Orlando Moodlemoot USA 2009

Developing Moodle 2.0 Martin Dougiamas Lead Moodler Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

Open Source Software Basic rights Free to download Free to use Free to explore, modify and extend Free to distribute (under GPL) And you are also... Free to help with development Free to choose your service supplier Free to run a business using it Free to use something else! Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

Statistics Over 45,000 registered veriﬁed sites in 210 countries Registered sites contain 30 million users, 3 million courses and 1.2 million teachers About 500 sites have more than 10,000 users Interface translated into 75 languages 54 specialised Moodle Partners Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Community roles There are over 740,000 registered participants in the Moodle Community at moodle.org (about 1000 new accounts being created each day) Other 8.0% Software Devs 8.0% Teachers 35.0% Researchers 11.0% Educational Admins 16.0% System Admins 22.0% Source: Moodle Community 2008 Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Moodle Economics Clients (Institutions, Government, Companies, Teachers) Services Contracting Royalties n atio ns moodle.com Do Contributing Contributing Community Developers Code Discussion etc moodle.org Software Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

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.. ? 2.0 ? Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

2.0 Major Rewriting Major New Features •Database access / data handling •Repository integration •File storage and handling •Portfolio integration •Roles and enrolments •Conditional activities •Messaging •Course completion •Backups •Progress Tracking •Gradebook and Roles •Feedback module •Navigation and Blocks •Blog 2.0 •Themes •Resources 2.0 •Text formats •Site-wide groups •Commenting •Secure RSS feeds •Javascript handling •Web Services API •Workshop 2.0 •IMS CC •Wiki 2.0 •Community Hubs •Lesson 2.0 •Totally ﬂexible user ﬁelds Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Themes Consistency throughout all pages Better separation of code from design Allow templates if desired Increased ﬂexibility Make designers happier MORE BEAUTY!!!! Administration Control Integrations Usability Pedagogy Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Web Services API SOAP External XML-RPC Server Application REST Moodle Core Functions AMF External Client Application Administration Control Integrations Usability Pedagogy Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Community Hubs Ordinary Moodle site Building a course Taking a course Template User Community User Restore In Search Search Download E D 2 Publishing site Course Community site List C 3 Enrol cache zip Backup B A 1 Enrollable course Downloadable course Register as Register as enrollable downloadable Moodle Hub Server eg hub.moodle.org Administration Control Integrations Usability Pedagogy Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

Moodle long-term future Moodle 2.0 Rewrite of the underlying platform Infrastructure, connectivity etc Moodle 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 .... 2.x Pedagogy, teaching, learning, usability And then ... Single web service, perhaps? Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

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