new test cases.
*[[Profiling PHP|Profiling PHP]] how to analyse your code to find out why it is slow.
*[[Fast portable SQL]] shows SQL techniques that are fast, efficient, and known to work on all supported DBs.
*[[Development hints and tips]] a (developing) list of general wisdom to help with your Moodle projects.

===Core components ===

*[[XMLDB_Documentation|Database abstraction layer]]
*[[Roles|Roles and Capabilities system]] for controlling who can do what
*[[lib/formslib.php|Forms library]] for creating accessible and secure HTML forms that let users edit things
*[[Using_the_file_API|File API]] for managing files stored by Moodle
*[[Database schema introduction|The database schema]]
*[[What happens when you require config.php|What happens when you require config.php]]
*[[lib/moodlelib.php|lib/moodlelib.php]]
*[[lib/weblib.php|lib/weblib.php]] for outputting stuff

==Documentation for core components==

This section is for documentation of specific components of the existing core Moodle code. Discussion of components that are under discussion or in development can be found in the [[Developer notes|developer notes]] or on the [[Roadmap|roadmap]].

The documents below give a general overview. For detailed function-by-function documentation, see the [http://phpdocs.moodle.org/ phpDocumentor] documentation that is automatically generated from the comments in the code.

And don't forget that the most up-to-date and detailed description of how the code works is the code itself, and you can [http://xref.moodle.org/nav.html?index.html browse the code online] using [[PHPXref|PHPXref]].

===Reference for core components===

This section is for those who may not be developers in the traditional sense, but often work under the hood with Moodle. Maybe they are sometimes know and amateurs or code hackers.

[[Reference|Reference]]

===Modules included in the standard distribution===

*[[Lesson Specification|Lesson Specification]]
*[[Quiz|Quiz module]]
*[[SCORM schema|SCORM module 1.5 schema]]

==How you can contribute==

===Make a new plugin===

The M in Moodle stands for modular, and the easiest, most maintainable way to add new functionality to Moodle is by using one of the many plugin APIs. There are many types of plugin you can write:
*[[Modules|Activity modules]], see also [[NEWMODULE Documentation]] (work in progress)
**and [[Subplugins|Sub-Plugins]] (2.0 Onwards)
*[[Admin reports|Admin reports]]
*[[Assignment types|Assignment types]]
*[[Authentication plugins|Authentication plugins]]
*[[Blocks|Blocks]]
*Content editors (2.0 onwards)
*[[Course Format|Course Formats]]
*[[Course Report Plugins|Course reports]]
*Course importers (2.0 onwards)
*[[Database fields|Database fields]]
*[[:en:Database presets|Database presets]]
*[[Enrolment plugins|Enrolment plugins]]
*[[Filters|Filters]]
*[[Gradebook_Report_Tutorial|Gradebook report]]
*[[Gradebook export|Gradebook export]]
*[[Gradebook import|Gradebook import]]
*Message senders (2.0 onwards)
*Mnet services
*Plagiarism detection plugins (2.0 onwards)
*[[Writing_a_Portfolio_Plugin|Portfolio plugins]] (2.0 onwards)
*[[Question_type_plugin_how_to|Question types]]
*[[Question import/export formats|Question import/export formats]]
*[[How to write a quiz report plugin|Quiz reports]]
*[[Repository plugins|Repository plugins]] (2.0 onwards)
*[[Resource types|Resource types]]
*[[Search engine adapters|Search engine adapters]]
*Themes which are different in [[Themes_2.0|Moodle 2.0]], and [[Theme_basics|earlier versions]].
*User profile fields
*[[Web services (2.0 onwards)|Web services (2.0 onwards)]]
*Workshop allocators (2.0 onwards)
*Workshop forms (2.0 onwards)
*Workshop evaluators (2.0 onwards)

General information that applies to all types of plugins
*[[Places to search for lang strings|Where to put language strings for your plugin]]
*[[Installing and upgrading plugin database tables|Defining the database tables for your plugin]]

Please see the [[Guidelines for contributed code|Guidelines for contributed code]] for an overview of how to contribute to the Moodle code.

Sometimes it is not possible to write a proper plugin for what you want to do, in which case you may have to resort to using the [[Local_customisation|local customisations]] hook.

===Change core code===

===Ways to contribute that do not involve PHP programming===

*[[Theme development|Create Moodle themes]]
*[[:en:Translation|Translate Moodle into other languages]]
*[[:en:MoodleDocs:Guidelines for contributors|Help document Moodle]]
*[[Tests|Join the testing effort]], which involves [[Tracker|participating in the bug tracker]]

==Plans for the future==

Ideas for and details of planned future features of Moodle are initially discussed on the forums in the [http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5 Using Moodle] course at moodle.org. That developer discussions are intermixed with user discussions in the same forums may seem strange at first but is one of the reasons for the success of Moodle. It is important that both end-users and developers discuss the future features together.

Once ideas begin to crystallize on the forums they can be summarized in this wiki, either as part of the [[Roadmap|roadmap]] or in the form of [[Developer notes|developer notes]]. These pages then form the basis for further discussion in the forums.

*[[Roadmap]]
*[[Developer notes|Developer notes]]
*[[Student projects]]
*[[Developer meetings]]

== Resources ==

*[[Developer FAQ]] - frequently asked questions, especially useful for newcomers to Moodle
*[[Finding_your_way_into_the_Moodle_code|Finding your way into the Moodle code]] - also aimed at newcomers
*[http://tracker.moodle.org/ Moodle tracker] - bug reports, feature requests and other tracked issues
**[[Firefox tracker search]] - How to setup a firefox quicksearch to easily navigate to moodle bugs
**[[Firefox tracker search#Firefox Search Plugins|Firefox Search Plugins]] - Find tracked issues even more easily
*[[Unmerged files]] - changes on the stable branch in CVS that have not been merged to [[HEAD]]
*Browse the code online:
**[http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/ the code with a complete change history from CVS]
**[http://xref.moodle.org/index.html the code, with links generated by PHPXref]
*[http://phpdocs.moodle.org/ Moodle PHP doc reference] - compiled nightly from the comment attached to each class and function in the code.
*[[Database Schema|Database Schema]] - for recent releases
*[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5#4 Development news and discussion] section of Using Moodle course
**especially the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=55 General developer forum]
**[[:en:Filters used on the Moodle.org forums|cool tricks you can use in the moodle.org forums]]

== Tools ==
Some tools people use when working on Moodle code:

=== IDEs ===

* [[Setting_up_Netbeans|Setting up NetBeans for Moodle development]] - NetBeans for PHP is a great out-of-the-box editor.
* [[Setting_up_Eclipse|Setting up Eclipse for Moodle development]] - Eclipse is a great editor to use for php development, if you can work out how to set it up.
* [[vim|Setting up Vim for Moodle development]]
* [http://www.aptana.com/ Aptana Studio 2]
* [http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ phpStorm] - PHP Editor, XDEBUG, CSS-X-FIRE, GIT, File/Folder compare, Advanced Find & Replace, MySQL Integration...

=== Browser add-ons ===
*[http://getfirebug.com Firebug], see [[Firebug]] for details.
* [[Web developer extension]]
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/394 ViewSourceWith] - The main goal is to view page source with external applications, but you can do a lot of other things as well.

=== Miscellaneous ===
*[[ctags|Ctags]] - Using a tags file to navigate code
*[[W3C_validation|W3C HTML validator]] - Moodle has built in support to make using it easier.
*[[Windows Installer|Windows Installer]] - Windows Installer documentation for developer.

See also: [http://dev.moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=18 Useful Development Tools forum]in the [http://dev.moodle.org/course/view.php?id=2 Introduction to Moodle Programming course]

==See also==

*[http://moodle.org/security/ Moodle Security Announcements]
*[http://moodle.com/partners/ Moodle Partners] - providers of custom Moodle development services
*[[Migrating contrib code to 2.0]]

[[Category:Developer tools]]

Developer documentation

2012-06-21T08:04:28Z

Derekcx: I wonder will anyone notice this?

<p class="note">'''Note:''' The Dev docs are currently being split from the User docs. During this time you will see quite a few red links.</p>

[[image:moodle-development-logo.jpg|right|400px]]

This Developer section of Moodle Docs is aimed at developers who contribute to the Moodle code, plugins, themes, and so on.

If you manage a Moodle site, or if you teach using Moodle, try the [[:en:Main_page|User docs]].

