Future major features

For collaborating on specifications for major new features.

See also: Moodle development process and the Moodle roadmap

This forum is for collaborating on specifications for major new features. Let's aim for one discussion per feature, based on a detailed spec in the developer docs.

Note: This forum is NOT for suggesting new features. Please use the Moodle Tracker for all improvement and feature requests.

List of discussions. Showing 100 of 112 discussions
Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Element Library Locked	Damyon Wiese 30 May 2014	Mary Evans 22 Dec 2015	111
Boost theme in 3.2 Locked	Martin Dougiamas 18 Oct 2016	Rick Jerz 12 May 2017	79
Survey module refactoring for Moodle 2.5 Locked	Andrea Bicciolo 3 Nov 2012	Daniele Cordella 2 May 2017	54
New theme for Moodle 3.2 Locked	Damyon Wiese 10 Jun 2016	Brian Merritt 26 Sep 2016	51
MoodleRoom's proposed Outcomes changes Locked	Tim Hunt 21 Jan 2013	Jean FRUITET 10 Jul 2015	50
Reports in Moodle. What reports would you like to see? Locked	Adrian Greeve 28 May 2014	Karikalan Kumaresan 11 Jul 2016	43
User Tours Locked	Damyon Wiese 1 Jul 2016	Rex Lorenzo 24 Dec 2018	38
Simplify activity chooser Locked	Rex Lorenzo 30 Jan 2017	John Provasnik 25 Apr 2018	38
Conditional availability: Enhancements including OR conditions, plugins Locked	sam marshall 10 Feb 2014	Jeremy FitzPatrick 7 Jul 2014	36
User navigation mockup Locked	Adrian Greeve 12 Dec 2014	Damyon Wiese 27 Oct 2015	29
Custom fields and metadata Locked	Jenny Gray 7 Nov 2012	Elizabeth Dalton 29 Aug 2013	27
Any word on ForumNG thinking, like including in core 2+? Locked	Derek Chirnside 1 Feb 2012	Mark Ward 6 Nov 2012	25
New default icon set for Moodle 2.4 roadmap Locked	Gilles-Philippe Leblanc 7 Jun 2012	Dan Poltawski 2 Jan 2013	25
Improving editing icons on course page to avoid clutter Locked	Helen Foster 12 Oct 2012	David Scotson 12 Dec 2012	24
Feedback requested on new Logging specification Locked	Michael de Raadt 23 Aug 2013	Tomasz Muras 10 Mar 2014	24
Prototyping Editor 2.7 Locked	Jason Fowler 17 Dec 2013	Damyon Wiese 10 Feb 2014	24
Assignment Grading UX Locked	Damyon Wiese 4 Feb 2016	Marcus Green 7 Mar 2016	24
Forum reply by e-mail Locked	Andrew Nicols 12 Sep 2014	Brendan Heywood 8 Apr 2015	23
Should activity descriptions be required by default Locked	Tim Hunt 4 Feb 2015	Alexander Bias 14 Apr 2015	22
Automatic updates deployment Locked	David Mudrák 21 Sep 2012	David Mudrák 6 Mar 2013	21
Moodle Forums...... Locked	Mark Andrews 16 May 2013	Andrew Nicols 21 Sep 2015	21
Navigation overhaul Locked	Frédéric Massart ⭐ 30 May 2014	Mary Evans 24 Mar 2016	21
Displaying information to users on redirect Locked	Andrew Nicols 16 Feb 2016	Andrew Nicols 23 Feb 2016	20
Changes to course listings in 2.5 Locked	Marina Glancy 29 Jan 2013	Gareth J Barnard 4 Feb 2013	19
Do we need setting "Email display" - please share your thoughts Locked	Marina Glancy 6 Jan 2016	Enrique Castro 7 Jun 2016	19
We need a change Locked	Phuong Hoang 20 Dec 2015	Colin Fraser 23 Dec 2015	18
User dropdown menu Locked	Jetha Chan 9 Jul 2014	Jean-Luc Delghust 14 Jul 2014	17
Moving 'Reports' from the 'Navigation block' to the 'Settings block' Locked	Frédéric Massart ⭐ 5 Feb 2013	Ralf Hilgenstock 8 Feb 2013	16
Course formats refactoring 2.4 Locked	Marina Glancy 27 Sep 2012	Marina Glancy 29 Jan 2013	15
Oauth2 authentication in Moodle 2.4 and implication for Mnet for future versions Locked	Jérôme Mouneyrac 27 Sep 2012	Gian Luca Pallai 23 Aug 2015	15
