The Evolution of joule

One of the major benefits of Moodlerooms’ joule platform is it has two development roadmaps: that of Moodlerooms’ and that of open-source Moodle. Both of these roadmaps are short to allow for faster adoption of new ideas and developments rather than locking into innovations that may be obsolete by the time they are made available. Moodlerooms strikes a delicate balance between possessing a short-term product development plan and a long-term business plan regarding security, training and support services.

Moodle Roadmap

Moodle's current roadmap includes Moodle 2.0, slated for release mid to late 2010. Major feature changes include:

-File Handling Improvements
-Improvements to Organization of Courses
-Changes to Activity Modules
-Additional System Requirements

  • New Wiki module (nwiki)
  • Feedback module
  • Quiz module and question bank
  • Quiz report enhancements
  • Quiz navigation improvements for students
  • Flagging questions during a quiz attempt
  • Quiz editing interface improvements
  • Essay questions can now be randomized by random questions.
  • Question tagging and improved searching in the question bank
  • Administration page for question types
  • Regular Expression question type

-Improvements to Other Parts of Moodle

  • Gradebook improvements
  • HTML editor 2.0
  • Blog 2.0
  • Messaging 2.0
  • Secure RSS feeds
  • Backup 2.0
  • IMS Common Cartridge
  • Site-wide groups
  • Tagging of courses, activities and other things
  • AJAX for gradebook User Interfaces
  • General usability review - Moodle.com

-Administrative Improvements
-Internal Clean-ups

Moodlerooms Roadmap

Release 1.3. 8/2 /2010

eFolio integration
Mobile App
Conduit updates
Design Express updates

Release 1.5 and 2.1. 1/3/2011

Mobile Updates
Analytics: modeling from report data

Release 1.4 and 2.0. 10/4/2010

Three tiers of reporting capabilities.
Rich, flash-based drill-down reporting with standard and ad-hoc reporting.

Exclusive to 2.0
Joule using Moodle 2.0 base
Joule 1.0 features upgraded.

Release 1.6 and 2.2. 4/4/2011

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joule is a continuously growing platform with new features being added regularly to ensure you always have the innovation and functionality you need to meet your changing learning goals.

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Testimonial

“Our community wants a system that can be easily fine-tuned to meet the changing needs of the University. With Moodle we will be able to quickly utilize new tools and features and make them work in our environment.”

-Robin Ethridge
Director of Portal Technologies and Academic Analytics
Louisiana State University

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