Moodle Wishlist
This page is a brainstorm about a complete rewrite/refactor for Moodle 3.0.
Please add your ideas! They don't need to be consistent yet, just make sure your ideas are here to be boiled down later on.
Think Big!
One type of plugin
All plugins/modules could be subclassed from one plugin class, making installation easier and simplifying the API a lot.
Look at new framework
Possibly base Moodle 3.0 on new existing frameworks? Ruby on Rails? Drupal?
Drupal
There's an interesting discussion in the Language Teaching Course: How can Moodle be more of a social networking site? with some links to the Drupal in Education User Group. --Frank Ralf 14:27, 18 January 2009 (CST)
(I started a section about talk on my User talk page. --Frank Ralf 06:35, 21 January 2009 (CST))
There are some activities in the Drupal community regarding better interoperability and integration of Moodle and Drupal, see Drupal Quiz module - data exchange with other LMSes and Moodle integration with Drupal. --Frank Ralf 08:10, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Zend Framework
How about ZendFramework? It's open source, of course, runs on PHP, already has a pretty cool API with a well stocked service library, and the coders are working closely with Google, Adobe and Microsoft, among others, to produce some really high quality code. One feature I particularly like is that the main bulk of the PHP code is outside the public HTML directory. Since version 1.7 It also offers pretty good support for Flash Remoting (AMF0 and AMF3) making it especially easy to create integrated RIA frameworks. Check here to see what you get "out of the box". It looks like they've already done most of the hard work for you.
Moodlets
Individual-independent-activities backup/restore + metadata - Eloy
Support for alternate interfaces, mobile interfaces
Optimized for tablet computing: iPad, others Completely flash-based interface? Designed for offline clients?
Integrated category/taxonomy system
Putting together the "course categories", "tags" into a generic taxonomy system.
Save the 1970-2038 limitation
Those UNIX timestamps are pretty limited.
Translation framework
Drupal uses GNU gettext.po files for providing translations which is a very robust and well understood format.
Use PHP 5.3 Native Power
Like : PDO, SPL, Namespace, Intl, Phar... (Zend Framework 2 use it)
Make a replica Moodle
1 Moodle library, 100 Moodle platforms, just adding plugins and themes.
Built for Teacher-to-teacher Content Sharing
Drag-and-drop courses and course items from Moodle Hubs
Learn from LAMS and Dokeos
Integrated authoring system Drag-and-drop sequential scenario-building
Invent something crazily new
3-line ideas are welcome here:
- participation reward systems
