Roadmap

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Contents 1 Sloodle 0.21 2 Sloodle 0.3 3 Off-Roadmap 4 After Version 0.3

[edit] Sloodle 0.21

Released March 2008.

[edit] Sloodle 0.3

These are major changes to the way Sloodle worked for 0.21 (such as database alteration, changes to the way tools interact with Moodle, etc.). There is no definite timescale on this, but hopefully by the beginning/middle of Summer 2008.

1. Server-side updates:
   1. Instance-based Sloodle
   2. Authentication handled by Sloodle Controller
   3. Update LoginZone to work with Sloodle Controller
   4. Separate pending avatars from current avatars
   5. Updated object authorisation for Controllers
   6. Implement web-based object configuration
   7. Update classroom layouts to use object oriented API
   8. Fully implement auto-registration/enrolment
   9. Update module implementations:
      1. Distributor
      2. Chat
      3. Glossary
      4. Blog
      5. Quiz
      6. AviLister
      7. Choice
      8. PrimDrop
      9. Password Reset
   10. Add Moodle logging for Sloodle activities
2. In-World updates:
   1. Sloodle Set:
      1. Use new self-authorisation system
      2. Authorise rezzed objects itself
      3. Use new classroom layouts (still a little buggy though!)
      4. Allow more than 12 rezzable objects
   2. Other objects:
      1. Use "EOF" delimeter in configuration notecards
      2. Implement self-authorisation
      3. Fetch web-configuration
   3. Incorporate and release PrimDrop tool
   4. Improve quiz tool
      1. Allow menu-selection of quiz
      2. Question-at-a-time data retrieval
   5. WebIntercom improvements: (carried over from 0.21)
      1. Make it possible to remove yourself from the recording list by touching WebIntercom again
      2. Add capability to specify chatroom in notecard
      3. Add option to make WebIntercom operable by anybody in group (rather than just the owner)
   6. Improve Sloodle Toolbar
      1. Allow post visibility selection: public, site, or draft
   7. Fully implement auto-registration/enrolment
      1. IM users with their username/password
   8. Fully implement separate script-based translation of in-world tools
   9. Merge Sloodle Distributor with Inventory Box/Vending Machine

[edit] Off-Roadmap

These are items which are not part of the main roadmap, but which are in-development.

1. Incorporate and release Sloodle RSS Reader?
2. Allow Sloodle user management from in-world (i.e. change/remove your avatar registration)
3. Sloodle Choice
   1. Image-based (customized choice module)
4. Students Online Moodle block
5. Web-to-SL graphics/diagram editor (Malcolm Crowe)
6. Learning zone updates
   1. Demo 'pods' - more finished and self explanatory demonstration items (e.g. a mock 'toolbar' set to a dummy user account to allow people to blog to sloodle.org
7. Forum tools
   1. Visualisation
   2. Argument support
8. Toolbar updates
   1. Sound effects
   2. More gestures (e.g. pointing)
   3. Chat activated gestures?
   4. SL style gestures (chat/Function key activated)
   5. Spaces for user generated gestures
   6. Radar/chat range notifier
9. Object back up to Moodle database

[edit] After Version 0.3

Other random things for the future:

1. Tool re-organization
   1. Use current Sloodle Set paradigm?
   2. Integrate Set/rezzing functionality into Toolbar?
2. Quiz-authoring from in-world?
3. Blog:
   1. Tagging?
4. Tracking tools (integration of existing tools into Sloodle)
   1. Tracking
      1. Student movement around classroom/sim
      2. Behaviour and tool usage
   2. Statistical display
   3. Visualization
      1. In-world
      2. On website