Moodle 2

Martin DougiamasLead Moodler

Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

Moodle 2.0

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Statistics

54,000 registered verified sites in 215 countries

Registered sites contain 37 million users,3.7 million courses and 1.3 million teachers

At least 500 sites have more than 10,000 users

Interface translated into 85 languages

54 specialised Moodle Partners

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9378

4530

3397 3282

23541870 1845

1360 1283 1213

USA Spain Brazil UK Germany Mexico Portugal Australia Columbia Italy

Locations

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Software

Moodle Economics

Institutions, companies and individuals needing commercial services

moodle.comFunded by Royalties

Discussion, Free Support etc

Development,Documentation etc

Active UserCommunity(50,000+)

Moodle.org

DeveloperCommunity

(250)

54 Support Companies Worldwide

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Our Community

moodle.org

Bugreports Ideas

Votes andDiscussion

QualityOpen Source Code InformationPriorities

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History

1999 0.0 First prototype versions

11 / 2001 0.9 First pre-release version on the web

8 / 2002 1.0 Forum, Survey, Journal, Resources, Quiz...

8 / 2003 1.1 Backups, Workshop, Chat, Scales...

3 / 2004 1.2 Filters, Groups, Glossary, Lesson ...

5 / 2004 1.3 Calendar, Blocks, RSS, Media plugins ...

8 / 2004 1.4 Installer, Resources, Enrolments, Wiki...

6 / 2005 1.5 XHTML, Themes, Blocks, Gradebook ...

6 / 2006 1.6 Unicode, Database, Docs, Blogs, Reports ..

11 / 2006 1.7 Roles, Admin, Oracle and MSSQL, AJAX ..

3 / 2007 1.8 Accessibility, MNet, Forms, Multi-auth...

3 / 2008 1.9 Gradebook, Outcomes, Performance, Tags, Notes..

7 / 2010 2.0 Biggest release yet

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Main Benefits in 2.0

•Security•Performance •Media management•Integrations•Usability•New Features

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Improvements/Rewrites

• File storage and handling • Roles and enrolments• Messaging• Backup and Restore• Gradebook• Blocks and Layout• Themes / AJAX / Interface• Comments and Ratings• My Moodle• Customisable User Profile pages• Workshop / Chat / Lesson / Quiz• Wiki / SCORM / Resources• Database access / data handling

2.0

Major New Features

• Navigation• Community hubs• Repository support• Portfolio support• Completion• Conditional activities• Cohorts• Web services API• Secure RSS feeds • IMS CC• Blog associations and comments• External blog support

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2.0

Demo

•Navigation / Blocks•My Moodle•Files•Repositories•Messaging•Blogs•Conditional Activities•Workshop•Community Hubs•Enrolments

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Development processes

Core Developers

Ideas

Developer

ModulesRepository

Patch for core

Bugs

Documentation,Support, API

Review

Users

Module MoodleCore

Review

Test

Submit

Patches and Modules

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Mobile Apps

• Uses Moodle 2.0 Web Services API (secure)

• Use camera on the fly and post photos to assignments, forums, database etc

• Update location field in profile to show on Google maps

• Store all profiles of people in course, like contact list, with pinchzoom on groups etc

• Full messaging, with notifications

• Calendar synch to phone

• Build on other Moodle mobile projects

• etc

• docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Mobile_app

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Moodle web sites

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2.1, 2.2, 2.3...

• Reworking all standard modules (usability and pedagogy)

• Assignment

• Forum

• Survey (merging with Questionnaire and Feedback)

• Choice

• Lesson

• Quiz etc

• Grading

• Integrating new modules (lots)

• Refinements in all areas based on your feedback

• Minimal changes to any core APIs

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Moodle 3.x

• Reconception from the ground up

• Years away

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