Moodle 3.6 - Roadmap

Moodle 3.6 - Roadmap

by Sander Bangma -
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Hi All,

I've updated the roadmap page.  Below are the features currently in development for Moodle 3.6:

  1. Improvements to the Dashboard and Course Overview page. In particular the ability to handle large numbers of courses and activities. Planned improvements include new blocks with easy access to the most recently visited courses and activities, ability to favourite and hide courses, ability to load more courses onto one page and providing a separate timeline block.
  2. Introduction of group messaging. One-to-one messaging is already possible in Moodle and this will introduce the ability to enable group messaging for a course or any other group formed by the teacher. In line with our focus on protecting privacy, users will be given greater control over who is able to message them.
  3. Additional privacy features. Several improvements are planned to further enhance privacy and controls for users and their data. This continues on from the privacy features implemented in Moodle 3.5 for the European data privacy regulations: GDPR. The enhancements will include a more human friendly readable format of the data export, ability to perform an erasure request on previously (prior to Moodle 3.5) deleted users, improved control over the purpose and retention period for different types of activity modules, and more!
  4. Support for LTI 1.3. Following on from the LTI Advantage support that was introduced in Moodle 3.5 we are now introducing support for LTI 1.3. One of the key improvements in LTI 1.3 is enhanced security to protect user information with the introduction of OAuth2 authentication and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for message signing.
  5. Improvements to Quiz analytical tools. This is a project selected by the Moodle User Association (MUA) to simplify the way response statistics for random question pools are displayed. Further information can be found on the MUA page and in the tracker.
  6. Adding file and media support for assignment feedback. This will allow teachers to upload files and media when providing students with feedback on their work.
  7. Accessibility improvements. Inclusiveness for people with disabilities is the driver for this project and current work in this area is focused on improving accessibility of the Boost theme and Forum.

Sander

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Re: Moodle 3.6 - Roadmap

by Derek Chaplin -

Great news! Looking forward to seeing some upodates to the Forum module.

Some feature requests:

  1. Improve tags functionality.
    1. Currently, there doesn't appear to be a way to filter the discussion list by tag. A side block listing the Standard tags whereby the user could click on the desired tag filter would be very helpful. Alternatively a drop-down could be used but woukld be more cumbersome.
  2. Selecting Standard tags
    1. Currently the check box for selecting Standard tags on the Default Collection page is way over on the right side of the screen making it hard to see if you're choosing the correct tag. Moving the Standard check box over next to the Selection check box would fix this,
  3. Allow each forum to have it's own set of Standard tags
Thanks again for continually improving Moodle.
Derek
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