GSOC/2016

An overview of the Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Moodle. For more details, see the GSOC 2016 course at dev.moodle.org.

Plugin skeleton generator

The project’s aim was to make developing plugins a much easier task. A new tool was designed and implemented by the GSOC student. Based on coding techniques used by existing plugins, on the guides and specifications found in the Moodle developer documentation, as well as on the user’s input, the new tool generates skeleton code that can be used to build new Moodle plugins.

• Project status: Successfully passed
• Project output: Moodle plugin accepted into the Moodle Plugins directory: https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_pluginskel
• Documentation: Plugin skeleton generator docs page
• Student: Alexandru Elisei
• Mentor: David Mudrák
• Detailed project spec page: tool_pluginkenobi

Adding search to more Moodle components

• Student: Devang Gaur
• Mentor: David Monllaó

Atto image resize/crop/rotate

• Student: Joey Andres
• Mentor: Mark Nelson

Add support to end-to-end testing in the Mobile app

The project's aim was to add more end to end tests to the Mobile application. Supun developed almost 30 new tests that were integrated in Moodle Mobile.

• Student: Supun Wanniarachchi
• Mentor: Juan Leyva
• Original branch with the new tests
• Related issues: MOBILE-1864 AND MOBILE-1179
• Project documentation

See Also

Moodle announces GSoC participants