What is the next greatest thing Moodle should do next? Thoughts?
As a start, here is a summary of a question I posed on Keynote 1 to Mike -> https://2013.imoot.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=615
What is the next greatest thing Moodle should do next? Thoughts?
As a start, here is a summary of a question I posed on Keynote 1 to Mike -> https://2013.imoot.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=615
What about social media integration? In some instances people may want to syndicate to facebook group, twitter, linked in or foursquare, etc...
it could be a simple checkbox. Just an idea, particularly in the spirit of being more collaborative and integrative.
I am also up for having a grade view that allows you to download all of a students submissions. Sort of like and extension on the user report but it would enable you to download each students work as a collection. Excellent for auditing purposes, and record keeping. check out my recommendation - tracker ID
thanks for opening up this forum
@mundigoana
What would be GREAT for Moodle - and would open it up to vast areas of the planet where connectivity is not 100% (not just Africa, but also rural America, Australia, etc.) would be to allow offline access. If a student could cache assignments, resources, pages - even whole courses - and do their work while offline and then sync when back online, that would be huge.
Yes, I realize it would also be a huge amount of work...
Same here!!!
In India, we face the same problem when it comes to rural connectivity ..to say even in urban India. We launched a project - KonnectLive.com working with Telecom companies to deliver content to remote areas. We proposed a project to government costing $1 per child per month for access to K-12 content over wireless private network a year ago... it's still underway.
Hope to see good connectivity in rural parts.
Sushil
John, some years back we looked at this for a client (a one off contract when I was working for an educational institution). The scenario was no internet at all for periods, not even satelite.
We considered a "Moodle on a stick". The problem with your scenario is that to download a whole course when internet is bad could also be problematical.
However, given you could do something, you would not really need to "Sync back" just upload an assignment, which is not a big deal. You'd loose all the interaction and toing ad froing.
-Derek
Bring back the old Add Meta Link screen. The big dropdown to find 1 course in a list of 1000s is insane!
So true, but a shortcut to finding the course is to start typing the name of the parent course. You have to type fairly fast because if you are typing, say, "Accounting" and you pause after the A, by the time you get to the C it thinks you're looking for a word beginning with C (at least on our site).
Martin mentioned my top two in his keynote 2 already: total event logging for building analytics on, and mobile.
So I'd say a huge area is user centric dashboards that could do two things:
1) provide a locus for cooperative, group content creation - teacher/teacher, teacher/student, student/student- tools
Tim Hunt mentioned this as a direction for cooperative question bank building by teachers in an OER type fashion.
I worked for a while on Sakai3 (aka OAE) where built in authoring & sharing between researchers was a key component (it doesn't and probably won't ever be working) but the idea is a good one.
2) Provide a place to put site wide course overviews and reporting for both teachers and institutional (ie school) administrators to see things. The course centric reporting architecture is quite limiting now and part of the issue is there is no UI for such things.
OK. I hope this is not taking things at too low a level for you Gareth.
I'd like to see some attention given to basic admin functions for teachers and site admins.
A workflow approach, where we build in some simple solutions to some common admin activities, a few listed here:
All these are difficult and/or time consuming and yet are reasonably common *unless you are a big Moodle with authentication systems. Many have plugins. Many have several plugins. I'm sure a small amount of work could get these functions and a few more into core.
Open up a little discussion on Moodle.org, come up with our lists and do it.
In time for a possible LTR in 1.6 mabe?
-Derek
Checkout:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=190718
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_quickmail
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_configurable_reports
(You will have to ask for some technical help with the above SQL reports, I guess. Many reports are already available)
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_moodle_notifications
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_notifications
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=enrol_signup
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=auth_mcae
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=enrol_apply
ANYTHING that provides aggregate actions. Like the control of email accounts (finding and eliminating spam accounts). It was great when he made uploading groups of files easier, was it not? Lets see what other efficiencies can be created.
I am especially interested in reports. Would like Moodlers to see what the competition has in the way of auto reports and provide the same outputs BETTER. For example, I often need a list of who in a department or unit has completed compliance training, along with the expiration dates/due dates of those who are in need of a certain training. It would be great to send a set of participants reminder notes that their compliance training update is (or was!) due by a certain date.
More development of these components would make Moodle more competitive in the adult learning and workplace training sectors -- with great implications for ALL teachers and trainers regardless of student and course level.
Anything that saves teachers time.
A fully functional plugin that allows you to select what courses should report to you (online not by email) that there is submitted work/assignments to mark.
A better designed gradebook or one that is more customisable.
Checkout: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=190718
Exaclty. I mean never again having to hear "Teresa, HELP! I deleted my entire quiz I spent 8 hours on and can you get it back for me in time for class in 10 minutes! Puleeeeze. Argh!"
Even a limited implementation of undo for activity module deletions would be very valuable. Course deletions would be useful too.
Not to say this is just a normal user / teacher issue. I've never met an admin of any kind who doesn't have a "I can't believe I deleted that" horror story.
Contact the iMoot team
Some useful moodle links: