[Xerte] Moodle MObile

Thu Jan 6 11:29:15 GMT 2011

I'm not sure about the current status of MoMo. When I last looked only a
handful of devices were supported on it and the instructions on the website
for the downloads didn't work.

In my view a potentially more interesting route is to use Moodle on a Stick
(e.g. MAXOS but not essential) and to sync this with Moodle on a Server. The
OU did run a project on this but the way they were doing it required the
MySQL root password to be transmitted and this was obviously a 'NoNo' so the
project was dropped.

Talking with Colleges who would like to use Moodle on a Stick to sync with
Moodle on a Server, there is another way and that is to run a scripted
application on the server. This would prompt the user for authentication and
then transmit the credentials to the Moodle Server within the physical
constraints of the machine room in which it was housed, i.e. there would be
no need to transmit any passwords across the Internet, and the risk of a
user's credentials being hacked is no greater than it is for standard Moodle
access. 

The work that would then be needed is to retrieve the appropriate data from
the server and pass it back in an appropriate format using css technology to
format the data for the particular device. The scope probably also needs to
be defined, e.g. is it going to be worthwhile updating discussion boards
etc., which could be completely out of date by the time a sync actually takes
place.

This solution wouldn't solve the 'flash' problem on mobile devices which is
not restricted to iOS (imho) - I can't get Flash to work on my Android 2.2
Froyo system and when I try to download the plugin for the new
Android-compliant Firefox (which works well) I get a message that Flash is
not supported on this device, if I use the inbuilt browser the Xerte RLOs on
our Moodle site will not run (although it says Flash 10.1 is already
installed and I can run the flash games that adobe provide at
http://m.flash.com.

Kindest regards and I wish you all a Flashy New Year!

Thomas

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 06 January 2011 10:53 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile

In terms of commercial content from publishers, ePub (an xml based developer
friendly format) is solidly embedded in Europe, US and growing in Asia so
Xerte being able to output the XML to different devices is exactly parallel
to the commercial trends in big publishing houses. 

When I have Xerte fantasies I think of tutors having XOT templates which can
be filtered by operating system so as an author you click a drop down list on
XOT to select "Android" or "PC" or "iPhone" etc and a set of templates
appears that will run on that particular operating system. 

That would be a great community development for people to bid for when funds
come round....

Maybe I can use this list to alert funding opportunities as well so that
people could form consortia round the list contributors...

A

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 06 January 2011 10:37
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Moodle MObile

Hmmm...

One viable route would be Xerte method.....
I mean..., RLO is basically an XML structure and have different apps on the
different platforms to interpret and run them....

Rationale:
Using standards, the non-flash supoort on iOS sucks, because in my opinion
that only leaves HTML5, which isn't mature enough (in my humble opinion).

So, for the time being, that implies dedicated players interpreting same
'documents'....

But I would be very interested in other solutions!

Regards,

Tom

Op 6-1-2011 11:08, Julian Tenney schreef: 

OK, let's try another question.

What would you choose to develop applications and content for mobile devices.

You need to author once, deliver anywhere: same source code has to go to
Android, iOS, Blackberry at the very least.

Must have very good support for handling all sorts of external data sources.

Must have currency, so third party developers can be contracted for work if
required.

Preferably has decent sized, active community of developers.

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 05 January 2011 19:11
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile

"(or any other JAVA and Internet capable device)".

Tablets anyone?

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:55:36 +0000
From: Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk
To: knowledgeware at kccsoft.com; xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
CC: 

My thoughts entirely - Moodle is good stuff but somewhat clunky on a laptop
never mind a phone...

A

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
Sent: 05 January 2011 18:43
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile

Sounds cool but...does anyone really do courses on their 2X2 phone screen?
Are there any research numbers anywhere on this?

RonM2

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Nigel Irwin
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:55 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Moodle MObile

The MOMO (Mobile Moodle) project is an Add-On to the popular Moodle
<http://www.mobilemoodle.org/momo18/course/www.moodle.org>  Learning
Management System. It brings the ability to implement mobile learning
scenarios with Moodle as a backend.

Mobile users install the MOMO client, a JAVA based application, on their
mobile phones (or any other JAVA and Internet capable device). Through this
client they can access courses wherever they are, which allows completely new
scenarios.

Administrators install the necessary MOMO extension on their Moodle server
which makes the compatible contents available for mobile usage. They can
configure and maintain the system through the integrated administration
interface all within Moodle.

Teachers can design courses with either several mobile elements or complete
mobile learning scenarios using the tools and methodologies they know from
within Moodle.

Regards, Nigel 
IT Training and Support Co-ordinator 
01444 884906

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:42 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Moodle MObile

Anyone got any experience of Moodle Mobile? What is it? A means of getting
moodle courses onto your phone?

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