==How Moodle development works==

The [[Overview|overview of the Moodle development process]] explains how Moodle development occurs and how people become Moodle developers. Current plans are listed on the [[Roadmap]].

You can also enrol in one of the [http://dev.moodle.org Moodle Developer Courses].

==Guidelines==

The following guidelines are crucial reading for anyone wanting to contribute to the Moodle code base:
*[[Coding|Coding guidelines]] have to be followed by all Moodle developers
*[[Moodle architecture]] gives an overview of how the Moodle code works
*[[Process]] explains how changes are incorporated into Moodle
*[[Tracker guide]] explains the Moodle Tracker for keeping track of bugs, issues, feature requests etc
*[[Working with the Community|Working with the Community]] explains how to engage with the dev community and discuss changes
*[[Unit tests|Unit tests]] explains how to run the unit tests, and how to write new test cases.
*[[Profiling PHP|Profiling PHP]] how to analyse your code to find out why it is slow.
*[[Fast portable SQL]] shows SQL techniques that are fast, efficient, and known to work on all supported DBs.
*[[Development hints and tips]] a (developing) list of general wisdom to help with your Moodle projects.

===Core components ===

*[[XMLDB_Documentation|Database abstraction layer]]
*[[Roles|Roles and Capabilities system]] for controlling who can do what
*[[lib/formslib.php|Forms library]] for creating accessible and secure HTML forms that let users edit things
*[[Using_the_file_API|File API]] for managing files stored by Moodle
*[[Database schema introduction|The database schema]]
*[[What happens when you require config.php|What happens when you require config.php]]
*[[lib/moodlelib.php|lib/moodlelib.php]]
*[[lib/weblib.php|lib/weblib.php]] for outputting stuff

==Documentation for core components==

This section is for documentation of specific components of the existing core Moodle code. Discussion of components that are under discussion or in development can be found in the [[Developer notes|developer notes]] or on the [[Roadmap|roadmap]].

The documents below give a general overview. For detailed function-by-function documentation, see the [http://phpdocs.moodle.org/ phpDocumentor] documentation that is automatically generated from the comments in the code.

And don't forget that the most up-to-date and detailed description of how the code works is the code itself, and you can [http://xref.moodle.org/nav.html?index.html browse the code online] using [[PHPXref|PHPXref]].

===Reference for core components===

This section is for those who may not be developers in the traditional sense, but often work under the hood with Moodle. Maybe they are sometimes know and amateurs or code hackers.

[[Reference|Reference]

===Modules included in the standard distribution===

*[[Lesson Specification|Lesson Specification]]
*[[Quiz|Quiz module]]
*[[SCORM schema|SCORM module 1.5 schema]]

==How you can contribute==

===Make a new plugin===

The M in Moodle stands for modular, and the easiest, most maintainable way to add new functionality to Moodle is by using one of the many plugin APIs. There are many types of plugin you can write:
*[[Modules|Activity modules]], see also [[NEWMODULE Documentation]] (work in progress)
**and [[Subplugins|Sub-Plugins]] (2.0 Onwards)
*[[Admin reports|Admin reports]]
*[[Assignment types|Assignment types]]
*[[Authentication plugins|Authentication plugins]]
*[[Blocks|Blocks]]
*Content editors (2.0 onwards)
*[[Course Format|Course Formats]]
*[[Course Report Plugins|Course reports]]
*Course importers (2.0 onwards)
*[[Database fields|Database fields]]
*[[:en:Database presets|Database presets]]
*[[Enrolment plugins|Enrolment plugins]]
*[[Filters|Filters]]
*[[Gradebook_Report_Tutorial|Gradebook report]]
*[[Gradebook export|Gradebook export]]
*[[Gradebook import|Gradebook import]]
*Message senders (2.0 onwards)
*Mnet services
*Plagiarism detection plugins (2.0 onwards)
*[[Writing_a_Portfolio_Plugin|Portfolio plugins]] (2.0 onwards)
*[[Question_type_plugin_how_to|Question types]]
*[[Question import/export formats|Question import/export formats]]
*[[How to write a quiz report plugin|Quiz reports]]
*[[Repository plugins|Repository plugins]] (2.0 onwards)
*[[Resource types|Resource types]]
*[[Search engine adapters|Search engine adapters]]
*Themes which are different in [[Themes_2.0|Moodle 2.0]], and [[Theme_basics|earlier versions]].
*User profile fields
*[[Web services (2.0 onwards)|Web services (2.0 onwards)]]
*Workshop allocators (2.0 onwards)
*Workshop forms (2.0 onwards)
*Workshop evaluators (2.0 onwards)

General information that applies to all types of plugins
*[[Places to search for lang strings|Where to put language strings for your plugin]]
*[[Installing and upgrading plugin database tables|Defining the database tables for your plugin]]

Please see the [[Guidelines for contributed code|Guidelines for contributed code]] for an overview of how to contribute to the Moodle code.

Sometimes it is not possible to write a proper plugin for what you want to do, in which case you may have to resort to using the [[Local_customisation|local customisations]] hook.

===Change core code===

===Ways to contribute that do not involve PHP programming===

*[[Theme development|Create Moodle themes]]
*[[:en:Translation|Translate Moodle into other languages]]
*[[:en:MoodleDocs:Guidelines for contributors|Help document Moodle]]
*[[Tests|Join the testing effort]], which involves [[Tracker|participating in the bug tracker]]

==Plans for the future==

Ideas for and details of planned future features of Moodle are initially discussed on the forums in the [http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5 Using Moodle] course at moodle.org. That developer discussions are intermixed with user discussions in the same forums may seem strange at first but is one of the reasons for the success of Moodle. It is important that both end-users and developers discuss the future features together.

Once ideas begin to crystallize on the forums they can be summarized in this wiki, either as part of the [[Roadmap|roadmap]] or in the form of [[Developer notes|developer notes]]. These pages then form the basis for further discussion in the forums.

*[[Roadmap]]
*[[Developer notes|Developer notes]]
*[[Student projects]]
*[[Developer meetings]]

== Resources ==

*[[Developer FAQ]] - frequently asked questions, especially useful for newcomers to Moodle
*[[Finding_your_way_into_the_Moodle_code|Finding your way into the Moodle code]] - also aimed at newcomers
*[http://tracker.moodle.org/ Moodle tracker] - bug reports, feature requests and other tracked issues
**[[Firefox tracker search]] - How to setup a firefox quicksearch to easily navigate to moodle bugs
**[[Firefox tracker search#Firefox Search Plugins|Firefox Search Plugins]] - Find tracked issues even more easily
*[[Unmerged files]] - changes on the stable branch in CVS that have not been merged to [[HEAD]]
*Browse the code online:
**[http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/ the code with a complete change history from CVS]
**[http://xref.moodle.org/index.html the code, with links generated by PHPXref]
*[http://phpdocs.moodle.org/ Moodle PHP doc reference] - compiled nightly from the comment attached to each class and function in the code.
*[[Database Schema|Database Schema]] - for recent releases
*[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5#4 Development news and discussion] section of Using Moodle course
**especially the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=55 General developer forum]
**[[:en:Filters used on the Moodle.org forums|cool tricks you can use in the moodle.org forums]]

== Tools ==
Some tools people use when working on Moodle code:

=== IDEs ===

* [[Setting_up_Netbeans|Setting up NetBeans for Moodle development]] - NetBeans for PHP is a great out-of-the-box editor.
* [[Setting_up_Eclipse|Setting up Eclipse for Moodle development]] - Eclipse is a great editor to use for php development, if you can work out how to set it up.
* [[vim|Setting up Vim for Moodle development]]
* [http://www.aptana.com/ Aptana Studio 2]
* [http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ phpStorm] - PHP Editor, XDEBUG, CSS-X-FIRE, GIT, File/Folder compare, Advanced Find & Replace, MySQL Integration...

=== Browser add-ons ===
*[http://getfirebug.com Firebug], see [[Firebug]] for details.
* [[Web developer extension]]
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/394 ViewSourceWith] - The main goal is to view page source with external applications, but you can do a lot of other things as well.

=== Miscellaneous ===
*[[ctags|Ctags]] - Using a tags file to navigate code
*[[W3C_validation|W3C HTML validator]] - Moodle has built in support to make using it easier.
*[[Windows Installer|Windows Installer]] - Windows Installer documentation for developer.

