Future

As Moodle gains in maturity, its directions are increasingly influenced by the community of developers and users. A dynamic database of proposed features and their status can be found at moodle.org/bugs. Your contributions in the form of ideas, code, feedback and promotion are all very welcome - see the Developers manual for more details.

Overall development has currently slowed down a bit while Martin finishes his PhD thesis.

Here is a rough map of the future (subject to change):

Version 1.0.9 - May 29th, 2003

This release will contain all the many new features and bug fixes accumulated since 1.0.8.1.

Version 1.1 - August 2003 ?

This release will tie up some other loose ends and new modules such as 'chat' and the 'issue tracker'. It will probably include new features for backing up and restoring individual courses. It may have support for groups and group work.

Version 2.0 - December 2003 ?

This major release will include some major changes in internal structure designed to add flexibility and scalability in many areas. Among the major targets are:

• Stronger pedagogical support for both teachers and students
• Rewritten display layer using XHTML-compatible code and complete implementation of templates for increased standards-compliance, flexibility and accessibility.
• Wider use of PHP classes in key areas of the Moodle code, to make some things easier for programmers writing new modules or integrating with external systems.
• New access-control system allowing finely-defined roles and rights.
• Basic support for IMS and SCORM
• Whatever else comes along :-)

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