Moodle Mobile app current status and roadmap

1. Moodle Mobile app
Juan Leyva
Moodle Mobile Developer
@jleyvadelgado
@moodlemobileapp
#mootes14

2. 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

3. Moodle Mobile is the official mobile
app for Moodle
https://download.moodle.org/mobile/
Moodle Mobile

4. 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

5. ● 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

6. ● 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

7. Features availability
depends on:
● The Moodle site version
● Moodle Mobile additional
features plugin installed
Features

8. 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)

9. ● 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Notifications

13. Remote style customization

14. Custom apps

15. “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

16. 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

17. Upload assignments to Moodle

18. 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

19. ● 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

20. 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!