Moodle Mobile 2 session, moodlemoot spain 2015 in Mallorca

1. Moodle Mobile 2
Juan Leyva
@moodlemobileapp
@jleyvadelgado
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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:
● 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

3. Moodle Mobile
Moodle Mobile is the official mobile app for
Moodle
https://download.moodle.org/mobile/
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4. Martin
Dougiamas
Project
Leader
@moodler
Juan
Leyva
Team Leader
& Developer
@jleyvadelgado
Frédéric
Massart
Developer
@FMCorz
Daniel
Palou
Developer
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Mary Cooch &
Helen Foster
Documentation
@moodlefairy
@moodlehelen
Team
Barbara
Ramiro
Designer
Usuability
@Barbara_Ramiro

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What is Moodle Mobile for?
Moodle Mobile is an app aimed mainly at students and
teachers.
It connects to your Moodle sites as long as they allow it.
Its main purpose is to “read” data both in online and offline
mode.
Provides some native features not available using Moodle web
on a Mobile browser.

6. Features
Feature availability depends on:
● The Moodle site version
● Moodle Mobile additional features plugin
installed
● Settings and capabilities
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7. Additional features plugin
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Moodle plugin developed and maintained by Juan Leyva.
Adds new features to the Moodle Mobile app.
A Moodle 2.4 with the latest version of the plugin installed has the same
Mobile features available than a Moodle 2.9 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

8. Responsive design
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9. Multisite
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10. Course and contents
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11. Activities &
resources
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Supported
Partially supported

12. Resources (1): File, Folder, Label
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13. Resources (2): Page and URL
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14. Resources (3): Book
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15. Resources (4): IMS CP
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16. Activities (1): Forums
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17. Activities (1): Forums
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18. Activities (2): Assignments
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19. Activities (3): Choice
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20. Activities (4): Chat
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21. Activities (5): Survey
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22. Activities (6): External tool (LTI)
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23. View site, course and personal notes
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24. View activity and course completion
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25. Grades
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26. Participants
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27. My files and site files
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28. Upload files
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● Files are uploaded to private files.
● Recorded files are deleted after
upload.
● 4 common upload methods for all
OS.
● Specific upload method: upload
any kind of file.
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29. Upload files: Android
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30. Upload files: iOS
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31. Messages
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32. Calendar events
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33. Notifications
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34. Push Notifications
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35. Remote style customization
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https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_Themes
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36. Other features
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Take a personal note about a course participant.
Call a user, send him an email or locate his address on Google
Maps just by clicking the field in his profile.
Register actions on Moodle logs.
Support for sites using CAS or Shibboleth as auth methods *
Multi-language.
(*) Requires the Moodle Mobile additional features plugin to be installed.
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37. Custom apps
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38. Features comparison table
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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
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Roadmap
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Moodle 3.1
SCORM
Quiz
Glossary
Wiki

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Future platforms
Desktop
Windows 7 & 10, Linux and Mac
Currently available as experimental feature
https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Running_Moodle_Mobile_in_Desktop
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42. Responsive VS Mobile app
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Contribute to Moodle
https://moodleassociation.org/
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44. Thank you
Community: moodle.org
Commercial: moodle.com
@moodle
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