Moodle February 2013

Futures

Martin Dougiamas
Lead Developer
Director of Moodle Pty Ltd

@moodler

Free Flexible

Why?

Personal Open
Copyright 2012 © Martin Dougiamas - CC SA

Moodle is not used well

80% of the teachers use
20% of the features
(educated guess)

Copyright 2010 © Martin Dougiamas

We know very little
about the actual
learning outcomes


Why the lack of use?

The tools can be MUCH better

2013

Back to the
classroom

Re-engineering education


Moodle HQ


Community Feedback
Partners
Forums

Tracker

Social media, blogs etc
Conferences


research.moodle.net


Hacktoberfest 2012
40 developers (all of HQ devs plus 20 others)
Brainstorming future tech developments
Deciding on architecture changes
Working on code together
5 days


Moodle HQ Focus

1. Core development
Usability
Feedback
Performance

2. Plugins
3. Community

Open Source Platform

Moodle
Repositories SIS
User contributions

Portfolios Authentication
Course design

Mods Plugins Payment Conferencing
Standards etc

Moodle Core Reports Plagiarism

Open Source Other Systems
Course Management System (Open Source or Proprietary)


Moodle 2.4
Performance
Moodle Universal Cache (MUC) to improve performance for large sites (and more)
New vector icons (SVG)
Completely new default icons for activities, blocks and actions, with SVG support.
Course formats
Rewritten to make course formats more flexible and pluggable
Plugins
Upgrade via web interface
Assignment
New features from Netspot et al like groups, blind marking etc
Calendar
Import iCal streams into the Moodle calendar
Enrolment
Sync cohorts to groups, many other fixes
Editor
Buttons are admin-configurable, plus new plugin type to add new buttons

Moodle 2.4 vector icons

Course: Moodle 2.4 Demo


Moodle 2.5 and 2.6

1. Performance
2. Feedback
3. Usability


Moodle Releases


Moodle 2.5 and 2.6
Performance in progress
Logging - very very fast and detailed system to log everything
Caching - implement fast caching all over Moodle
File plugins - makes Moodle faster on clustered servers (cloud)

Caches Logs


Moodle 2.5 and 2.6
Feedback tools in progress

Analytics/Reporting
a new framework for reporting and analytics

Outcomes stage 2
deep integration of outcomes/competencies

Open Badges
allows signed badges to be given and used externally

Notiﬁcations
via Mobile devices and other means


Moodle 2.5 and 2.6
Usability in progress
Mobile - Open source, cross-platform HTML5+JS client
will also aﬀect how Moodle looks on mobile
Course listings - A new interface for course/category management
Themes - new core themes with better responsive design for all screens
Forms - new library and also better progressive disclosure
Assignments - better GUI and oﬄine marking on mobile
Survey 2 - combining Survey, Questionnaire and Feedback
Forum 2 - Review ForumNG from OU as a complete replacement
Wiki 3 - Review OUWiki as a replacement for wiki in core


Course listings
Consistent styling and feel for courses on front pages
Developers: new classes for courses and categories
Separate interface for editing and browsing
New AJAX interface for course/category management


Forms 2.4


http://mm.cvaconsulting.com/app/#

2. Plugins

Plugins - like “apps” for Moodle OS
Easier for developers
Easier for users
Many improvements
since Moodle 2.0


Plugins Database


Plugins maintenance
Moodle 2.3 Notiﬁcations

Moodle 2.4 Upgrades
Download and upgrade completely via web

Moodle 2.5 Installs
Install to your site directly from plugins listing

Plugin Developer Docs


Plugin Translation


External “Plugins” (Plugouts?)

1. Simple links/embeds
2. Learning objects
3. IMS LTI
4. Web Services


3. Community
moodle.org
New site in construction. Simpler, more international structure. Better links to all below.

tracker.moodle.org
Being upgraded in December with new Jira.

docs.moodle.org
Continuing to grow - please contribute!

moodle.com
has been recently upgraded with more Partner information, videos

hub.moodle.org -> moodle.net
MOOCH will be migrating to moodle.net and be promoted better in 2013 as our OER and
possibly also a site for MOOCs.


Moodle future
An open, yet private, platform that:

• you can use for free, from any device
• scales to any size
• extends easily with plugins
• supports us in our teaching and learning
• provides a capable toolset for local implementation
• helps you perform high-quality learning research
and feedback to improve how you do things
• allows us all to contribute back to the global
community of educators to help others


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