Adapt Learning Community: Adapt Framework Roadmap (notes from the core developer meeting part 3)

At the core developer meeting we took the opportunity to collate a list of new features and functionality that have been requested for future versions of Adapt and put them together into a roadmap. Please see the fruits of our labour in the table below.

Feature	Description	Version
Multilang support	Add multiple language folders with initial language selector for translated course.	2.1
xAPI	Split Spore into separate plugins to support xAPI, SCORM and AICC	2.X
Build process enhancement	Enhance Grunt to add better handling for dependencies	2.1
Walkthrough extension	Plugin to provide initial information on how to use an Adapt course	2.X
Menu level locking	Add functionality to core to support menu locking	2.2
Responsive design	Ability to swap component type in or out based on screen size	2.X
Slider/Matching components	Both plugins have been identified as needing a code refactor	2.X
Start Controller	Facilitates single page courses with no menu	2.2
Theme restructure	Add key theme variables to core.	2.1
Glossary/Search extension updates	Extend functionality of plugins	2.X
Article Block Slider	Horizontal sliding component	TBC
Article Reveal	Show/hide for articles	TBC
Diagnostic/Role selector	Show/hide content based on role or user responses in diagnostic	3.X
Branching	Shallow branching of content based on question responses	3.X
Media component	Update when IE8 support dropped	3.X
Audio	Support for audio driven course content	3.X
Open Badges		TBC
Gamification	New plugins/extensions to add game functionality to Adapt courses.	TBC

As well as the new features, we discussed more fundamental changes that we would like to introduce with v3. Ideas included:

Evergreen browsers only: drop support for all versions of IE below IE11 but maintain v2 of the Framework to support older technologies
Transition to ES6; begin by writing in ES6 and transpile
Review use of Backbone and consider alternatives such as Polymer or Angular
Architectural restructure of Adapt to make the architecture more pluggable and have a core that is stripped back to a bare minimum.

As always we would love to hear your thoughts. Most especially, if you would like to get involved with the design or development of any new features we would love to hear from you; please get in touch by replying below or through the Gitter chat.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the post. This list looks really promising.

Theres a number of items on this list which Appitierre have already worked on, such as gamification, audio, menu level locking, and theme restructuring.

In terms of the architecture, rather than touching backbone, we’ve stuck with it, but begun changing the view rendering to React.js and seen massive improvements.

It would be really great to have a meet up after Christmas / new year to find out the best way of sharing this code and committing something back, as due to building the company we’ve been away from the core framework for a while.

It would be great for us to get involved again.

Feel free to drop Daryl or myself a mail on daryl.hedley@appitierre.com or wesley.atkinson@appitierre.com, or we can jump on gitter if it's easier?

Cheers

Wes

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Hi Wes, Daryl,

I would appreciate a meeting in person in the new year and will write to you privately to arrange this.

Sven

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Thanks Peter.

I'm really looking forward to some of the new features, especially Multiple language support, Role selector and branching.

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Hi Peter,

I like a lot of the features mentioned here. I do hope they will be made available for the Adapt Authoring tool. Looking forward seeing them in 2016!

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