 Thanks Thank You Martin Hi, everybody My name is Sarah. I am I'm in the open source developer as a developer or in core So I'm not in the mobile team developer the mobile team are all these guys Sunday is our coordinator because it's the open source coordinator. So we share the same coordinator, but Juan Johnny power beta are the main team in working on mobile features all the features I will show you I Know all of them because they are also based on Barcelona with me But there are more people in HQ which help us to improve and to make grow the mobile app like Mary and Helen and Helen with the documentation and Barbara and Alberto with the UX What's new in mobile? 3.3 But 3.3. It's not the last version. It's 3.5. I 3.4 so so why I have to explain this think they have a Nice feature and it's important not to see only the last one It's also important to see other features that have been included during this year And that's why I think it's also quite nice to you see these features These features where this version was released on May of this year And include all these features and after of this has been released after of May There were the releases two more versions 3.3 point one and 3.3 point two and these are the main Features, let's see more detail it First one first release included in This version 3.3 was it also includes three more activities So feedback listen and database activities. So now it's with this version was almost Fully supported from the point of view of the student because from the point of view of the teacher There are also many things to do but from the point of view of this of the student It's almost complete a little bit spoiler about 3.4 News it's done now all the activities are included. So now it's fully fully for a complete so far We will see some minutes ago Now if with the 3.3 version we can also log in via wows So you now with the best if you have this version You can log in through Google Facebook Microsoft directly from your mobile app. So it's so good One of the news in model 3.3 Corp version was the course of a view it includes two tabs It's not only the list the course list that as we know as this version. It's Also a progress Complation if it's enabled so you can see where are you and where what you have to do to include and this feature Has been also include in 3.3 mobile app and It's also include the timeline you can also you can see the list of courses, but you can see From the timeline the tab you can see directly all the Activities resources you have to look for first because they are ordered by time So it's so great Ping forum was one of the features included in 3.1 I think so it's long versions ago and in 3.3 It's also supported these features. So now you can pin your discussions directly from the app You don't have to go to the web version to do it and Last but not least You can now from 3.3 search messages and disable notification sound. So it's also quite important features There are many more features than these you can check for them in the website, but These are the more important and what about the mobile version? 3.4 this version was released on This at the end of November. So only three weeks ago. It's so young And it has these features. Let's see more detail it First is not In the app as it is related to because now from 3.4 version you can highlight the app from your site There are there are some configuration parameters So you if you are an admin you can enable these parameters to show you to the students a link in the future or in the profile So let them to promote the app the use of the app So it's so great if you want your students use more than the mobile application And related with the app the news in the app In the 3.4 version is super for workshop activity. So now we are facing to announce that it's Fully super for from the students point of view or to all of the resources and activities included in the core model version But you can browse all activities. You can submit you can download and even you can work offline If it applies because for instance a chat offline chat. It's not a chat. So it has no sense So now it's fully supported You can now also enroll to pay by PayPal courses So if you from since now you have to go to the website and roll in the website version and after of this You can access to the course now directly. You can enroll from the Mobile app. So it's so great that you have you are able to do a lot of things directly from the app And even more features There is also super for forgotten passwords. I have never forgot my password. I have you ever forgot your password. Yeah Me too, sorry So now you can also recover your password directly from the app. You don't need to go to the web version To new features of 3.4 version That we will spin after of me by Yankee Other are also included in this mobile ad version The you can see the private files quota usage and this they supported the category events There is also super for restricted video videos, which was one of my more asked things in our forum So it's now we are really happy to include this feature and we have improved some myos Related things really with the fighter in and a blowering Have you ever heard about the desktop app? Who of you know there they are? Oh Only Yeah, well done I Recommend you to use a mobile the desktop version it's it includes all the features of the mobile app and Why to use it if I can have a browser in all my laptop if it's better because it has more Things because of the offline capabilities you can go wherever you want with connection or without connection Do a lot of things so it's so good To try it people during these days you have been talking about connection probably problems So this can be one solution for you. So let's see and It's also available for the for different operating system. So you don't have any excuse So you need to try You can download for free In this link it's for free. It's like the mobile app version. So You you have to do And what's coming? Why are we planning to do in the following versions? In the model mobile 3.4.1 with which we will be released on February of the next year We are planning to download all the courses now You