Moodle mobile app presentation (MoodleMoot New Zealand 2014)

1. Moodle Mobile app
MoodleMoot 2014 New Zealand

2. 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

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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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.

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Demo
View demo in simulator
Requires Chrome or Safari
Site URL: mmtest

12. Features: Notifications

13. Features: Remote style customization

14. 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)

15. Upload any type file to Moodle

16. 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 OS
The new full OS for mobile

17. Development: Moodle Mobile Simulator

18. 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...)

19. 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