Mobile app

This page is for dumping ideas for the official Moodle mobile app (for iPhone and Android, initially).

Web services API

Use tokens for security

Main functions needed:

Camera

• Take a photo/video of an assignment/thing, add a grade and submit as feedback to an Offline assignment
• Take a photo/video and post as attachment to a forum for discussion
• Take a photo/video and post to a database activity (including location)

Location

Update a location field in the profile with current location, for display with Google maps

Participants

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

• Contacts app
• Coverflow
• iPad photos app with pinchzoom on groups

Draft ideas

Two different apps, one for students, one for teachers. The only settings page would be to switch to another Moodle sites. When launch the application, display a dashboard, summary of my needs on the currently selected Moodle site.

Student needs

• see my activities/assignements deadlines, specially the close ones
• see messages from other people (private and forum)
• be able to answer a message
• see my grades (limited view)

Teacher needs

• see messages from other people (private and forum)
• be able to answer a message
• See list of my courses
• See list of my students per course
• See new submissions
• Give grades if it doesn't require much effort
• See grades (limited view)
• See activities/assignements deadlines, with number of missing submissions
• Download all assignments (eg pdfs), grade them offline, send back to students

See also

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