See also: [http://dev.moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=18 Useful Development Tools forum]in the [http://dev.moodle.org/course/view.php?id=2 Introduction to Moodle Programming course]

==See also==

*[http://moodle.org/security/ Moodle Security Announcements]
*[http://moodle.com/partners/ Moodle Partners] - providers of custom Moodle development services
*[[Migrating contrib code to 2.0]]

[[Category:Developer tools]]

Talk:Paged course formats

2012-04-17T03:27:00Z

Derekcx: /* OU format option */ blog post

==Introduction==
What is the general idea of 'Paged course formats'? - Will it be that you get to see the section name as a list, then if you wish to view it opens in a new tab within the browser?

==Discussions around this==
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p770737

==Some of the options currently around for alternative formats==
Representing several different approaches.
#http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-28555

===FOLDERVIEW===
Doed much more than just offer page view. Eiting magic as well.
#Folderview Blog post: http://thinkingdistance.org/post/6486856003/folderview-course-format
#Comments by Michael: http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-27646 Including Folderview in Moodle 2

Paul's comment: "Paul Chapin added a comment - 07/Jun/11 3:20 AM : The folder view format doesn't really do it. Basically, that's just a topic format with a different interface. It doesn't deal with the situation of the instructor who wants to make a large amount of reference information, usually files and web links, available as part of a topic or week without visually overwhelming the students. By allowing for a hierarchical structuring of material using folders the amount of information the student is presented with at any given time can be limited and organized logically. It's really files and links that we want, but if that's implemented, adding the rest of the resource types should be fairly straight forward" MDL-27646

===FLEXPAGE===
Unsure of status for 2.
#Flexipage and Moodle 2.0: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83817#p74318

===COLLAPSED===
Three forms: Topics, Weeks and Latest First
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll - Same as Topic's format but with a 'toggle' and a cookie to remember state per user per course that can be persistent. Developed much further - see CONTRIB-3378 below.
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_weekcoll - Same as Week's format but with a 'toggle' as above.
#https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_latfirst - Same as above but current week is displayed first and preceding weeks after for the user. In 'editing' mode it is the same as Collapsed Weeks.

Combined into one:
#CONTRIB-3378
Which has four forms: Topics, Weeks, Latest Week First and Current Topic First. Available from [http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll Modules & Plugin's Database] and documented on [https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Collapsed_Topics_course_format Collapsed Topics Course Format]

Above collapsed forms developed by [http://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=442195 Gareth J Barnard].

===BLOCK===
Experimental jQuery Masonry (#http://masonry.desandro.com/) format for Moodle 2.1:
#https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topmas - Uses the jQuery Masonry plugin to arrange sections as close together as possible. Resizes automatically depending on content.

===GRID===
Not strictly a "paged format" But getting very good reviews. Looks classy.
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_grid Seems a good option

"The Grid Format was originally contributed by Paul Krix. It has since been updated and is now maintained ny Pukunui Technology. This format adds a more graphical interface to viewing Moodle topics and also avoids the "scroll of death" issue by using placeholder graphics to represent each topic. When clicked upon, these graphics launch the topics in ajax windows" from https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-courseformat_grid

===COURSE MENU===
There are at least two in plugins:
#
#
Plus Lei Zhang (and Awesome Moodle) bar

Catalyst have coded two options included in Moodle in Schools package.

==Section Menu Option==

==OU format option==

See this blog post and video: http://moodlefairy.posterous.com/moodle-sub-page-module-avoid-the-scroll-of-de

== Some thoughts ==

1. For weekly courses, one page per section is not necessarily ideal. Instead the OU course format (studyplanner) by default just shows the current week (highlighted) with +- n weeks either side. There is then a link 'Show entire study planner' if you need to find something else. Section 0 is always visible. I think this is a good model (speaking as an OU student here). However, the 'mdl_course.coursedisplay' proposal, with just two settings, does nothing to make this easier. Therefore, I am skeptical about the value of hard-coding that into Moodle core.--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:09, 12 April 2012 (WST)

Yes, agreed. But how many extra settings can users cope with before they give up? A good case for admin defined course defaults and "Advanced" settings. [[User:Ray Lawrence|Ray Lawrence]]

I wonder whether it would be better to use the course format settings rather than adding a field to the course table for this. This would enable each course format to define it's own settings but would mean a change in priorities for the workload --[[User:Andrew Nicols|Andrew Nicols]] 21:59, 13 April 2012 (WST)

2. Even if you press on with your plan, it seems silly to just list the weeks on the course front page in weekly format. Surely it is worth displaying the current week in full there. It will save students one click almost every time they visit the course.--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:09, 12 April 2012 (WST)

Agree. [[User:Ray Lawrence|Ray Lawrence]]

Actually, Tim, this is more or less what I was referring to with the "Accordion" format as a third option in that menu. Basically it's Gareth's [[Collapsed_Topics_course_format|Collapsed Format]]. It would look as you describe and the other sections would be clickable and would expand in-place. I can see it's probably it's less clicks for the weekly and topics format to expand the currently-selected section on the main course page even in the one-section-per-page format, but I'm a little worried about the inconsistency of the interface. Happy to do it if there's no other objections though. [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin Dougiamas]] 15:58, 13 April 2012 (WST)

It's quite hard to work out what is being proposed. Is it one section/week on a page or a collapsible format. both. A sketch would be handy. [[User:Ray Lawrence|Ray Lawrence]]

3. Has anyone at HQ actually downloaded and installed the OU's subpage module? I know it solves a separate problem, but please spend some time looking at it now for two reasons. A. When you do the "Check for regressions in modules caused by course assumptions" bit, you should try to ensure that they benefit modules like subpage, as well as your course format changes. B. Subpage functionality might be worth adding to Moodle too, and the code already exists and works.--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:09, 12 April 2012 (WST)

My reservation about this is that it adds a layer the location of which isn't clear to users. I don't think we can have a format that add an element of mystery to the masses. Think how confused uders can be by activities in Orphaned courses if one isn't careful with it. [[User:Ray Lawrence|Ray Lawrence]]

I've looked at it. Sorry it's just too much to add on at this stage with the short time period and so much to do already. [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin Dougiamas]] 15:58, 13 April 2012 (WST)

4. Be very careful when defining format_renderer_base. If you have format_weekly_renderer extends format_renderer_base, and format_renderer_base generates output for something, then a theme cannot do theme_mytheme_format_renderer cannot usefully extend format_renderer_base to change the output, because format_weekly_renderer still extends format_renderer_base, and not theme_mytheme_format_renderer. (I made this mistake in a few small ways with question_type_renderer base, e.g. the feedback_image mehthod, although I mostly got it right by creating core_question_renderer to output the common parts of questions.) Basically, prefer composition over inheritance (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CompositionInsteadOfInheritance).--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:09, 12 April 2012 (WST)

5. I am worried that you are trying to do this in a rush before the 2.3 deadline, particularly if you are not going to delay mdl_course.coursedisplay until 2.4. It occurs to me that a lot of this could be done initially in third-party course-format plugins. Then, once everyone can see it working, and has been bowled over by how amazing it is (assuming you are right, and I am wrong) you can then refactor the code into Moodle core.--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:09, 12 April 2012 (WST)

Frankly these exist already and do it in all kinds of wierd ways. I want a simple setting that implements it in core formats in the simplest possible way. Others are free to build on top of it with plugins later. [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin Dougiamas]] 15:58, 13 April 2012 (WST)

5.1 I disagree with Tim over implementing initially in third-party course-format plugins. As this is a 'core' functionality change it should be implemented there as 'gospel' way of implementing the functionality so that there is no confusion over interpretation of how it should work. Because if each contrib developer takes their 'view' then we will have a mismash that will have to be sorted and then the contrib developers have to refactor back to the HQ defined standard. I don't live and breathe PHP or Moodle (sacrilege I know) so tend to follow and adapt the 'guru' written code in the core formats as a basis of learning and implementing the correct functionality, hence I consider a core 'guru gospel' implementation to be the better solution. [[User:Gareth Barnard|Gareth Barnard]] 21:20, 12 April 2012 (WST)

Agree. It's fundamental stuff. Let's take it steady. In core.[[User:Ray Lawrence|Ray Lawrence]]

5.2 I do agree with the thought of it being rushed as although I consider a lot of users have been screaming for this for ages, it would be better to get it right first time even if this takes a little longer. As a bodge job could put users off Moodle completely and cause them to lose faith in the quality of the product. [[User:Gareth Barnard|Gareth Barnard]] 21:20, 12 April 2012 (WST)

