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User:Derek Chirnside

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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:

  1. cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
  2. blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
  3. themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
  4. better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
  5. filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
  6. 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.

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.  :)

  1. Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
  2. Forum: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74103
  3. 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

Repository Discussion: files management

Blog Posts

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

Discussions

  1. Alfresco/repository: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168495#p739240
  2. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152694
  3. 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

  1. Forum Post: 2006 - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45359
  2. Documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_permissions
  3. 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 Pages

MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LINK/UPLOAD SIMPLIFICATIONS

Forum posts

  1. 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: