Martin Dougiamas

Next year it will become mandatory for online systems used in the EU to support the new GDPR laws:

• http://www.eugdpr.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Moodle will be right there with it. 

To get there, we basically need to:

1. Get together some legal experts who fully understand the new laws - PARTICULARLY IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATION.
2. Analyse the distance between what Moodle does now and what GDPR requires and develop a clear spec.
3. Do the work in Moodle code and documentation to make sure we are compliant. 
4. Become certified in a way that any Moodle site can use to show their compliance.

I'm highlighting the education side because I think there are some tricky considerations in a school, university or workplace that may not be obvious.  For example, a person removing all their forum posts from a discussion will completely disrupt the learning environment for everyone else.

This is not just a job for Moodle HQ, we really need the whole community to help rally around this and make it happen soon.

Who wants to help?  

Who knows of any existing initiatives or even funding available for this?  

Let's start pooling info here!

Peace,
Martin

Rob, I couldn't agree more.    Follow MDL-58943 

The issue where this was removed is here:  https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-57769

It contains the reasoning.  Have a read.  

IMO there at least needs to be a better UI on the topics and weeks page to add or delete more than one at once.

Thanks for getting engaged even at this very late stage guys.

As this is an MUA project (that they defined and funded) we're primarily engaging with them on this over at moodleassociation.org 

Of course, feedback from all stakeholders is also welcome on the tracker, although, as usual, a bunch of opinions on user interface are very difficult to weight and synthesise there.   This was one of the whole points of the MUA as a body, and our UX design process from some months ago,  to help define the specs that we've been working to address.

The team are working hard now on addressing new issues being raised.  Helen posted a good description of the phase we are in.

Well, it's in 3.2 now! 

You can look at moodle.org/demo (the demo link at the top of this page) for some demo sites.