Moodle Mobile app Juan Leyva
Moodle Mobile Developer
@jleyvadelgado @moodlemobileapp
#mootes14
Disclaimer
This presentation is about the official app for Android, iOs, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8
If you are more interested in using mobiles to support learning with Moodle, see: â—? â—?
http://www.slideshare.net/epictalk/20-tips-for-mobile-learning-in-moodle http://www.slideshare.net/epictalk/using-mobiles-to-support-active-learning-with-mobile
Moodle Mobile Moodle Mobile is the official mobile app for Moodle https://download.moodle.org/mobile/
Development Moodle HQ Team ● Martin Dougiamas (Benevolent dictator) ● Juan Leyva (Developer) ● Frédéric Massart (Developer) ● Barbara Ramiro (Designer) ● Helen Foster & Mary Cooch (Documentation) CV&A Team ● Josep Maria Gifreu (Designer) ● Costantino Cito (Moodle developer) ● Daniel Palou (Mobile developer)
Features ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Responsive design for phone and tablets Upload a picture into your private file area Record an audio file and upload it into your private file area Record a video and upload it into your private file area Send a private message to a course participant (can be done offline) Take a personal note about a course participant (can be done offline) Add a course participant to your phone contact Call a course participant touching the phone number Locate a course participant address on Google map Download and view some course resources
Features ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Quick access to your course contents View calendar events Mobile Push notifications Remote layout/style customization (see below) View all your past private messages and notifications View forum discussions and posts Browse and download your site and private files * Support for sites using CAS or Shibboleth as auth methods * View your activity grades and outcomes in a course
Note: All features indicated (*) require the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin to be installed.
Features Features availability depends on: â—? The Moodle site version â—? Moodle Mobile additional features plugin installed
Features comparison table Phone and tablets
Upload pictures, audio, video
View course contents
Calendar events
Push notifications
Remote style configuration
Messaging
Forum discussions
Grades view (student)
Grades view (teacher)
Additional features plugin ● Local plugin for adding new features to the current Moodle Mobile app ● This add-on provides new features and also web services which are currently only available in the latest Moodle version ● A Moodle 2.4 installation with the plugin has the same Mobile features available than a Moodle 2.8 installation ● Extra features: Support for sites using SSO authentication methods (Shibboleth and CAS) ● A new Moodle Mobile major version requires to upgrade this plugin in your Moodle installation. https://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_Mobile_additional_features
Moodle Mobile milestones April 2013 ● Moodle Mobile 1.2.1 (first release) February 2014 ● Localization (Spanish (ES, MX,...), Catalan, French, Italian...) March and May 2014 ● Notifications for iOS, Android and Calendar Events June 2014 ● SSO Support (CAS, Shibboleth) ● Support for the local_mobile (Additional features) plugin ● Private messages and notifications retrieval from the site July 2014 ● View your grades and outcomes ● New sign in and manage accounts screens October 2014 ● Forums discussions and posts view
Releases Major releases (1.5, 1.6) ● Includes new features, bug fixes, improvements, language packs updates, etc… ● Usually, new features requires the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin to be installed in your Moodle site to work. Minor releases (1.6.1) ● Includes bug fixes, improvements, language packs updates Release time: ● A new version per-month
Notifications
Remote style customization
Custom apps
Mobile strategy going forward “It is important to know that the app will never be able to support all the functions of Moodle, because Moodle is a huge fast-moving target and writing secure web services (which is how the app communicates to Moodle) takes a long time to do properly. This is a tradeoff that we had to make, and we know it may disappoint some users who want this app to do everything immediately!” “We focus on the communication aspects, plus content features that work best in an offline mode.” Martin Dougiamas
Mobile strategy going forward 1. Internal messaging compete support (whatsapp/telegram style). 2. Full calendar integration with warning reminders as notifications 3. Assignment submission, view and grade support. 4. SSO with Moodle 5. Migrate to Ionic framework
Upload assignments to Moodle
Future platforms
Desktop (Windows 7, Linux and Mac) Currently available as experimental feature https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Running_Moodle_Mobil Firefox OS The new full OS for mobile
How you can contribute ● Translating the app using AMOS (lang.moodle.org) ● Rating the app in the Google Play, iTunes, Windows store with five stars please :) ● Giving feedback in the forums or tracker ● Funding new features (SCORM player, etc...)
Thanks for your time!
You have more information here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Mobile_app https://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_Mobile_additional_features http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MOBILE