manual</a> for more details. You can also pay to have certain features developed sooner- see <ahref="http://moodle.com/development/"target="_top">moodle.com/development</a> for information and a quote. </p>
<p>Here is our current vision of the future, though this is always subject to change depending on sponsors and developers. </p>
<p>This release contains a lot of structural improvements and refactoring in key modules. It also includes many interface improvements. Some highlights include:</p>
<li>New <strong>Enrolments</strong> architecture allows all manner of new automated enrolment processes. Included are a Paypal system (for paid courses) with instant access, arbitrary external database usage, parsing of flatfiles dumped from legay systems and so on.</li>
<li>Improved <strong>Resource</strong> handling with a new one step process and better control over display format. New resource types can be developed as plugins. </li>
<li>Refactored <strong>Quiz</strong> module allows new question types as plugins. A new question type called Calculated Questions allows questions to be presented uniquely to each student.</li>
<li><strong>Chat</strong> module now supports an optional chat daemon as a backend, providing near-instant response to hundreds of users. </li>
<li>Improved <strong>Glossary</strong> module makes it easier to develop new glossary formats. </li>
<li>Improved Backup handles the translation of user content (such as links) better than ever. </li>
<li>Improved SCORM module handling an ever-wider range of SCORM content. </li>
<li>Improved interfaces for adding students, course creators and administrators. </li>
<p>This release will focus mainly on the display layer and making Moodle fully compliant with important web accessibility standards such as WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US). </p>
<p>This major release will contain some exciting developments in making Moodle more network-aware, with a natural evolution of Moodle's focus on collaboration. More on this here later. </p>