can download course by one by one But from this version we you will be able to download all the courses So if you have a lot of courses, it will so great because you can with only Two clicks you will be able to have all of them download it in your app or even in your laptop or Computer so and we look so it will fax some backs And what about model 3.5? We are planning to redesign the app Things inside that it's not Inside that and also we would like to improve the outside the user experience and That's why we are going to need to to make it compatible only with versions with 3.1 or newer versions of Moodle. So it's so important if you want if you are planning to a Use the mobile app Be aware and upgrade your system to at least 3.1 version and It will be equal or This version will only work with hundred five point four and Ios eight We are also planning to improve the way to stop the supper Moodle plugins now it can be done. They are the remote add-ons. How much of you have know about the remote add-ons? Have you ever tried? none So if you have your own yeah, you You If you have your own plugins and you want to open directly from a mobile device you can do it using the remote add-ons He can explain how to do it because I'm not There are a lot of documentation And we can you can ask in the mobile forum with this and I'm sure that he will help a lot but We are planning to improve and to make it easier because now we realize that it's not so easy Are you agree? So we are planning to improve we have a draft specification It's open. It's an it's open. It's our work. We are working on this document So if you're interested in know how it's going to do be please Look for it if you can find I will be so pleasant to For you to show you the link and you can comment on this document and give your opinion because it's so important for us Perhaps we are not taking into account all the things that you know that we will be necessary Now you know a little bit better How? What which things you can do with a mobile app? What are the main features of the last versions? So I think that you probably will like to use the app With your students and it's so it's so important to have some some things Into account when you prepare your content That's why I'm going to try to give you some tips I hope you help you. I hope they help you but before starting with these tips I want to make you two questions Have you ever think about how much time do you spend on devices per day five? Yes It's only mobile or you're considering laptop more things only mobile and if you consider all the devices Yeah Okay, so There was one Some figures from three years ago Now probably will be because it's my feeling. It's the same. It's not now It's I think it's so much time. It's six hours and a half. It's so much time here in la India. It's wow In Indonesia in this time it was nine hours. So there are people who asleep less than a It's with the device even the sleeping so amazing, it's what crazy and Another question Have you ever thought about the time you stay? It's time you look for any device the more for instance How much time do you spend? It's short it's And if you watch it to be it's the same time that the device No, no, I'm sure that The bigger is the screen the longer you stay looking for the application So it's so important to take into account this these things because there is a New concept. I love this concept when the mobile team is pay me. It's a micro moment concept Have you ever heard about the micro moment? No, it's so nice My comment is each time it's quick action you do when you look your device some of them mobile or each each device So it's more related with a smartphones or tablets because it's more It's a smaller so it's so important first step. It's this is for free First step if you create content and you know that they are going to use the mobile phone Just as your students is so important you create a small chunks of information. It's not a big information This is small because they are only staying a micro moment looking for at the mobile So if you are planning a lesson about one hour No, no, it's not working because they are not the same as long with the device And be careful because the mobile It has a lot of good things, but it's also So this rapid so you can be interrupted with messages with you have a lot of things here You can you have games you have so it's so important you Prepare a small chunks of information to make it here to the students connect and disconnect to your contents and Think about the mobile because it's not only to design courses for a small screen it's because I have to create content and it has to be a Show it in this size of a screen. No a mobile phone is more than this So if you're creating content related with and you know that your students are going to use a mobile Please be careful because a mobile has a different input If you ask to the students they write a long Text It's not so easy. They don't have a keyboard a big keyboard So it's so hard if they have to write a lot with the Keyboard of the mobile. So one thing to be careful. It's the things we ask to the students because the input Things is Ways are not the same Mobile let you Two weeks and nice things you can move with it is easier than to take the laptop or to take the Computer and to bring whatever you want and you can be connected So there are more possibilities than to stay in a class there and do things there So you can move and you are connected when you are moving So you have to think what you can do with these kind of things you have more sensors It's not only Same things that you have in class It has it's so small, but I can take a photo. I can record an audio Has a GPS so I can move and knows where I am where I am so Think about the possibilities. We have we can quit it There is emotional connection with the mobile. It's not only a piece of think How much of you sleep with the mobile near your bed I'm sorry, but oh only only I think yeah. Yes, don't to be him yet. Yes, we do it It's it's more than this if you can look at the screen so because you'll get your batteries get off It's like no, I was waiting for a message With nothing happens because but it's more than a mobile and Remember mobile is this grouping So a students can can be Interrupted anytime because they receive a message. They remember that they have to do no they want to play sometime with or they want to Learn some language with so there are a lot of things to do with the mobile so important and Let's start with the tips There are different I will give you nine tips they are going to sit in three blocks a Content there. There is the block. The first one is the content creation. After of this We will see assessment at least at last we'll see a communication So let's start with the content creation block first tip is consider the creation of the content from the mobile point of view During the creation not when you finish Perhaps I could I could do this with the mobile no if you start to thinking about a course please start thinking about from the first thing because probably it's not only to adapt the content to the Application to see correctly it's because you can do more things So it's so important to think all the time that you have this and your students also and they can also So it's important first thing My students will use the device or not. So and if the answer is yes, please think about it When you start to create the content Second tip remember micro moments. They are only staying few minutes looking at the screen So it's important you prepare description short and simple It's I have no nothing more to do because it's micro moments and they can be disrupted. So please try to resume everything first tip related with images Before adding some image You have to think three three things First is the image really required It's the image. It's also because I want to be nice to make nicer the course Or it's really important they a student see this image to understand one thing because it is if it's only because it's nice Perhaps it's not necessary They are they will get more time to to see the course because they will need to spend some data to download it. So Think about it If the image is needed, okay, we have to include some images because it's nice It's it helps sometimes to explain what I'm with where we are going to explain Taking into account the file size It's you I'm sure you will have probably nice photos like like so lines this morning But it's not necessary to put the big the best resolution because Remember the screen in this case is important. It's only this screen. So From pixels or for Megas image. It's not necessary Because with that little more it will be better and a students will save time Downloaded it and will save that if they are connected it if they are not and we feel so Taking to account and it's important to crop the image to show only the Special part that the area of interest that you want to show to the students So remember all the required images the size the size is small As small as possible and The way that the images are shown in the The mobile devices is different in the web and in the app if you open to the web version in the browser Like Chrome here. You your all the images included in a course will be resized it automatically So you don't have to do anything and automatically will be Resized it and in the app is the same but you get an Magnifier glass icon so you are able to see the image bigger So it's important also to take into account and if you want a the students open the image with a high resolution It's easy to do in the application. So You can advise them you can instead of opening the mobile in the web version. You can try the app Last tip related code with content creation. It's the use of rights media content If you want to put an image it's so important to use if it's a photographic Gift it's it's so important to use the current because if not the size will not be the good The it probably the quality It will be the same Related with videos on an audience. It's so important to use this standards to avoid this the students has to install other applications In this case is this is also so important for any kind of fight you are you have to add for instance If you want to your students watch Document it's better to use the PDF format because it's a standard probably they can open Directly in the app without need to insult anything if you use other formats like Docics for instance, it's Probably they will need to install additional or they won't be able to open it So we we were in trouble with it's like no no better PDF or some a standard format and It's so important also to warn uses about the file size and type Why because of if they are going to need a special application to open it It's so important we tell them and it's also important the size because if they have to download a big video I think they will appreciate to know it because if they are at home They okay, but if they are outside and they have no data and the connection is not good. Probably they will wait to We've been a good way for connection to download it This can be done directly in the web The in the web version there is a in the on in all the resources. There are two parameters Which led you to if you enable them you can see the file type and the size directly You check these boxes and when you see the resource you can see see that the file type and the size It's important to take into account that is this is In the app version at the moment this information is not shown. So if we think we have a plot a video And we have checked this box Be careful because in the app is not showing so it's better in this case To write in the description field for instance writes a comment be careful because this is a video of 100 mega for instance So important we will try to add In the app, but now it's not so it's important to to take into account And what about what can we do with the students from their assessment? Point of view there are different kind of activities you can remember We are fully support for all of them, but there are some that is so easy to use and it's so You make you happy and you save a lot of time one of them is the choice It's so easy to create and it's you make for instance make quick kill Make quick class balls in in in class if you for example