Roadmap

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Sloodle Version 1.0

Tentatively scheduled for August

This was to be version 0.4.1 - but this will be in incremented to 1.0 instead to reflect stability of SLOODLE

Presenter review
1. Make editing more Moodle-like
2. Add multi-file upload
Quiz update
1. Download one question at a time
2. support for answer shuffling
3. Support for question order shuffling
4. Support multiple choice and true/false question types (only)
Usability Evaluation - Review and improve Moodle pages
1. Setting up the system and using it for students and teachers is simplified after systematic usability evaluations
2. when you configure something there should be some clear concise instructions to return to SL and download the configuration. Instead there is a page of meaningless-to-the tutor data. We should probably still show that for the instructors that will want to know it, but demote it)
Sets - Implement alternative arrangements
1. Includes a redesign of the standard set
  1. Improve Set menu system (lots of people get lost with it, not a good start)
  2. Stop using hardcoded textures, replace with textures set from contents (e.g. Intercom)
  3. Layouts revision. Edmund has already done a lot of work here, he'll need help getting it tested and ensuring it works and usability testing (see his post here)
Plugins and modules framework
1. Ulster Tasks
2. Due to dependencies that we have limited control over, Freemail will move to the Plug-Ins database
3. iBank may also be posted in the plug-ins database

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

Released April 2009

New tools/features:
1. Sloodle Slideshow (Presenter)
2. RSS Reader (Not released!)
3. Student Stipend Tool (not released!)
4. Course Selector (?)
5. (Possibly) Early quizHUD incorporation?
6. Classroom auto-rezzer (for fully configured Sloodle tools)
Updates:
1. Toolbar blogging to forum
2. MetaGloss:
  1. Configurable invocation command (e.g. other than just "/def ")
  2. MetaGloss output visibility (optionally llOwnerSay output)
3. PrimDrop:
  1. In-world feedback retrieval and/or auto-notification
  2. Submissions rezzer (for educator use)

Other random things for the future:

Tool re-organization
1. Use current Sloodle Set paradigm?
2. Integrate Set/rezzing functionality into Toolbar?
Quiz-authoring from in-world?
Blog:
1. Tagging?
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

Next minor release, not officially scheduled yet.

New Tools/Features:
1. Classroom rezzer (for standard classroom objects, such as desks and chairs)?
Updates:
1. Toolbar:
  1. Release "Toolbar Lite"
  2. More/improved gestures?
  3. Chat invocation of gestures
2. Sloodle Set changes:
  1. New design for easier navigation
  2. Make a "Standard" and "Extended" version (standard version omits rarely used tools)
3. Add Second Life map/landmark tools as new Moodle resource
4. Release Sloodle Image Choice (based on Moodle Choice, but non-viewable in Moodle?)
5. Improved Sloodle Choice accessibility
6. New tool designs (e.g. better Quiz Chair)

Released July 2008.

Released March 2008.

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

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
Object back up to Moodle database