6. We have not yet published the Moodle 2.x code for the studyplanner course format, but if anyone want to see it, we can probably share it. Just ask.--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:11, 12 April 2012 (WST)

7. Do we really want the course format options to be part of the already very long and complex course settings form. Whey not have a separate link in the settings block for 'Weekly format options', or something like that. Much simpler all round.--[[User:Tim Hunt|Tim Hunt]] 20:13, 12 April 2012 (WST)

Yeah simpler but will they see it there? Some of the settings are quite key ... [[User:Martin Dougiamas|Martin Dougiamas]] 15:58, 13 April 2012 (WST)

8. I override the function 'section_class.prototype.swap_with_section' in '/lib/ajax/section_classes.js' in the contributed 'Collapsed Topics' course format because I use a table for my layout and hence two table rows per section. Therefore, will I still be able to do this? Before I get blamed for using a 'table' tag instead of a 'div' tag and a set of 'ul' tags, tables work for me because the layout is tabular and conceptually is a table in the Object Orientated sense (bar the three/four/more legs), and indeed the W3C specification of a '[http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html table]' states 'The HTML table model allows authors to arrange data -- text, preformatted text, images, links, forms, form fields, other tables, etc. -- into rows and columns of cells.' and that is exactly what I am doing as an arrangement of the sections as rows and columnar subdivision of content / section information. It also works better with Internet Explorer and manipulating the Document Object Model with JavaScript at the client end. [[User:Gareth Barnard|Gareth Barnard]] 21:20, 12 April 2012 (WST)

Eagerly awaiting this, a few comments on the spec.

-The section name (as a link to the separate page)

I'm having visualising this, could you add a mock up to clarify intentions.

- Controls to hide/show that section, as usual

Is this referring to Hidden sections?

- Tthe section summary (truncated if it’s too long)

IMO any automatic setting here will cause issues. Course designer needs to be able to add content as required. It's up to them to manage.

- More sections can be added by a big "plus" icon at the bottom, and old ones can be deleted if they are empty.

In both paged and standard layouts? Would be great.

- The section pages should be seen as "sub" pages of the course page and can have their own blocks.

This could make things pretty complicated.

What would happen if teacher switched to standard view from paged?

How would Nav and settings block behaveon a page?

- There is no longer need in per-user setting to show only one section in the course (it confused people anyway).

So what happens with legacy courses where this in use and standard layout courses when users want to focus on a single section/week?

- Add a user preference controlled by link/button in UI to switch between old-style menu (for expert users) and this new-style pop up (as default, for new users).

Expert users? My vote is for one method

- Extend course settings with format support

Ideally this would be extended to set defaults in the adminitration course defaults. This would be popular and more user friendly than the current change config.php approach.

[[User:Ray Lawrence|Ray Lawrence]]

Talk:Paged course formats

2012-02-25T21:03:20Z

Derekcx: Typo

What is the general idea of 'Paged course formats'? - Will it be that you get to see the section name as a list, then if you wish to view it opens in a new tab within the browser? I now have extensive course format development skills (and I hope enough Git knowledge) - can I help with writing the code for Moodle core? I'm [http://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=442195 Gareth J Barnard] - developer of the Collapsed Topics / Weeks course formats.

==Discussions around this==
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p770737

==Some of the options currently around for alternative formats==
Representing several different approaches.
#http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-28555

===FOLDERVIEW===
Doed much more than just offer page view. Eiting magic as well.
#Folderview Blog post: http://thinkingdistance.org/post/6486856003/folderview-course-format
#Comments by Michael: http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-27646 Including Folderview in Moodle 2

Paul's comment: "Paul Chapin added a comment - 07/Jun/11 3:20 AM : The folder view format doesn't really do it. Basically, that's just a topic format with a different interface. It doesn't deal with the situation of the instructor who wants to make a large amount of reference information, usually files and web links, available as part of a topic or week without visually overwhelming the students. By allowing for a hierarchical structuring of material using folders the amount of information the student is presented with at any given time can be limited and organized logically. It's really files and links that we want, but if that's implemented, adding the rest of the resource types should be fairly straight forward" MDL-27646

===FLEXPAGE===
Unsure of status for 2.
#Flexipage and Moodle 2.0: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83817#p74318

===COLLAPSED===
Two forms: week and topics
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll

===GRID===
Not strictly a "paged format" But getting very good reviews. Looks classy.
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_grid Seems a good option

"The Grid Format was originally contributed by Paul Krix. It has since been updated and is now maintained ny Pukunui Technology. This format adds a more graphical interface to viewing Moodle topics and also avoids the "scroll of death" issue by using placeholder graphics to represent each topic. When clicked upon, these graphics launch the topics in ajax windows" from https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-courseformat_grid

===COURSE MENU===
There are at least two in plugins:
#
#
Plus Lei Zhang (and Awesome Moodle) bar

Catalyst have coded two options included in Moodle in Schools package.

==Section Menu Option==

==OU format option==

Talk:Paged course formats

2012-02-25T20:57:08Z

Derekcx:

What is the general idea of 'Paged course formats'? - Will it be that you get to see the section name as a list, then if you wish to view it opens in a new tab within the browser? I now have extensive course format development skills (and I hope enough Git knowledge) - can I help with writing the code for Moodle core? I'm [http://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=442195 Gareth J Barnard] - developer of the Collapsed Topics / Weeks course formats.

==Discussions around this==
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p770737

==Some of the options currently around for alternative formats==
Representing several different approaches.
#http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-28555

===FOLDERVIEW===
Doed much more than just offer page view. Eiting magic as well.
#Folderview Blog post: http://thinkingdistance.org/post/6486856003/folderview-course-format
#Comments by Michael: http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-27646 Including Folderview in Moodle 2
#There is a video in a blog somewhere that gives a good picture

Paul's comment: "Paul Chapin added a comment - 07/Jun/11 3:20 AM : The folder view format doesn't really do it. Basically, that's just a topic format with a different interface. It doesn't deal with the situation of the instructor who wants to make a large amount of reference information, usually files and web links, available as part of a topic or week without visually overwhelming the students. By allowing for a hierarchical structuring of material using folders the amount of information the student is presented with at any given time can be limited and organized logically. It's really files and links that we want, but if that's implemented, adding the rest of the resource types should be fairly straight forward" MDL-27646

===FLEXPAGE===
Unsure of status for 2.
#Flexipage and Moodle 2.0: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83817#p74318

===COLLAPSED===
Two forms: week and topics
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll

===GRID===
Not strictly a "paged format" But getting very good reviews. Looks classy.
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_grid Seems a good option

"The Grid Format was originally contributed by Paul Krix. It has since been updated and is now maintained ny Pukunui Technology. This format adds a more graphical interface to viewing Moodle topics and also avoids the "scroll of death" issue by using placeholder graphics to represent each topic. When clicked upon, these graphics launch the topics in ajax windows" from https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-courseformat_grid

===COURSE MENU===
There are at least two in plugins:
#
#
Plus Lei Zhang (and Awesome Moodle) bar

Catalyst have coded two options included in Moodle in Schools package.

==Section Menu Option==

==OU format option==

Talk:Paged course formats

2012-02-25T20:44:02Z

Derekcx: Add links

What is the general idea of 'Paged course formats'? - Will it be that you get to see the section name as a list, then if you wish to view it opens in a new tab within the browser? I now have extensive course format development skills (and I hope enough Git knowledge) - can I help with writing the code for Moodle core? I'm [http://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=442195 Gareth J Barnard] - developer of the Collapsed Topics / Weeks course formats.

==Discussions around this==
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p770737

==Some of the options currently around for alternative formats==
Representing several different approaches.
#http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-28555

===FOLDERVIEW===
Doed much more than just offer page view. Eiting magic as well.
#Folderview Blog post: http://thinkingdistance.org/post/6486856003/folderview-course-format
#Comments by Michael: http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-27646 Including Folderview in Moodle 2
#There is a video in a blog somewhere that gives a good picture

Paul's comment: "Paul Chapin added a comment - 07/Jun/11 3:20 AM : The folder view format doesn't really do it. Basically, that's just a topic format with a different interface. It doesn't deal with the situation of the instructor who wants to make a large amount of reference information, usually files and web links, available as part of a topic or week without visually overwhelming the students. By allowing for a hierarchical structuring of material using folders the amount of information the student is presented with at any given time can be limited and organized logically. It's really files and links that we want, but if that's implemented, adding the rest of the resource types should be fairly straight forward" MDL-27646

===FLEXPAGE===
Unsure of status for 2.
#Flexipage and Moodle 2.0: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83817#p74318

===COLLAPSED===
Two forms: week and topics
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll

===GRID===
Not strictly a "paged format" But getting very good reviews. Looks classy.
#http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_grid Seems a good option

===COURSE MENU===
There are at least two in plugins:
#
#
Plus Lei Zhang (and Awesome Moodle) bar

Catalyst have coded two options included in Moodle in Schools package.

