Moodle Mobile app - MoodleMoot Spain 2014

Moodle Mobile app

Juan LeyvaMoodle Mobile Developer

@jleyvadelgado

@moodlemobileapp

#mootes14

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:

● 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

Disclaimer

Moodle Mobile is the official mobile

app for Moodle

https://download.moodle.org/mobile/

Moodle Mobile

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)

Development

● 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:

● The Moodle site version

● Moodle Mobile additional

features plugin installed

Features

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)

Assignments / tests* (Opens in browser)

● 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

Additional features plugin

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

Moodle Mobile milestones

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

Releases

Notifications

Remote style customization

Custom apps

“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

Mobile strategy going forward

Upload assignments to Moodle

Desktop (Windows 7, Linux and Mac)

Currently available as experimental feature

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

obile_in_Desktop

Firefox OS

The new full OS for mobile

Future platforms

● 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...)

How you can contribute

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

Thanks for your time!