Development:Mobile app

Note: This article is a work in progress. Please use the page comments or an appropriate moodle.org forum for any recommendations/suggestions for improvement.

This page describes the official Moodle mobile phone app functionalities (for iPhone and Android, initially).

Dashboard

Functionalities are displayed with icons.

Media

• Take a photo/video/audio for an assignment
• Take a photo/video/audio and post as attachment to a forum for discussion
• Take a photo/video/audio and post to a database activity (including location)

Grades

• see grades
• grade assignments
• Download all assignments (eg pdfs), grade them offline, send back to students
• Give grades if it doesn't require much effort
• See grades (limited view)

Participants

Synch the participants of a course so we can have nice choose-lists of users in the app, like

• Contacts app
• Coverflow
• See list of my courses
• See list of my students per course

Attendance

Messages

• see messages from other people (private and forum)
• be able to answer a message

Calendar

• see my activities/assignements deadlines, specially the close ones
• See new submissions (teacher)
• See activities/assignements deadlines, with number of missing submissions

Moodle help

community chat / twitter

See also

• Using Moodle Moodle for mobile forum
• Mobile Moodle FAQ
• The UCLA model for web apps http://m.ucla.edu/about/