Moodle Docs: Future

# Future

> As Moodle gains in maturity, its directions are increasingly influenced by the community of developers and users. A dynamic database of proposed features and their status can be found at moodle.org/bugs. Your contributions in the form of ideas, code, feedback and promotion are all very welcome - see the Developers manual for more details. You can also pay to have certain features developed sooner- see moodle.com/development for information and a quote.

> Here is our current vision of the future, though this is always subject to change depending on sponsors and developers.

> ### Version 1.4 - August 31st

> > This release contains a lot of structural improvements and refactoring in key modules. It also includes many interface improvements. Some highlights include:

> > - New Enrolments architecture allows all manner of new automated enrolment processes. Included are a Paypal system (for paid courses) with instant access, arbitrary external database usage, parsing of flatfiles dumped from legay systems and so on.
> > - Improved Resource handling with a new one step process and better control over display format. New resource types can be developed as plugins.
> > - Refactored Quiz module allows new question types as plugins. A new question type called Calculated Questions allows questions to be presented uniquely to each student.
> > - Chat module now supports an optional chat daemon as a backend, providing near-instant response to hundreds of users.
> > - Improved Glossary module makes it easier to develop new glossary formats.
> > - Improved Backup handles the translation of user content (such as links) better than ever.
> > - Improved SCORM module handling an ever-wider range of SCORM content.
> > - Improved interfaces for adding students, course creators and administrators.

> ### Version 1.5 - Later in 2004

> > This release will focus mainly on the display layer and making Moodle fully compliant with important web accessibility standards such as WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US).

> > - Completely rewritten display layer that completely separates presentation from application logic
> > - Templating system with templates conforming to XHTML 1.0 for accessibility
> > - Powerful system of Cascading Style Sheets designed for cross-platform compatibility.

> > As with most Moodle releases there will also be an array of new community-developed features and modules.

> ### Version 2.0

> > This major release will contain some exciting developments in making Moodle more network-aware, with a natural evolution of Moodle's focus on collaboration. More on this here later.

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