==Section Menu Option==

==OU format option==

Media embedding

2012-02-25T10:12:33Z

Derekcx:

[[Category:Interfaces]]
{{Moodle 2.3}}
{{Work in progress}}

From Moodle 2.3, a new API can be used to embed media items. Media items are:

* Audio files.
* Video files.
* Flash files.
* Audio, video, or similar content embedded from remote websites (currently YouTube and Vimeo).

== Automatic embedding ==

As in previous versions of Moodle, you do not need to do anything special to embed media files in text that users enter. This text is processed by the mediaplugin filter, which (if enabled) will automatically embed media files when users enter a link to the media.

You only need to use the API on this page if you want to embed media files as part of output generated by your plugin, rather than generated by user text.

== Embedding media ==

To embed a media file, use the following code:

<code php>
$mediarenderer = $PAGE->get_renderer('core', 'media');
echo $mediarenderer->embed_url(new moodle_url('http://example.org/a.mp3'));
</code>

=== Size ===

You can supply video size in two ways:

* As parameters to the embed_url function.
* At the end of the URL as #d=640x480 (d is short for 'dimensions')

A #d in the URL will override the function parameters.

If you don't supply size, you get default behaviour. Note that some players are capable of automatically determining the correct size, so it is better not to supply size unless you're sure of it.

Question: how will default behaviour be determined? From the video information or some presets in Moodle?

=== Name ===

You can also supply an optional name as a parameter to the embed_url function. The system uses this in various places where a title for the content is required. If you don't supply a name, the filename is used.

If the user does not have any plugins installed that are capable of playing your video, they will see a link containing this text.

=== Multiple formats ===

To get the most compatible results, you can supply more than one file in order to provide the same media content in multiple formats. The system automatically sets up appropriate fallbacks so that your file is likely to play.

Note: The best results are obtained if you supply a file that Flash can play (.f4v or .flv), and also an MPEG-4 file which is formatted for mobile devices (.mp4 or .m4v). This combination should play on all common devices and browsers.

<code php>
$mediarenderer = $PAGE->get_renderer('core', 'media');
$files = array(new moodle_url('http://example.org/a.m4v'), new moodle_url('http://example.org/a.f4v'));
echo $mediarenderer->embed_alternatives($files);
</code>

In the media filter, we let users automatically generate these effects using a URL like this:

http://example.org/a.m4v#http://example.org/a.f4v#d=400x300

If you want to support this kind of multi-URL string in your own code, use the core_media::split_alternatives function.

=== Flash and security ===

Allowing ordinary users to embed Flash on your website, which other users can then view, creates a serious security risk. By default, the embed code shown above will not embed Flash .swf files; these will be included as a download link instead.

If the media content that you are embedding can only be set up by trusted users such as teachers, then you should use the core_media::OPTION_TRUSTED option when you embed content. This will allow Flash content to be embedded.

<code php>
$mediarenderer = $PAGE->get_renderer('core', 'media');
$options = array(core_media::OPTION_TRUSTED => true);
echo $mediarenderer->embed_url(new moodle_url('http://example.org/a.mp3'), '', 0, 0, $options);
</code>

=== Other options ===

Two other options are currently available at time of writing.

* core_media::OPTION_NO_LINK: Disables the download link fallback. Users who don't have a suitable player plugin will see nothing at all. This option should be used if you always print a visible download link separately, as there is then no need for a fallback link.

* core_media::OPTION_EMBED_OR_BLANK: Depending on the filetype and server options it might not be possible to embed the file. Normally the system outputs a download link in that case. Using this option causes it to return an empty string. Use the option if you're going to check the return value and do something different if it isn't possible to embed the file. (Note: This option is based on server settings, not on the current user. If the system is able to create embed code for the file, then this code will be returned and not blank, even if the current user doesn't have the right plugin installed.) You can also achieve the same effect by separately calling the $mediarenderer->can_embed_url() function.

== Changing media embedding behaviour ==

If you want to change the media embedding behaviour in all locations within your own Moodle installation, you can do that by overriding the core_media_renderer class.

You can [[Themes_2.0_overriding_a_renderer|override renderers within a theme]].

=== Changing player list ===

In your renderer which extends core_media_renderer, you will typically want to override the get_players_raw function to either add new player classes to the array, remove existing ones, or both. For example, if you create a different way to embed FLV files, you could remove the existing flv renderer and add a new one using the following function:

<code php>
protected function get_players_raw() {
$original = parent::get_players_raw();
unset($original['flv']);
$original['flv'] = new theme_mytheme_myflvplayer();
return $original;
}
</code>

=== Writing a new player ===

Writing player classes is easy. Your player class should extend core_media_player if it handles a file type (like FLV), or core_media_player_external if it handles URLs for an external site (like YouTube).

Here is an example player class for a new video format called .frogvideo:

<code php>
class core_media_player_frogvideo extends core_media_player {
public function embed($urls, $name, $width, $height, $options) {
// $urls is a list of the alternative urls supported by this player
// (i.e. that end in .frogvideo) - you use this list to construct
// the embed html.

// Just return the html code to embed this player. Some part of the
// html should include code that appears if the user doesn't have
// a suitable plugin installed; put the placeholder at that point.
return '...HTML code...' . core_media_player::PLACEHOLDER . '...';
}

public function get_supported_extensions() {
return array('frogvideo');
}

public function get_rank() {
// If you want this player to be used in preference to the existing
// ones, use a bigger rank number than existing players.
return 111;
}
}
</code>

For more detail about the available functions and more complex use cases, look at the PHP documentation for core_media_player in medialib.php.

== Current documentation ==

To see current in-code documentation, look in the files lib/medialib.php and at the class core_media_renderer in lib/outputrenderers.php.

Talk:Files usability 2.3

2012-02-25T10:05:03Z

Derekcx: /* Other comments */ new section

Another nice usability idea: MDL-23044 thumbnails in the filepicker in more cases (My private files, Server files, Recent files and File system repository would be the obvious ones to add.)

-- MD: yes we had that one. Updated with the link

Comment for C5: Server Files by Ralf Hilgenstock
- Show only courses where user has access to
- Course category names are often not in aware, so they could be hidden
- User expect that all fields used in course context are available here. This includes activities and ressources. What happens with third party modules?

-- MD: yes, good call on the "my courses" only. Added that.

Comment for D2: Add the ability to "replace" files by Ralf Hilgenstock
We discussed this with lots of clients. File versioning is not so easy to handle even if same files are used by several users.
Some cases:
.- Teacher 1 adds a file to several courses and wants to update the file in all courses. That is the standard situation. Mostly s/he is aware where the file is been used.
.- Teacher 2 adds a file to a long term syllabus to course 1a and has a course 1b with same topic in the next term. The syllabus is been updated for the course 1b and the file has the same name. The new syllabus should be used in courses 1b only. It should not be changed accidentially in course 1a.
.-Teacher 3 adds a file to his course. Student 1 reads the document this week. During weekend a new version is been uploaded and replaced the first one. Student 2 reads next week version 2. At the end of week the teacher discusses the document in the class and students will be confused because they red different versions.
.-Teacher 4 adds a document into a course. Teacher 5 takes the document into its own course via server files. Teacher 4 updates the document. S/he is not aware that Teacher 5 also uses the document. Teacher 5 don't get an information that the document is been updated and is confused if students read different content

During the discussions we found that teacher don't understand the the complexity of versioning of documents until its defined for different situations. Some aspects:
- who is document owner and who can update
- can I predefine what happens with a document that I initially upload to the pool/course/activity (i.e. never update, always update in own contexts, always update in other users contexts, select replacement individually per context where it is been used, send notification to all users with information about changes)
- is there a notification about all contexts where a document is used
- can I choose replacement for the different contexts
- did other users of a document get a notification if some else updated the document.

-- MD: I believe that this will be solved when we finish [[Improved_support_for_external_File_content]] also in 2.3. The linking/copying behaviour will work consistently across Moodle then and it should be fairly clear what will be updated and when.