Proposed changes to cache store in Moodle 2.9 Locked	Sam Hemelryk 12 Dec 2014	Jeff White 20 Mar 2015	15
Moodle 3.2 removing blocks? Locked	Mike Churchward 24 Mar 2016	Richard Oelmann 12 Jul 2016	15
Community Meeting re: Office integrations Locked	Damyon Wiese 19 Jan 2017	Nadav Kavalerchik 22 Feb 2017	15
Usability Changes to Forms and Module Selection for Review (demo included) Locked	Andrew Nicols 6 Dec 2011	Ruslan Kabalin 22 Mar 2012	14
What events would you be intrested in monitoring? Locked	Ankit Agarwal 6 Jun 2014	John Provasnik 8 Dec 2015	14
Current minor features Locked	Derek Chirnside 25 Jan 2013	Derek Chirnside 8 Feb 2013	13
Moodlerooms Proposed Comments User Interface Updates Locked	Jason Hardin 7 Feb 2013	Jason Hardin 2 Mar 2013	13
Activity Chooser enhancement - searchability! Locked	Andrew Nicols 4 Jan 2013	Andrew Nicols 18 Jan 2013	11
User message tray Locked	Pau Ferrer Ocaña 17 Dec 2014	Fernando Acedo 2 May 2016	11
Heads up - improvements to tagging Locked	Jon Bolton 3 Mar 2017	Chris Kenniburg 28 Mar 2017	11
Option to Comment on Posted Content Locked	Sali Kaceli 7 Oct 2016	Sali Kaceli 27 Oct 2016	10
We will probably drop support for IE8 in Moodle 2.5 (June 2013) Locked	David Scotson 4 Feb 2013	Martin Dougiamas 26 Sep 2013	9
Try out section menus for 3.0 and give your feedback Locked	Dan Poltawski 23 Sep 2015	Dan Poltawski 28 Sep 2015	9
Activity Grading Interface Locked	Jason Hardin 22 Mar 2013	Jason Hardin 13 Dec 2013	8
Moodle and its GUI Locked	Frankie Kam 28 Jul 2013	Gavin Henrick 26 Aug 2013	8
Repository plugin for direct audio/video recording into Moodle Locked	Guido Gautsch 22 Oct 2012	Rex Lorenzo 7 Nov 2012	7
Future Development of Assignment Locked	Matt Lingard 19 Feb 2013	Jason Hardin 29 Apr 2013	7
Replacement for the course and category management pages Locked	Sam Hemelryk 1 Mar 2012	Simon Coggins 27 Sep 2013	6
Logging API (option to move logs out of database) Locked	sam marshall 11 Feb 2013	Tim Hunt 27 Feb 2013	6
jQuery support for add-ons Locked	Petr Skoda 20 Mar 2013	Conn Warwicker 6 Jan 2014	6
Atto wins! What now for TinyMCE? Locked	Justin Hunt 7 Feb 2014	Derek Chirnside 1 Apr 2014	6
User account security improvements Locked	Petr Skoda 24 Oct 2014	Tim Hunt 28 Oct 2014	6
3.2 new required minimum PHP version Locked	Randy Thornton 9 Nov 2016	Fernando Oliveira 4 Jan 2017	6
New geographical map API Locked	Dave Balch 11 Dec 2013	Dave Balch 13 Nov 2014	5
Request for comments - new logging API Locked	Petr Skoda 29 Dec 2013	Petr Skoda 14 Jan 2014	5
Grader Report UI Updates Locked	Andrew Nicols 16 Sep 2014	Sali Kaceli 14 Jan 2015	5
Pluggable Search Engines Locked	Phil Lello 4 Nov 2014	Tomasz Muras 9 Jan 2015	5
BlockChain Locked	Richard Oelmann 9 Jun 2016	Justin Hunt 28 Dec 2016	5
Activity Learning flow: blocks not pages Locked	Tom Cotton 21 Nov 2016	Tim Hunt 1 Dec 2016	5
Activity Stream for Moodle ? Expanding Social Learning Concepts Locked	Ralf Hilgenstock 15 Jul 2018	Ray Lawrence 2 Aug 2018	5
Drawer vs. Blocks in Boost Theme	Susan Peck 7 Jan 2020	Rajiv Sathian 16 Apr 2020	5
Contrib migration into Core Locked	Joshua Bragg 3 Jan 2013	Joshua Bragg 4 Jan 2013	4
Activity Extensions for Moodle - MDL-37505 Locked	James McLean 14 Jan 2013	Damyon Wiese 1 Mar 2013	4
Proposal/questions: Support for "cloning" assets Locked	Brad Smith 20 Jul 2013	Simon Coggins 6 Aug 2013	4
Moodle's Global Search Locked	Prateek Sachan 24 Sep 2013	Luis de Vasconcelos 20 Feb 2014	4
