the world’s open source learning platform Moodle Mobile offline features Juan Leyva & Daniel

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Topics covered 1.How the app stores data for offline usage. 2.Resources offline support. 3.Activities offline support. 4.Course features offline support. 5.Site features offline support. 6.Future plans.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Data storage for offline ●When you visit a page/section in the app, the data retrieved from the server is stored for offline usage. ●This data is updated if you visit the same page 5 or more minutes later. ●You can update most pages doing a “Pull down to refresh”.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Data storage for offline ●When browsing a course, you can download all the resources in a section for offline usage via the “cloud” icon at the right. ●This will download all the resources in the course (file, page, folder, book, IMS CP, SCORM). ●Only the sections with downloadable resources show the “cloud” icon. ●It can be disabled by the user at app level.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Data storage for offline ●Inside a particular section you may also download specific resources. ●If the file size is big, you will be noticed prior to the download.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Data storage for offline ●Images and other media embedded are also downloaded for offline usage. ●For example: ○Images in labels or activities description. ○Images in the participants list. ○Your own profile image.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Data storage for offline Some important questions... Why doesn’t the app pre-fetch more data? Because the user may have a monthly data plan and also because the storage space may be limited.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Data storage for offline Some important questions… What happens with logging when the app is offline? The actions the user does when offline are not logged, supporting this would require changes in the Moodle logging system.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Resources offline support The following resources are available offline if the user previously downloaded them (or downloaded the complete section where they are): ●Book ●File ●Folder ●IMS CP ●Label ●Page

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Activities offline support Forum: The user can browse the first ten discussions in the forum if he had previously visited the activity. When the user accesses a forum, we pre-fetch the first ten discussions.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Activities offline support SCORM: The user can continue or start new attempts, the tracking data is synchronized when the user is back online.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Activities offline support Offline browsing of these activities is only available if the user previously opened them: ●Glossary ●Assignment ●Chat (only entry page) ●Choice ●Survey

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Activities offline support Others: Some resources or activities won’t work offline because they require to access information that is outside Moodle: ●URL ●External tool (lti)

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Course features offline support Offline browsing of these features is only available if the user previously visited them: ●Participants ●Grades ●Completion ●Notes

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Course features offline support Not supported offline right now: ●Course self-enrolment ●Course guest-access ●Add notes to participants

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Site features offline support Offline browsing of these features is only available if the user previously visited them: ●Messaging ●Notifications ●Calendar ●Private files

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Site features offline support Not supported offline right now: ●Course search ●Contact search ●Logging ●Upload files ●Send messages to users ●Add/Remove/Block contacts

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Future plans Most important, in the short-term, is to allow the user to interact with the app when he is offline and then synchronize the data, for example: ●Add new discussions in the forum. ●Reply to forum posts. ●Send private messages. ●Write user notes. ●Submit assignments.

Copyright 2016 © Moodle Pty Ltd - CC SA - the world’s open source learning platform Future plans Add additional options or changes in the UI to notify the user that there are data/actions pending to be synchronized. The user will have a list of data pending to be synchronized. The user will be able to force a full synchronization.

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