Slides from my keynote at Texas US Moodlemoot 2010

1. Moodle 2.0
Martin Dougiamas
Lead Moodler
Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

2. xkcd.com
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3. 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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4. Locations
9378
4530
3397 3282
2354
1870 1845
1360 1283 1213
USA Spain Brazil UK Germany Mexico Portugal Australia Columbia Italy
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5. Moodle Economics
Software Moodle.org
Development, Discussion, Free
Documentation etc Support etc
moodle.com
Funded by Royalties
Developer Active User
Community Community
(250) (50,000+)
54 Support Companies Worldwide
Institutions, companies and individuals needing commercial services
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6. Our Community
Votes and
Bug
Discussion Ideas
reports
moodle.org
Quality
Priorities Information
Open Source Code
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7. 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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8. Main Benefits in 2.0
•Security
•Performance
•Media management
•Integrations
•Usability
•New Features
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9. 2.0
Improvements/Rewrites Major New Features
• File storage and handling • Navigation
• Roles and enrolments • Community hubs
• Messaging • Repository support
• Backup and Restore • Portfolio support
• Gradebook • Completion
• Blocks and Layout • Conditional activities
• Themes / AJAX / Interface • Cohorts
• Comments and Ratings • Web services API
• My Moodle • Secure RSS feeds
• Customisable User Profile pages • IMS CC
• Workshop / Chat / Lesson / Quiz • Blog associations and comments
• Wiki / SCORM / Resources • External blog support
• Database access / data handling
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10. 2.0
Demo
• Navigation / Blocks
• My Moodle
• Files
• Repositories
• Messaging
• Blogs
• Conditional Activities
• Workshop
• Community Hubs
• Enrolments
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11. Development processes
Users Documentation,
Support, API
Bugs Ideas
Patch for core
Developer Core Developers
Review
Patches and
Modules
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Module Sub
Re Moodle
mit
Modules Core
Repository
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12. 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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13. Moodle web sites
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14. 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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15. Moodle 3.x
• Reconception from the ground up
• Years away
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