if you allow the They Bring your own device in your classes. It's so easy to use these prepare some Choice and let them ask some things that you want to know in this moment There's a trick to show the results a life when they are answering So if you are interested you can show How they are both in and how it did the the answers are coming This trick is explained it in in the dog in the model dog How to do it's only to copy some files in the server and so it's quite easy and it's so nice And what about the quizzes? quizzes are also so easy from the student from the point of view of the students you can for instance use them To a diagnose before the training events or even when you have finished the class you can give them some quizzes to check if they have understood so They can answer these quizzes when they are going to the class or where they are going to home So and use the mobile device for doing it. So think about it It's not only the things that they can do in class. It's easy for them to answer these questions from the from the mobile From the teachers point of view have different hands and hats and It's so important to be aware about the length remember micro moments They are only staying few minutes in our screen. So it's better to prepare three short quizzes that one big one I'm sure you will be able always to make them shorter and You will need some time to prepare it It's everybody who has tried to create a quiz will know but we'll save you a lot of time without the correction So Valorate it's I think it's a good thing you can do and it's also very well considered by the students it motivates it them so Taking to account. There are a lot of question types which are Really good for mobile mobile friendly like all the short answer questions And one curiosity remember in mobile the drug and drop question. It's stop and drop. So it's quite different, but It's important to know it and more things I Tell you before a this is more than a small screen The cast lot of sensors. We have camera We have we can make for instance a language in a language class We can use for recording them to the audio to know if the pronunciations is good not as mine in English for instance And you can also make another think about another kind of activities What about a Historical treasure hunt in a city and you have to be seen different Points and take some photos and after of this right it's you can do a lot of things So think about it. It's not only I can't use the mobile in the app It's a lot of things that I can use I can do if I use it last block the communication one The app one of the things that using the mobile in general with any application is that you can be triggered by Notifications all kind of notifications With the mobile app in the mobile app is the same you can get all this the same notifications that you get in the version or in the email So it's pretty important. You configure it. So Be careful and if you make sure that it's configured quite quite well You will need to get the push notifications You will need an a notifier server if you don't want to don't have one you can register your model site to have it Remember yesterday one when Martin tell there No, I don't remember this it's There were a lot of Sites here in India, but we are sure that they are even more than we have resisted it So it's so important to resist it because it let us to know that You are also you have also benefits if you register your site like for instance to use the air notifier servers And last tip It's so important to work to people if you are planning to do something with the students that they you know that they are going to use some Specific a mobile application one then before the the session because on this way you will You don't have to spend some minutes when the way you start the session With this kind of things before finishing only a few Things remember mobiles if we are using more and more a day by day So you have if you know if you have not think about it. It's important. You start to do it now It's not important. You know the latest models It's important to do you know the capabilities the things that you can do with them the mobile and remember so important think about sessions short sessions because the macro moments They are only staying few minutes If you are thinking about to use the smartphone 15 minutes perhaps if you are thinking about tablets It's 30 minutes. So think about it Some few questions I think we have and before finishing if you use the app, please rate it Write comments because we really appreciate your opinion. So We hope you enjoy the app Happy time for questions To use the app is not necessary to register the model only Is inside if you want to receive the press notifications on the mobile. So everybody can do is just to show me Okay, once again, it's a similar question that I have been thinking about You see Android and user security Is a serious problem. I mean There are very few people in the world today really trust Android for security How does it impact us in terms of mood a lap because you know, I Don't know what to say about Android if you know, it says you can they can enroll like or they can login the same that in the web version So it's true that you have to be careful if you share the devices It's so important you log out all the sessions But if you are it's the same that they with we have rosé you open up rosé and they left the session open it on go It's thing. What's your concern? Yeah, so is there is there any other data apart from the browser page that or the app is Android recording any other Data from the app I'm not sure if I understand in the question The only thing would be course information is downloaded into the app Into your local device. Yeah Oh really, I mean Are you worried that a hacker will come and steal a PDF that a student downloaded perhaps? They cannot only download They can do it in the web version So it's not if they can download in the web version, and it's not a problem for you in the app. It's the same Yeah, it's it's not more than the Just a quick thing to add on the files will be downloaded only into the Moodle app Correct not on the device It depends on how the device stores files, but they're stored in a protected area for the app Okay, so there's no chance of The learner being able to share a downloaded file to another mobile. There is every chance because the data security was well because Anything you can look at you can copy Anywhere any device of course I'm asking more in a corporate context where you know, most companies have got a protected system and they've got a licensed Moodle version that's running and everything's run on a An enterprise network that's got a thousand safeguards for information security, but that's not very applicable on a mobile At least not yet There are company specific apps to check Perhaps your mail or you know perhaps attend Skype calls through your mobile but not anything beyond that so It you can't depend on company security to protect your mobile if it's your personal device if it is of course a company issued Device then they'll have their own safeguards, but if somebody's taking a Moodle course on their personal device This data security could Could Be a concern at least for same with desktops if you're on a laptop Desktop laptops company issued ones are Fixed most most of the times if it's a company issued phone, then I assume they'll they'll pick a secure You know Distribution or it'll be locked down. They can't install apps things like that. And so it's the same I think Yeah Sorry, that was the follow-up. The other thing I wanted to check was What are the plans for integrating other applications mobile applications through Moodle? So for example, it can mood interface with WhatsApp Not camera. Can it interface with other third-party apps? So can I use Moodle to create a WhatsApp group and have that as a discussion forum? I Can answer this so we do have plans to integrate Moodle chat with other chat apps via bots Right Because it's all about membership in those groups in Moodle's accounts. Do not automatically translate to WhatsApp So there's no there's no direct method you need a bot that's sitting in the group and is Communicating back to the Moodle course backwards and forwards. It's the only way and not just what's app which is owned by Facebook I just want to remind everybody but but telegram or The other 50 messages the you know we chat is very popular in China, etc So we're doing it through bots Not just sorry not just chat. I meant any other application. Yeah, it could be I Think yesterday I was demonstrating to Tom. There was a paid chemistry lab application and It sort of simulates a chem lab. You've got all these bottles You've got all the chemicals and you just play around with it. Yep. So you can launch You can launch apps through links But the inter app Communication on iOS and Android is not so great I was talking to Apple and they and I they said, what's the thing you'd want us most to do? I said make us Be allowed to control other apps and launch apps and pass files to apps and have apps pass files Yeah, back to us. They don't do it for security Which is the it's part of the security of the mobile platforms. So there are some restrictions to that Okay, thanks. Yeah probably Last question from somebody Probably I'll just add up to the discussion that was happening here. Oh, there you are So we are doing a lot of work for like corporates that you said So one of the things that you would said rightly was about PDFs So we have installed an operation inside moodle itself where the PDF opens there It may not have hundred percent of its operations, but it very well opens there It does not download into a mobile app. Secondly for your scum files. They come in encrypted form So you put that in the memory card generally most of the users do not go to their memory card They decrypted and then they see so it looks like a remote possibility Coming to the third question that you said about linking it with others So we are also working towards it where we're actually like you said through buds We're actually integrating a lot of so it has an inbuilt forum We are also integrating like a face book where whatever you're learning you would probably like to share in a closed community So we are still in the process of doing it, but yes a lot of work is being done around that as well And sorry, where are you from? I'm from Mumbai. My organization's name is Shazatek. Okay Interesting. Yeah, a lot of this is moodle net also that I was talking about also what we're planning is a lot of sharing between things too So I'm just taking over your session Sarah. I hope you don't mind this My name is Rahul. I'm definitely last question so we can move on. Thank you. Just want to add on my name is Rahul I'm from McGraw Hill and we have our digital offerings in terms of connect connect to these other digital offerings For higher-ed customers in India. We have already inculcated the digital platforms through moodle That's a single sign-on through moodle, which could be Accessed access through web as well as through mobile number one and all the applications external tools could be accessed within model from mobile or web. It's doable Okay Thank you. I don't think you mentioned the single sign-on. Did you did I miss the single sign-on? Yeah, you did mention it. I missed it. Sorry. I was looking at my I was looking at my mobile One of the features of 3.0. Yeah, it's a great feature. Yeah single sign-on. Martin one question I have Let's say my moodle installed on a local network. So can I provide this mobile app solution to my employees, let's say Because it needs some public address, right? No, it it talks direct. So you just put the the the URL in the login screen No, let's say my application is on internet. That's good. So let's say That's fine the IP addresses being accessed They only will can use the app inside your Internet, but if they can access in your in there from their workplace from the they will access So they need to be in the VPN. They're mobile as well, right? I believe yes. Yeah, okay. Thank you Okay Although I'm tempted to keep going because those are very interesting. We've got a lot of interest But let's move on. We can have some questions at the end. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you very much for that