== Other comments ==

#Finding files in server takes a lot of clicks, probably 3.3.5. Is this the place for a request for search?
#3.3.5 Tree structure in Filepicker: I've had my say here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27236. Omit if possible the extra folders.
#2.1.2 Simgle click upload: There is some thinking here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075 IMO inserting an image should also be streamlined. I do take the point of the problem of several ways to do things.

Good to see the progress here on this page! --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] 18:05, 25 February 2012 (WST)

Talk:Paged course formats

2012-02-20T00:05:15Z

Derekcx: Added one link to forum

Talk:Paged course formats

2012-02-19T23:59:25Z

Derekcx: Jast adding some links

Moodle 2.1 release notes

2011-07-16T10:13:23Z

Derekcx: /* Other highlights */

==Moodle 2.1==
Released: 1st July 2011

===Major new features===

====New question engine====

* Moodle question system has been rewritten to make it much more robust and to support lots of new possible functionality.
* See summary of changes at the [[Moodle 2.1 release notes/New question engine|New question engine]] page and more details in the tracker MDL-20636.
* Warning: This change requires a major database upgrade. If you have a lot of question attempts in your site, you probably need to [[:en:Upgrading_to_Moodle_2.1#Planning_the_question_engine_upgrade|plan your upgrade in stages]], using some extra code that is not in the core system.
* Backward compatibility warning: ''Random short-answer matching'' question type was moved out of the main Moodle distribution.

====Ability to restore the course contents from Moodle 1.9 backup files====

* Course backup files created in Moodle 1.9 can be now restored during the normal restore process.
* No user data (like forum posts, grades, submissions, ...) are supported yet. Blocks are not restored yet.
* See MDL-22414 for details.

====Support for mobile devices====

* Moodle 2.1 comes with a built-in web service designed for mobile applications (required to run the official [[:dev:Mobile_app|Moodle app]])
* See MDL-27551 and [[:en:Enable_mobile_web_services|Enable mobile web services documentation]] for details
* MDL-25394 Improved Support for Mobile Themes and Browser Detection

===Other highlights===

* MDL-11288 Ability to copy (or clone) an activity
* MDL-27428 Ability to navigate navigation/settings menu and dock with keyboard
* MDL-26784 Improved plugins check/overview page
* MDL-27500 Upgraded TinyMCE to the latest version 3.4.2
* MDL-26105 User friendly block settings and help information
* MDL-27251 New performance setting for calculating an appropriate timeout during large cURL requests
* MDL-25805 Friendlier navigation for parent roles to see mentees in courses
* MDL-27577 Daylight saving should be calculated for users having string timezone
* MDL-27171 Messaging Improvements: Site administrators can now control which message delivery methods can be used for each message type. (In 2.0 students could switch off notifications. In 2.1 this can be overidden)

===Security issues===

There were no significant security issues fixed in this release.

===Upgrading===

When upgrading to Moodle 2.1, you must first upgrade to Moodle 1.9 or (preferably) 2.0. We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect.

Please also check that you have PHP 5.3.2 or later, as the minimum required version has increased since Moodle 2.0.

For further information, see [[Upgrading to Moodle 2.1|Upgrading to Moodle 2.1]].

===For developers: API changes===

* The new question engine changes the API for question types. See [[dev:Developing a Question Type]].
* The new question engine changes the API for activity modules that use the question bank. See [[dev:Using the question engine from module]].
* There is a new API available for activity modules to support restore of 1.9 backup files. See [[dev:Backup 1.9 conversion for developers]]
* The Messaging API now allows plugin creators to specify default message providers for message outputs. See [[dev:Messaging_2.0_improvements#Adding_new_message_type]]
* MDL-28166 Note that the two events triggered by the quiz module (quiz_attempt_started and quiz_attempt_<strike>processed</strike>submitted) changed slightly to follow a more consistent naming scheme. We do not believe they were used much, so we decided to fix them now, so we could have a nice, stable API in the future.

<noinclude>

[[Category:Release notes]]
[[Category:Moodle 2.1]]

[[es:Notas de Moodle 2.1]]
[[fr:Notes de mise à jour de Moodle 2.1]]

Moodle 2.1 release notes

2011-06-03T08:23:15Z

Derekcx: Copied over stuff from 1.9 site

Release date: Not yet released (This content copied over from 1.9 site from https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Moodle_2.1_release_notes just as a start)

===Highlights===

====New question engine====

This is a major rewrite of the Moodle question system to make it much more robust and to support lots of new possible functionality. It was implemented by developers at the [http://www.open.ac.uk/ Open University], primarily Tim Hunt. There is a site on OpenLearn that is running the new question engine (back-ported into Moodle 1.9) at http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3484. We recommend you start with 'A Moudle Quiz' (not a misspelling: M+OU+DLE). You'll need to register on the site and join the module to interact.

Details at [[Development:Question_Engine_2]] and in MDL-20636.

The main user-visible change is that the old Quiz setting '''Adaptive mode: yes/no''' has been replaced by a new option '''How questions behave'''. This provides a range of possible behaviours:
; Deferred feedback : what used to be called Adaptive mode: no, but with an important addition. With deferred feedback behaviour, it is finally the case that '''wrong answers to questions can give negative score''' - one of the oldest outstanding feature requests MDL-1647.
; Adaptive mode & Adaptive mode (no penalties): what used to be called Adaptive mode: yes
; Manual grading : used for essay questions (irrespective of what the quiz is set to) but you can now choose to have every question in the quiz manually graded, if you wish.
; Interactive mode : This is a new behaviour created by the OU. It is similar to the old adaptive mode, but with a few changes:
:* After submitting one answer, and reading the feedback, the student has to click a 'Try again' button before they can try a new response.
:* Once the student has got the question right, they can no longer change their response.
:* Once the student has got the question wrong too many times, they are just graded wrong (or partially correct) and get shown the feedback and can no longer change their answer.
:* There can be different feedback after each try the student makes.
; Immediate feedback : this is a bit like Adaptive/Interactive mode, in that the student can submit their response immediately during the quiz attempt, and get it graded. However, they can only submit one response, they cannot change it later.
; Deferred feedback or Immediate feedback with Certainty-based marking : with Certainty-based marking, the student does not only answer the question, but they also indicate how sure they are they got the question right. The grading is adjusted by the choice of certainty, so that students have to reflect honestly on their own level of knowledge in order to get the best mark.

There are corresponding changes in places that use questions, like the quiz and question preview. In particular the '''quiz manual grading report has been greatly improved'''.

The question types themselves have not changed very much in this release. The main change is '''students can attach files to essay question responses''' if the teacher allows it. Also, the teacher can choose whether the HTML editor is used.

The new system has extensive automated tests, which should ensure that bugs are much rarer in future.

=====Warning!=====

* This change requires a major database upgrade. Currently the best information about preparing for this is on [[Development:Question_Engine_2:Testing#Testing_the_upgrade]].
* The one existing feature is its not possible to support in the new system is the Random short-answer matching question type. Therefore, we propose to move this question type out of the main Moodle release, and make it a optional plugin (which will not be compatible with Moodle 2.1 unless someone works out how to fix it). If this change will cause you problems, please explain in [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=176097 this Quiz forum thread].

=====Note for question-type developers=====

Unfortunately, the extent of this change means that question types that are compatible with Moodle 2.0 will not work with Moodle 2.1 until they have been updated. Brief instructions for updating your question type are at [[Development:Developing_a_Question_Type#Converting_a_Moodle_2.0_question_type]]. If you need more help than this, please ask in the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=737 Quiz forum]. I (Tim) will respond, and update the documentation. As a rough guide, I was able to upgrade most of the standard and OU-specific question types in about two days each. Of course, I know exactly how the new system works.

===Others===

* MDL-11288 Ability to copy (or clone) an activity

===Functional changes===

* ...

===Security issues===

To be released later

===System requirements===

* ...

===Upgrading===

When upgrading to Moodle 2.1, you must first upgrade to Moodle 2.0 or later. We advise that you test the upgrade first on a COPY of your production site, to make sure it works as you expect.

For further information, see [[Upgrading to Moodle 2.1]].

===For developers: API changes===

* The new question engine changes the API for question types. See [[Development:Developing a Question Type]].
* The new question engine changes the API for activity modules that use the question bank. See [[Development:Using the question engine from module]].

===Credits===

* ...

