Moodle Mobile. Welcome. #MootPH18. Stuart Mealor

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1 Moodle Mobile Welcome

2 Audience experience Question 1: Have you used Moodle on a tablet?

3 Audience experience Question 2: Have you used Moodle on a smartphone?

4 Audience experience Question 3: Have you used the Moodle Mobile App?

5 Audience experience Question 4: Do you consider yourself to be highly competent with Moodle Mobile App?

6 Audience experience Question 5: Have you designed a Moodle course with mobile access specifically in mind?

7 Moodle Mobile MOOC - sharing This session is essentially sharing our experiences from the development and running of our Moodle Mobile MOOC. And also sharing aspects of the design and testing that we follow to produce 'commercial level' courses. I'm not going through the content today because you can join the MOOC for free 1st May!

8 About us What we do... One-third training Onsite in NZ, and via One-third hosting / technical One-third development (content e.g. SCORM, HTML5, Themes, custom code, and consultancy 40% national, 60% international work Full time, part-time, and contract/consultants NZ, EU, US

9 Moodle Mobile MOOC Why do it? HRDNZ have been a Moodle Partner since 2006 makes me feel old now! It's been a hard road sometimes, but very often a rewarding and interesting one The challenge of creating a workable business model around something that is totally free (Moodle) is still a very unusual proposition

10 Moodle Mobile MOOC

11 Technology Making the site work imoot

12 Course or Site? Initially we were going to put this course together within our online Moodle course training site: There are courses for Teachers, Designers, Administrators, and Developers English Spanish, French. But we thought we would get more flexibility by creating a specific site

13 Challenges - technology It's a MOOC! But what does that really mean? At a basic level (for us) it means up to 1,000 users This means an average of 42 users per hour Participants locations are highest from New Zealand (+/-20%), USA, France, UK, India. One 'working day' covers second to fifth largest (+/-80%), so we have to plan for 800/8 (working day hours) = 100 per hour during busy periods

14 Challenges - technology However, it's a Mobile MOOC! But what does that really mean? It means that people are accessing small pieces of light-weight information, but often. Lots of small activity, but no long connections e.g streaming movies.

15 Moodle Mobile MOOC structure The MOOC is just four weeks, but the Site needed to contain more than just four Courses:

16 Languages How to make a course dual language imoot

17 Challenges - language The MOOC is in English and French! But what does that really mean? Stuart (English), Jean-Marc Doucet (French) We decided early on that we would not have separate Courses for the different languages, but combine both into the same Course(s) Options for doing this?

18 Challenges - language Language tags! Standard Moodle language Filter How do we use them? For example, the News Forum: <span lang="en" class="multilang">news and announcements</span><span lang="fr" class="multilang">nouvelles et annonces</span> Moodle detects the language (from the user Profile) and displays the correct text (via language Filter)

19 Challenges - language It can look complicated in HTML view <span class="multilang" lang="en">hangout in our virtual Café - an area for general discussion that might not relate directly to the course content.</span><span class="multilang" lang="fr">conversations dans notre Café virtuel - un espace de discussions générales qui pourraient ne pas se rapporter directement au contenu du cours.</span> But it's quite easy to work with once you've done it a few times :-) Adding Spanish would be easy now :-)

20 Challenges - language What doesn't get translated? Course shortname (important database value) Our solution is to use very simple names

21 Challenges - language Takes some getting used to as a Teacher

22 Groups How to setup and use Groups imoot

23 Challenges - Groups Using Groups Sections (Topics) can be set to only be available to a specific Group Once we realised this was to be the main approach, we re-designed the Preparation area, and the instructions in the Enrolment area so that people would join the correct Group (Group enrolment key) English or Francophone

24 Challenges - Groups Using Groups

25 Challenges - Groups Using Groups Courses setup with two Groups Different Enrolment key for each

26 Challenges - Groups Using Groups duplicate sections (Topics)

27 Challenges - Groups Edit Section

28 Challenges - Groups Restrict access

29 Challenges - Groups Add restriction dialog Note we didn't use Language (why not?...later!)

30 Challenges - Groups Set the Access restriction to a Group e.g. English

31 Challenges - Groups MOST important part! Not obvious Clicking the eye hides the content from other languages (not just make it un-clickable)

32 Challenges - Groups The result The other language section is completely hidden :-)

33 Challenges restrict by language We considered the excellent 'Restrict by language' availability Plugin But encountered issues with the Moodle Mobile App

34 Challenges but... Information course provided different challenge We couldn't force only English or French, because any other browser language would see nothing! Remember, it's the Operating System and web browser that are proving the language to Moodle for the Information course, because users are not logged in it's just a Guest access area so there is no language set on the Profile yet ;-)

35 Testing Commercial level preparation of content (as if people are paying for it!) imoot

36 Challenges content development As the main content developer I setup multiple users and spent time with 4 users logged in! Stuart a Teacher Sylvester a Student (English language, but sometimes changing to Spanish to test non English/French) Honey a Student (French language in Profile and App) Admin (to make changes at site level that affect courses etc.)

37 Challenges - testing Also used multiple browsers for content development and testing Apple MacBook Pro Safari Teacher Firefox Sylvester Opera Admin SRWare Iron (Chrome without the spying) - Honey

38 Challenges - testing Multiple access across six devices Apple MacBook Air Safari, Firefox, Opera, SRWare Iron Apple ipad Pro (I love this!) and Apple ipad 1 Safari, Firefox, Opera, Puffin, Moodle Mobile App iphone 7 and iphone 3 Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Moodle Mobile App Android 7 cheap tablet Firefox, Opera, built n browser, Moodle Mobile App Windows 8

39 Great find Mobile App restrictions One usually thinks of restrictions as meaning you have less control right? Moodle_Mobile_availability_pl ugin

40 Great find Mobile App restrictions Not this time! This availability plugin lets you display different content to browser users and mobile users :-) Two (similar) resources one formatted for browser, and one for Mobile Or even completely different content!

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50 Improvements v2.0 Made some design changes e.g. re-factoring Quizzes for Moodle Mobile App now they are fully supported in the Mobile App Schedule for 1st May and 1st November Add Spanish? Similar paid version also available (1st Feb, 1st Aug) for people who want a more personal experience on

51 Challenges End Happy to answer questions, listen to ideas and suggestions(!), or maybe share my screen and show you the real course with editing on? All depending on time and bandwidth of course ;-) Oh, and the URL is:

52 Let's open the conversation... Question for now or maybe later? Have you designed a course for mobile use? Have you designed for multi-language users? Have you run a MOOC (or considered it)? What were your challenges (similar to ours?) or what do you think they may be?