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Moodle Mobile is the Moodle official mobile application for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone & 8.1, developed and maintained by Moodle HQ. It's available in Google Play, Apple Market, and Windows App Stores. Note that the app requires Moodle versions 2.4 and later and works with Android 4.1 and iOS 7.
=== Features ===
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            <h4>See your courses at glance</h4>
            <p>Your courses are listed with easy access to contents, participants, grades and notes. A useful filter field lets you find a particular course quickly. '''New:''' If your token expires during a session, you're prompted to re-enter your password and continue. </p>
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            <h4>Connect with course participants</h4>
            <p> '''New:''' Infinite scrolling improves access to the participant view, with the complete user profile now displayed and available from every page. </p>
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==On the move with Moodle==
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[[File:Mobile orientation.png|thumb|Access your Moodle course on your mobile]]
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            <h4>Pull to refresh ('''New''')</h4>
            <p>Most screens will allow you to pull to refresh, improving the experience of real time participation</p>
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            <h4> Orientation and Resolution support </h4>
            <p>The app displays well whethe in Portrait or landscape, IOS or Android and whatever your screen resolution.</p>
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With the official mobile app for Moodle, you can


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* Browse the content of your courses, even when offline
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* Receive instant notifications of messages and other events
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* Quickly find and contact other people in your courses
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* Upload images, audio, videos and other files from your mobile device
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* Track your progress, mark tasks as complete and browse your learning plans
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* Attempt quizzes, post in forums and edit wiki pages
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* View your course grades
            <h4>Easily access course  content</h4>
            <p>View course activities and and download materials for offline use. '''New:''' Work through Books and IMS Content packages directly in the app, and use the local mobile plugin to make Choices and engage in live chat sessions (simple or Ajax.) Resources downloading status is preserved even when changing sections or pages.</p>
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            <h4>Activity completion ('''New''')</h4>
            <p>Progress can be tracked now from your device with the arrival of the Activity completion functionality in the app. Automatic completion is registered, and students can also manually mark a task complete on their mobille.</p>
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... and lots more - see the full list of [[Moodle app features]].
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            <h4>Grades and grading</h4>
            <p> A Grades link for each course gives fingertip access to the grades table and teachers can view assignment submissions on the move.</p>
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            <h4>Notes</h4>
            <p>Teachers can view site, course and personal notes about their students and add notes about users.</p>
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==Using the app==
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            <h4>Message participants</h4>
            <p>Send and view private messages to colleagues and students from the Messages link in the side tab</p>
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            <h4>Keep up to date with calendar events</h4>
            <p>Site, course and user events can be viewed from the Calendar link,ensuring you never miss that important session. '''New''': Calendar events can now be viewed offline and infinite scrolling improves is available.</p>
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Note: The Moodle app will ONLY work with Moodle sites that have been set up to allow it. Site admins, please see the [[Moodle app guide for admins]].
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            <h4>View and upload to your Private files</h4>
            <p>Easily see the contents of your private files and upload media to them on the go. '''New:''' App storage is no longer limited to 5MB. It can be up to 50MB or dependent on your SD card.</p>
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            <h4>Notifications</h4>
            <p>Keep up to date with notifications. The app supports both local (Calendar events) and Push (messages, forum posts, submitted assignments etc) notifications. See [[Mobile app notifications]] for more information on enabling these.  ''New:''  Infinite scrolling is available and local notifications have multi-site support.</p>
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====Features Quick list====
Links to download the app are available in the footer and user profile pages when mobile access is enabled:


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* Responsive design for phone and tablets
Teachers, for info on improving your courses for access via the app, please see [[Creating Moodle-app-friendly courses]].
* 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
* Quick access to your course contents
* View calendar events
* Reminder notifications for calendar events
* Mobile Push notifications
* Remote layout/style customization (see below)
* View all your past private messages and notifications
* Browse and download your private and course files
* View forum discussions
* Private messaging between users
* Calendar integration with warning reminders as local notifications
* Upload any type of file from your device to your Moodle private files area
* View the book module and IMS CP
* View site, course and personal users notes
* * Support for sites using CAS or Shibboleth as auth methods
* * View your activity and course total grades in a course
* * Participate in choices
* * Participate in chats


==Staying up to date with new features and improvements==


'''Note (1):''' All features indicated (*) require the [[Moodle Mobile additional features]] plugin to be installed.
Follow [https://twitter.com/moodleapps @moodleapps on Twitter] for news, updates and release announcements and join the discussions in the [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7798 Moodle for mobile forum] on moodle.org.


'''Note (2)''' : Moodle Mobile is not a replacement of the MyMobile or Bootstrap/Simple theme. Moodle Mobile offers offline contents, camera & audio features and Push notifications connected to the user messaging preferences. You can use Moodle Mobile app in combination with a Mobile theme.
See [[New for mobile]] and the [[:dev:Moodle Mobile release notes|Moodle app release notes]] for details of new features recently added.