<noinclude>

[[Category:Release notes]]
[[Category:Moodle 2.1]]

[[fr:Notes de mise à jour de Moodle 2.1]]

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-06-03T02:34:44Z

Derekcx:

Here are the 2009 and 2011 archives: [https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/User:Derek_Chirnside/archives 2009 and 2011 archives]

My new rambling page is: [https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/User:Derek_Chirnside here in the new 20 docs]

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-06-03T02:33:46Z

Derekcx: Replaced content with "Here are the 2009 and 2011 archives: https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/User:Derek_Chirnside/archives My new rambling page is here in the new 20 docs: [[https://docs.moodle.org..."

Here are the 2009 and 2011 archives: [[https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/User:Derek_Chirnside/archives]]

My new rambling page is here in the new 20 docs: [[https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/User:Derek_Chirnside]]

User:Derek Chirnside/archives

2011-06-03T02:24:52Z

Derekcx: Created page with "==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later== #[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0] #[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154..."

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333
Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

===Navigation===
Random Post: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694

===Repository/File Picker===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]

Blog Posts:
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300

Discussions:
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

Tracker:
#META issue

===File Picker===
[[File_picker]]

==A few pages==
#[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
----

=OLD STUFF below here=

Just a dump of misc links and thoughts while I while I remember them.

==Activity Locking (Now called "Conditional Activities" . . .)==
Timed release for activities is a strongly desired feature.

There is a script for 1.9.x that works.
It is being implemented in 2.0 Refs: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=92731

Now called conditional activity: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Conditional_activities

==Forums==
===Locking a thred/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359

===Subscribe at the thread level===

I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?

Forum Posts:

===Export at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254

==Book Module==

I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

==Admin Functions==

===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2150 Sharing cart] (2009) The Sharing Cart is a pick-and-choose tool that lets you roam courses across your entire Moodle site, select just the item you want (without user data), and place it into your own course. The Sharing Cart, once turned on, follows you as you go course to course, carrying the items you pick up along the way. It’s an easy, intuitive tool for duplicating the teaching materials and activities we use every day. You can also use it to clone an activity within the same course. Some teachers found they can use it as a mini-library of frequently used content for copying to many of their own courses.

==Gradebook==

===Gradebook grade report hide percentage===

Moodle Help: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User_report

Two requests for this feature:
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13471
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15887

The forum discussion that I can find . . .

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=90984
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=98562
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102310

Simple customisation:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102310

Five quick steps:
Overview: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=80732#p357940

===Floating Names and Headers===

Freeze frame alternatives. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13950

The cludge/fix for a lot of items: group assessments in categories and hide them as needed. This is the problem of the student names list. The header problem: creagte groups: display one group at a time.

Old solution: The question of reprinting headers at regular intevals on the page. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=91329#p454697

There is no sign of a freeze panel in any Moodle roadmap.

==New course formats/Course building==
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102680#p453401 - Six new formats

Glen Davies - Single section format - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=90762

===Side Menu Bar===
One section problem.
If there is one empty section you still see it.

==File Upload and Linking==

===Multiple File Upload===
Facebok and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

===Multiple linking all at once===

If you have a bunch of files in your Files area, then there should be a better way to link them than one by one. Maybe a GMail option "Add another file" with the three aspects - title, description, browse . . .

Or maybe a tick box option in the Files area that fills a form with filenames and leaves some blanks. This will need a file API change

==Misc==

===Bb imports===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

===Bulk Uploads===
There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831

===WebDAV===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25707

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=98786 June 8th 2008

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-90

Setup instructions "for after 1.9" https://docs.moodle.org/en/WebDAV_Setup

There is a patch for 1.9 to use webDav, but no indication of if it will be in 2.0 core.

==E-mail type questions==

===Notification of new enrolment===

===Notification of first time visits===

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Groups==

===Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310

===Site wide groups==

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

==Surveys==

Questionnaire https://docs.moodle.org/en/Questionnaire_module

Feedback https://docs.moodle.org/en/Feedback_module

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-06-01T23:41:00Z

Derekcx: /* Teacher: email notifications when a new account created */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

===Teacher: email notifications when a new account created===
If you create an account, then you have to send a second message to tell the user of the account information. Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390

From the comments in 2009: "There is somewhat of a move away from directly sending emails because of the variety of forms that folks like to receive communications. For example, some users may want to receive an IM or SMS message from Moodle rather than an email. The goal is to use a united messaging system and then let the user control how that message gets sent out"

Also: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19851 :Messaging: Allow for personalization of message by using ##field## similar to database or <nowiki>[[filtertext]]</nowiki>"

===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250
===A way to link files===

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25347

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

==NAVIGATION THINGS==
===Improvements in the Navigation block===
Need to avoid the Navigation menu scroll of death

===Avoiding the scroll of death===
FOLDERVIEW: New in 2.1: http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/folderview-a-new-anti-scroll-of-death-course-format-for-moodle-2/

From Moodlerooms: http://manuals.moodlerooms.com/display/JOULE2/FolderView+Course+Format

Tracker issues:

Lei Zhang's menu: https://github.com/leizhang/moodle-block_menu_site_and_course

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-06-01T23:38:20Z

Derekcx: /* Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

===Teacher: email notifications when a new account created===
If you create an account, then you have to send a second message to tell the user of the account information. Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390

From the comments in 2009: "There is somewhat of a move away from directly sending emails because of the variety of forms that folks like to receive communications. For example, some users may want to receive an IM or SMS message from Moodle rather than an email. The goal is to use a united messaging system and then let the user control how that message gets sent out"

===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250
===A way to link files===

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25347

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

==NAVIGATION THINGS==
===Improvements in the Navigation block===
Need to avoid the Navigation menu scroll of death

===Avoiding the scroll of death===
FOLDERVIEW: New in 2.1: http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/folderview-a-new-anti-scroll-of-death-course-format-for-moodle-2/

From Moodlerooms: http://manuals.moodlerooms.com/display/JOULE2/FolderView+Course+Format

Tracker issues:

Lei Zhang's menu: https://github.com/leizhang/moodle-block_menu_site_and_course

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-30T05:37:12Z

Derekcx: /* Avoiding the scroll of death */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250
===A way to link files===

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25347

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

==NAVIGATION THINGS==
===Improvements in the Navigation block===
Need to avoid the Navigation menu scroll of death

===Avoiding the scroll of death===
FOLDERVIEW: New in 2.1: http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/folderview-a-new-anti-scroll-of-death-course-format-for-moodle-2/

From Moodlerooms: http://manuals.moodlerooms.com/display/JOULE2/FolderView+Course+Format

Tracker issues:

Lei Zhang's menu: https://github.com/leizhang/moodle-block_menu_site_and_course

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-30T05:19:46Z

Derekcx: /* SORTED Book module and 2.0 */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250
===A way to link files===

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25347

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

==NAVIGATION THINGS==
===Improvements in the Navigation block===
Need to avoid the Navigation menu scroll of death

===Avoiding the scroll of death===
New in 2.1: http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/folderview-a-new-anti-scroll-of-death-course-format-for-moodle-2/
Tracer issues:

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-30T04:56:36Z

Derekcx: /* Blogs: blogs visible at course level only */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250
===A way to link files===

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25347

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-30T01:43:26Z

Derekcx: /* Discussions */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250
===A way to link files===

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker:

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-30T01:41:25Z

Derekcx: /* ADMIN FUNCTIONS */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==A PERSONAL WISH LIST==
==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker:

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-30T01:39:26Z

Derekcx:

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
#repositories (sort of)

There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon in 2.1, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
Rationale: for a student centred/constructivist LMS to have no self signup for groups is a bit of a pity.

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker:

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-29T06:16:47Z

Derekcx:

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

There is a lot of really god things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
#Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
#Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
#Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12944
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker:

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-26T15:07:15Z

Derekcx:

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

There is a lot of really god things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:
===Teach: Provide a quick 1<>1 forum/dialogue in core Moodle===
Tracker: Convenience/usability: provide a simple way to provide teachers a 1<>1 conference, journal, conversation, dialogue forum with students. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27223
Similar idea: Autocreate a group for each student in the course and the group name set to the first and last name http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21000

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker:

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T14:10:27Z

Derekcx: Just getting rid of final extra items

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

There is a lot of really god things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Admin: Cloning items===
Coming soon, I think.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===Admin: e-mail admin when manual account created by someone===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Admin: Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Teacher: Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290
===Teach: E-mail to course members===
Override forum setting.

Tracker item:

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===File management: One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===File management: Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
====Other random links====
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.

Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

Forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175989#p772104

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==BLOGS==
===SORTED: blogs with comments===
===Blogs: blogs visible at course level only===
Tracker:

Forum Posts:

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:50:18Z

Derekcx: /* Bulk course create with CSV */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker item with code: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114

==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:47:23Z

Derekcx: /* One Click upload of file */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
Tracker item with code: single click file upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19075

===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:46:17Z

Derekcx: /* Forum: listing of attached files */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062

===Forum/Groups: Allow "Create new discussion for each group"===
Tracker item: Allow "Create new discussion for each group" to enable teachers to post the same question for each group with only one posting http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19670

===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:44:14Z

Derekcx: /* Notification of first time visits */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits/enrolment in a course===
Tracker item: Generate Email Notification to Teachers upon Student Enrollment in a Course http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20647

Tracker item with code: Notify self-enrol by email http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20290

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:41:11Z

Derekcx: /* SORTED Site wide groups */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:40:47Z

Derekcx: /* CSV creation of cohorts */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
==SORTED Site wide groups==
Now called cohorts

===Groups: CSV creation of cohorts===
Tracker: Add ability to upload to a cohort via Upload users http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26965

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:38:01Z

Derekcx: /* Cloning items */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
==SORTED Site wide groups==
Now called cohorts

===CSV creation of cohorts===

----

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:36:49Z

Derekcx:

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2150 Sharing cart] (2009) The Sharing Cart is a pick-and-choose tool that lets you roam courses across your entire Moodle site, select just the item you want (without user data), and place it into your own course. The Sharing Cart, once turned on, follows you as you go course to course, carrying the items you pick up along the way. It’s an easy, intuitive tool for duplicating the teaching materials and activities we use every day. You can also use it to clone an activity within the same course. Some teachers found they can use it as a mini-library of frequently used content for copying to many of their own courses.

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
==SORTED Site wide groups==
Now called cohorts

===CSV creation of cohorts===

----

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:36:03Z

Derekcx: /* =SORTED Site wide groups */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2150 Sharing cart] (2009) The Sharing Cart is a pick-and-choose tool that lets you roam courses across your entire Moodle site, select just the item you want (without user data), and place it into your own course. The Sharing Cart, once turned on, follows you as you go course to course, carrying the items you pick up along the way. It’s an easy, intuitive tool for duplicating the teaching materials and activities we use every day. You can also use it to clone an activity within the same course. Some teachers found they can use it as a mini-library of frequently used content for copying to many of their own courses.

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups===
Now called cohorts
===CSV creation of cohorts===

----

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-25T13:34:38Z

Derekcx: /* Forum: have ForumNG in core */

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2150 Sharing cart] (2009) The Sharing Cart is a pick-and-choose tool that lets you roam courses across your entire Moodle site, select just the item you want (without user data), and place it into your own course. The Sharing Cart, once turned on, follows you as you go course to course, carrying the items you pick up along the way. It’s an easy, intuitive tool for duplicating the teaching materials and activities we use every day. You can also use it to clone an activity within the same course. Some teachers found they can use it as a mini-library of frequently used content for copying to many of their own courses.

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
Tracker issue: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-21538

[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups==
Now called cohorts
===CSV creation of cohorts===

----

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/

User:Derek Chirnside

2011-05-24T14:02:04Z

Derekcx: Adding tracker to Forum issue

I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3.

[http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel Popular issues on TRACKER] | [

==ADMIN FUNCTIONS==
===Cloning items===
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21234&parent=102367 (Old: 2005)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67185#p450794 (2007)

[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2150 Sharing cart] (2009) The Sharing Cart is a pick-and-choose tool that lets you roam courses across your entire Moodle site, select just the item you want (without user data), and place it into your own course. The Sharing Cart, once turned on, follows you as you go course to course, carrying the items you pick up along the way. It’s an easy, intuitive tool for duplicating the teaching materials and activities we use every day. You can also use it to clone an activity within the same course. Some teachers found they can use it as a mini-library of frequently used content for copying to many of their own courses.

===e-mail user when manual account created===
E-mail sent to user on manual account creation http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
Discussion with code: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333

Docs: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Manual_accounts

===Bulk course create with CSV===
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
==TEACHING FUNCTIONS==
===Notification of first time visits===

==REPOSITORY/FILE PICKER==
[[File_picker]]
===One Click upload of file===
===Multiple File Upload===
Facebook and Flickr have it, why not Moodle. :)

#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
#Bugtracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12810

There is a simple version using CSV's available.

Issue tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
Discussion: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30126#p450831
Tracker:
===Other random links===
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163046 Repository]
Discussion: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694|Course files management]
====Blog Posts====
#http://www.mattcornock.co.uk/blog/matt/moodle-2/file-repository-course-files
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271
#http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=300
====Discussions====
#Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=157250

==FORUM MODULE ENHANCEMENTS==
See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Forum_requirements
===Forum: listing of attached files===
In some respects, Moodle does not have an easy to use file sharing functionality. (Database if not really easy enough for a basic user) Hence this suggestion for an enhancement.
Tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27062
===Forum: locking a thread/forum===
Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
===Forum: subscribe at the thread level===
I notice in the tracker http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1626 there is a request for the ability for notification (subscription) at the thread level, not just the forum level. It says it is in 2.0 in the tracker. What does this mean? Is this definite, since it is not mentioned in the roadmap? Is it too small an enhancement to justify comment in the roadmap? To what level of detail does the roadmap get maintained?
===Forum: export posts at end of term===
Tracker issue: https://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Derek_Chirnside
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19254
===Forum: have ForumNG in core===
#[[ForumNG|ForumNG Pages]]

==MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS==
====Forum posts====
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]

==GROUPS==
===Groups Self enrolment===
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13962
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-1310
===SORTED Site wide groups==
Now called cohorts
===CSV creation of cohorts===

----

==A few forum postings I may like to look back at later==

#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149845 Page Naming etc 2.0]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154450 Forum subscriptions]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=158841 Wordpress and Moodle]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162045 Benchmarks]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=70619 Misc comments incl Dim Dim etc]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162688 Resize video]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162628 Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=155083 Dependencies aka Course completion]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=162882 Moodle UI]
#[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153801 Decaf]

===SORTED Book module and 2.0===
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Book_module#Books_and_Moodle_2.0

But still not in the core I note there is a request for the book module to be in the core. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-283 But it does not have a fix version indicated. Does that mean the request is not considered significant to be included in 2.0??

===E-mail to course members===

==Course Building questions==

===Multiple file linking===

#Folder option works.
#Tick boxes?

===Multiple file upload===

#Using zip files: works, but are staff using it?
#Other

==Links to Content Management Systems==

The Moodle term is 'external repository' and an API is planned to enable access of a range of external possibilities.

====Copying File into Moodle====

====Linking to File from Moodle====

A scenario: Teacher linking to an external file as a new resource (think video repository)

# Teacher wants to display a file in the repository
# Teacher clicks the "Choose a resource" button
# Teacher is presented with a simple file picker to choose a file (with a menu to switch between multiple configured repositories)
# Teacher chooses a file in an external repository
# Link to the file is COPIED into Moodle and stored by the resource module
# Link is marked as owned by that user
# Whenever someone wants to follow that link, the resource module controls access (see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API Development:File API] )

https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Repository_API

Objectives:

1. Allow all Moodle users to easily bring content into Moodle from external repositories
2. Provide a consistent interface to any external repository, for any Moodle module

Forums: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807

Mr Cute (A fully finded JISC project) http://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute/ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/mrcute

"MrCute is an acronym for Moodle Repository Create Upload Tag Embed, and is intended as an optional Moodle module and block which allow direct and straightforward access to instititutional and other repositories of online learning materials."

==SORTED: Blog with comments==
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Blog_improvements

There is a lot of talk about blogs on the various forums in Moodle.org, and in particular the Moodle implmentation of them.

Particularly here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 and here:
#http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830&mode=3

There is an issue tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8776 but there doesn't seem to be any sort of focus to the discussion in the details. From the roadmap: comments are coming. What about the other suggestions in the tracker? Where do we find out what is coming and what is planned? How are decisions arrived at?

==Turnitin==
Dan Marsden: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin_Integration

==Problems==

===PDF downloading problems 1.9===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68270#p451284

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102742

===DOCX file handling===

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102716

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15987

===Ajax Drag and drop===

Drag and drop components - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12198

==Staff/student help==

"Stellar" moodle courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94854#p454017

What type of help is needed??

Online Course http://www.litteacher.com/