New: prototype.moodle.net Locked	Martin Dougiamas 17 Dec 2013	Derek Chirnside 20 Dec 2013	4
New Feature: Export since filter on grade exports Locked	Simey Lameze 29 Aug 2014	Ileana Bladé Mendoza 16 Jun 2015	4
Lesson user and group overrides Locked	Jean-Michel Védrine 3 Jan 2015	Itamar Tzadok 8 Jan 2015	4
File system abstraction Locked	Andrew Nicols 10 Feb 2017	Dan Poltawski 13 Feb 2017	4
Task logs Locked	Andrew Nicols 6 Dec 2018	Andrew Nicols 28 Jan 2019	4
Forum notification improvements Locked	Andrew Nicols 4 Jul 2013	Mark Andrews 20 Sep 2013	3
User disguises (MDL-1071) Locked	Andrew Nicols 25 Feb 2016	Damyon Wiese 1 Jul 2016	3
Office Integration Issue Discovered Locked	Chris Kenniburg 21 Mar 2017	Chris Kenniburg 28 Mar 2017	3
Rollover - handling end-of-year processes for recycling and archiving courses Locked	Klaus Steitz 7 Sep 2015	Séverin Terrier 7 Sep 2015	2
A problem with the policy around activity completion Locked	Tim Hunt 12 Jan 2016	Tim Hunt 12 Jan 2016	2
Convenience tables for mapping integer constants Locked	Peter West 30 Oct 2016	Peter West 1 Nov 2016	2
File Conversion API Locked	Andrew Nicols 17 Feb 2017	Alistair Spark 28 Feb 2017	2
Participants vs enrolled users Locked	Jean-Roch Meurisse 3 Mar 2017	Chris Kenniburg 28 Mar 2017	2
Suggested Feature Locked	John ICS 11 Oct 2017	John ICS 12 Oct 2017	2
feature to limit several fields and fields'categories to role/user Locked	pierre REMY 1 Jul 2019	John Papworth 17 Oct 2019	2
USER BOOKMARK- SUGGESTED FEATURE	Dnyaneshwar Somwanshi 29 Jan 2020	Dnyaneshwar Somwanshi 30 Jan 2020	2
Redesign Activity Chooser Locked	Jez H 30 May 2014	Dave Dallo 6 Jun 2014	1
Theme widget API? Locked	Richard Oelmann 22 May 2016	Chris Kenniburg 25 May 2016	1
Messages and Notification Improvements Locked	Damyon Wiese 1 Jul 2016	Jean-Roch Meurisse 16 Jan 2017	1
LTI Improvements for 3.2 Locked	Damyon Wiese 4 Jul 2016	Mary Evans 3 Aug 2016	1
Archive scales	Tue Korsgaard 19 May 2020	Stuart Mealor 20 May 2020	1
Preventing blocks from being deleted Locked	Tim Hunt 10 Oct 2012	Tim Hunt 10 Oct 2012	0
New Moodle Mobile official app Locked	Helen Foster 16 Nov 2012	Helen Foster 16 Nov 2012	0
Navigation Locked	Derek Chirnside 16 Apr 2013	Derek Chirnside 16 Apr 2013	0
Individual Learning Plans - Assigning activities to Students individually Locked	Ralf Hilgenstock 10 Jun 2013	Ralf Hilgenstock 10 Jun 2013	0
New Editor for 2.7 Locked	Jason Fowler 15 Nov 2013	Jason Fowler 15 Nov 2013	0
Should we add the OU drag-drop question types to Moodle 2.7? Locked	Tim Hunt 4 Feb 2014	Tim Hunt 4 Feb 2014	0
about user management Locked	kemal cilavdaroglu 11 Mar 2014	kemal cilavdaroglu 11 Mar 2014	0
Feedback for new opportunity - Mark as all read Locked	Koulla Antoniou 28 Mar 2014	Koulla Antoniou 28 Mar 2014	0
Expanding logging (and events) coverage in 2.8, please add/vote Locked	Marina Glancy 6 Jun 2014	Marina Glancy 6 Jun 2014	0
Changes landing in the Quiz activity Locked	Tim Hunt 5 Sep 2014	Tim Hunt 5 Sep 2014	0
Replace "Show course tags" block setting with proper course tags Locked	Marina Glancy 17 Aug 2015	Marina Glancy 17 Aug 2015	0
Combine event monitoring with role capabilities Locked	Kathrin Osswald 16 Nov 2015	Kathrin Osswald 16 Nov 2015	0
Plans for supporting moodle additional (contributed) plugins in the Mobile app Locked	Juan Leyva 31 Mar 2016	Juan Leyva 31 Mar 2016	0
Let me know in which quizzes a question is used so far Locked	Heinz Mutzner 8 Jun 2016	Heinz Mutzner 8 Jun 2016	0