=== Style customization ===
==See also==
 
* [[Moodle app FAQ]]
The app can also retrieve your custom styles from your Moodle site. Since the app is a HTML5 app, you can apply safely any CSS, CSS2 and CSS3 style.
* [[Moodle Desktop]]
 
In your Moodle installation go to Plugins / Web services / Mobile and enter in the mobilecssurl field a valid URL pointing to a CSS file containing your custom styles.
 
The CSS should be placed inside your Moodle installation (in your custom theme or inside a local plugin)
 
Once the user is logged in the app, there is a periodical process that retrieves your remote CSS files for applying your custom styles.
 
Notice that on the first time a user opens the app, he will see the default "orange" style. Your custom styles will be applied once the user has added a site in the app.
 
See https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_Themes for documentation.
 
=== Languages ===
 
Over 15 languages are currently supported:
 
* Arabic
* Basque
* Catalan
* Chinese
* Czech
* Dutch
* English
* French
* German
* Hebrew
* Hungarian
* Italian
* Japanese
* Mexican spanish
* Portuguese
* Russian
* Spanish
* Swedish
 
==Moodle sites must be enabled for the app to access them==
 
For sites using https, mobile access is enabled by default (in Moodle 3.0 onwards).
 
For http sites, mobile access can be enabled by an administrator as follows:
 
# In ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Web services > Mobile'' tick the 'Enable web services for mobile devices' checkbox
# Click the button to save changes.
 
If your site uses a SSL certificate it must be a trusted certificate. For security reasons the app doesn't work with self-signed certificates.
 
This presentation is a good guide for creating a Moodle Mobile ready course/site: [http://es.slideshare.net/juanleyva/tips-for-creating-moodle-mobile-friendly-courses-sites-moodlemoot-spain-2014 Tips for creating Moodle Mobile friendly courses sites - MoodleMoot Spain 2014]
 
==Installing the Moodle Mobile app==
 
The Moodle Mobile app is available in Google Play, Apple Store, and the Windows Phone Store. See [https://download.moodle.org/mobile/ Moodle Mobile] for links.
 
You can also install the app directly from your mobile device by searching for "Moodle Mobile" with author/owner "Moodle Pty Ltd".
 
==Testing the app on a demo site==
In the login screen, type "teacher" or "student" in the Username field and click the Add button. You will be logged automatically to the Mount Orange Moodle School demo site You can use the Moodle School demo site - http://school.demo.moodle.net/ for  testing the app.
 
== Cache ==
If you connect to your Moodle site and update/create/delete anything, and then go to your mobile app, the content will not be displayed. You will have to wait a couple of minutes. The cache time for the app is currently 5 minutes.
 
You can refresh the contents of the Mobile app using the refresh button (top right in the left orange menu)
 
There are developer options for purging the cache at any time (Settings -> Development)
 
==How to report a bug==
 
# Log in to the Moodle Mobile tracker  [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MOBILE https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MOBILE] (you'll need to [http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/Signup%21default.jspa create a tracker account] if you've not done so previously)
# ''Check whether the issue has already been reported by [https://tracker.moodle.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MOBILE searching all the issues]''
# If not, report the bug by clicking the 'Create Issue' link at the top right of the page, selecting 'Moodle Mobile' as the project
# Add a detailed description then click the Create button
# Attach the following files to the issue by selecting 'Attach Files' in the 'More actions' dropdown menu:
#* 'Device information' - this can be found in the app (Settings -> Development -> Device info, you can send yourself this information by email using the e-mail button at the bottom)
#* App Log (''Settings -> Development -> Show Log'', again you can send yourself this information by email)
 
== Help and support ==
 
* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7798 Moodle Mobile forum]
* [https://twitter.com/moodlemobileapp Twitter: @moodlemobileapp]
 
 
== See also ==
 
* [http://es.slideshare.net/juanleyva/tips-for-creating-moodle-mobile-friendly-courses-sites-moodlemoot-spain-2014 Tips for creating Moodle Mobile friendly courses sites - MoodleMoot Spain 2014]
* [[:dev:Moodle Mobile|Moodle Mobile developer docs]]
* [[Mobile web services]]


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Latest revision as of 08:09, 12 February 2020


On the move with Moodle

Access your Moodle course on your mobile

With the official mobile app for Moodle, you can

  • Browse the content of your courses, even when offline
  • Receive instant notifications of messages and other events
  • Quickly find and contact other people in your courses
  • Upload images, audio, videos and other files from your mobile device
  • Track your progress, mark tasks as complete and browse your learning plans
  • Attempt quizzes, post in forums and edit wiki pages
  • View your course grades

... and lots more - see the full list of Moodle app features.

Using the app

Note: The Moodle app will ONLY work with Moodle sites that have been set up to allow it. Site admins, please see the Moodle app guide for admins.

Links to download the app are available in the footer and user profile pages when mobile access is enabled:

Video description

Teachers, for info on improving your courses for access via the app, please see Creating Moodle-app-friendly courses.

Staying up to date with new features and improvements

Follow @moodleapps on Twitter for news, updates and release announcements and join the discussions in the Moodle for mobile forum on moodle.org.

See New for mobile and the Moodle app release notes for details of new features recently added.

See also