Powerpoint summarising research into the viability/necessity of having a mobile app for our college.

1. Does VIVA College need to
develop a mobile app?
Presentation of the result of research
conducted by Colin Blackwell

2. Agenda
 Introduction
 Web Research Findings
 Staff & Student Survey Findings
 Feedback regarding MOODLE
 Conclusions
 Recommendations
 Q&A

3. Introduction
 Necessity of mobile app for
VIVA College?
 Research Methods
 Caveats

4. Web Research Findings
 Current issues in the area
 VIVA’s mobile web accessibility

5. Staff & Student Survey
Findings

6. Who responded?
Staff Responses
ELICOS Staff
VET Staff
Administration/Ma
rketing Staff

8. Is there a need for
something to address
mobile apps for VIVA?
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
Staff Students
Need
Don't need

9. Dedicated app Vs. Mobile
friendly website
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
90.00%
Staff Students
A dedicated i-
phone/Android
app tha may incur
a small cost
A website that is
easily accessible
by smartphones
and is free to use

10. Staff feature preferences

11. Student Feature
preferences

12. 34%
32%
22%
11% 1%
Breakdown of Student Importance ranking for VIVA
College Mobile App Features
Essential
Very
Important
Somewhat
important
Nice but
not necessary
Not necessary
at all

13. Feedback regarding
MOODLE
 Many students are not aware of the content VIVA
currently offers online through MOODLE.
 MOODLE (v2.0) has HTML5 capability.
 It will be sometime before many of the functional
apps we desire will come to be programmed and
released.
 In order to transfer information on course attendance
etc., an intermediary program is likely to be
necessary.

14. Conclusions
 1. Developing mobile web resources would be
the most cost-effective solution
 2. VIVA’s current web resources will need to be
upgraded
 3. Students and staff agree that VIVA should
have mobile web friendly resources and services
that do not add costs to users.
 4. The most requested features are currently
managed under RTO Manager and are not
presently publishable on MOODLE.

15. Recommendations
 - Conduct a financial review and ear-mark future funds
for implementation of a MOODLE 2.0 mobile web-friendly
online student portal providing all current services and
integrating student records of attendance, study progress
and alerts for upcoming classes, assessments and college
events with the project as a whole to be researched,
commissioned and completed by Dec 2014.
 - the College should script, cast and produce a
video/presentation of how to use current online facilities for
all current and future students of VIVA. This is to be
completed by February 2014.

16. Any Questions?