Moodle mobile (MoodleMoot New Zealand 2014)

Moodle Mobile app

MoodleMoot 2014 New Zealand

Who am I?

Juan Leyva:

Moodle & Moodle Mobile developer at Moodle HQ

Based at Barcelona (the Mobile World Capital)

Developer of plugins:● Configurable Reports● jmail● LTI Provider

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)● Barbara Ramiro (Designer)● Helen Foster & Mary Cooch (Documentation)

Contributors● Josep Maria Gifreu, CV&A Consulting (CSS, layout)● Daniel Ramirez, CV&A Consulting (Windows 8 versions)● Daniel Palou, CV&A Consulting (bug fixes)

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)

● * Support for sites using CAS or Shibboleth as auth methods

● * View all your past private messages and notifications

● * View your activity grades and outcomes in a course

● * Browse your site and private files

Note: All features indicated (*) require the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin to be installed.

Features

Features availability depends on:

1. The Moodle site version2. Moodle Mobile additional

features plugin installed

Moodle Mobile 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 2.7 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

Moodle Mobile milestones

April 2013● Moodle Mobile 1.2.1 (first release)

February 2014● Localization (Spanish (ES, MX,...), Catalan, French, Italian, Dutch...)

March and May 2014● Notifications for iOS, Android and Calendar Events

May 2014● Notifications for Android

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

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

Demo

View demo in simulator

Requires Chrome or SafariSite URL: mmtest

Features: Notifications

Features: Remote style customization

Mobile strategy going forward

1. View forums online and offline (October 2014)

2. Upload any type file to your Moodle private area using the app

3. Assignment viewing and grading

4. Desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows 7) and other platforms (Firefox OS)

Upload any type file to Moodle

Future platforms

Desktop (Windows 7, Linux and Mac)Currently available as experimental feature

https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Running_Moodle_Mobile_in_Desktop

Firefox OSThe new full OS for mobile

Development: Moodle Mobile Simulator

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/27/en/Mobile_app

https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Moodle_Mobile_additional_features

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MOBILE