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Green rows are app updates we think are candidates a quick wins development effort in the new open edx mobile apps. List: |
Feature Category | Feature | Need | Description | RG Approx. Development Size | Working Group Comments | ||||||
Login experience | Pre Registration/Login Discovery Experience (Before Login Experience) |
| Unlogged in users can still enter the discovery module and explore the catalog | While previously discussed this wasn’t in our feature gap list, added now! | |||||||
Social logins (Login Experience) |
| Ability to login from social accounts such as FB, Outlook, Google, & Apple | Small - per provider | May require additional discovery so TBD on if it can be in the Quick Wins effort. | |||||||
Learning Experience - Main Dashboard | What’s new screen (After Login Experience) |
| User onboarding pop-up for new features added in a release Need to document public process for mobile app versions to help with tracking what’s new messaging. | ✅ Quick Wins Included | Volodymyr Chekyrta - sizing needed next / decision on inclusion | ||||||
Programs section (Main Dashboard ) |
| Very specific feature tailored for edX. This might not be a requirement for any other LMS | XXL - Native support | We might want to consider a smaller sized effort to add web views for Programs using existing edx-platform views prior to fully building the native variant of this. | |||||||
App update version (Main Dashboard) |
| Ability to show the "update the app" banner if the user is using an old version of the app In configuration one app is marked current, some are marked deprecated. When deprecated the upgrade message warns of broken functionality more directly. | ✅ Quick Wins Included | Volodymyr Chekyrta - sizing needed next / decision on inclusion | |||||||
Profile Live picture (Accounts/Profile) |
| Ability to set user profile picture in app | TBD | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | |||||||
Learning Experience - Course Dashboard | Component completion Checkmarks (Course Dashboard) |
| Automatic marking of completed components of a course on the course dashboard | ✅ Quick Wins Included | This is currently possible in the RG application, automatic refreshing of visual indicator can be done. | ||||||
Course Certificate (Course Dashboard) |
| Ability to view earned course certificate | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | ||||||||
Share Course Button (Course Dashboard) |
| Ability to share a course | TBD | This work to be added after Deep linking is built into the app. | |||||||
Resume Course (Course Dashboard) |
| Resume course button that allows the user to continue studying where they left off in the app | TBD | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | |||||||
Resume Button synced between web & mobile apps (Course Dashboard) |
| Syncing of the users learning progress with the web and mobile so that a cross platform user can continue from they left off from any platform | TBD | Worth syncing on here, API that references which unit page to resume course at may be wrong (from RG analysis) | |||||||
Bulk videos download feature (Corse Dashboard > Videos Tab) |
| Ability to download course videos in bulk onto the device for offline viewing | ✅ Quick Wins Included | Most of the functionality already implemented | |||||||
Navigate to Dates screen (Corse Dashboard > Dates Tab) |
| So that the user don't miss any assesment by seeing the schedule | TBD | Ideally bundle with Calendar integration / Native Course Dates page | |||||||
Navigations from calendar items to unit navigation directly (Corse Dashboard > Dates Tab) |
| Ability to load the specific component by just tapping on any assessment link in dates screen | TBD | Ideally bundle with Calendar integration / Native Course Dates page | |||||||
Calendar integration (Course Dashboard > Dates Tab) |
| The ability to integrate important course dates to a personal calendar i.e. Google Calendar | Small to Medium ? | Resize based on requirements | |||||||
HTML support in Discussion posts (Discussion Tab: Course Dashboard) |
| Helps load HTML content within discussion posts | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | ||||||||
Learning Experience - Unit Navigation | Transcript navigation (Corse Dashboard > Video’s Screen) |
| Tapping on transcripts sentences automatically seeks the video that part | ✅ Quick Wins Included | |||||||
Closed Captions (Corse Dashboard > Video’s Screen) |
| Ability to change the subtitles of the video if available | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | ||||||||
In app review system (Corse Dashboard > Video completed) |
| A pop-up feedback message to rate the quality of the video | ✅ Quick Wins Included | ||||||||
Celebratory modal (Unit navigation) |
| A modal that is shown on completion of the first section of the course to motivate the user to continue learning | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | ||||||||
Improved Unit navigation |
| From course dashboard to components → 3 screens on RG app vs 2 screens edX app (Unit Navigation) | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | ||||||||
Enhanced Unit Viewing Experience with In-App Full Web View |
| Within app full web view experience of full unit if it doesn’t have full support on our main component screen (Unit Navigation) | TBD | Would be helpful to connect with edX team on the requirements here. | |||||||
Miscellaneous | Push notifications (Internal Working) |
| Ability to send a variety of push notifications to users | Small to Medium | Resize based on requirements (Firebase messages only? more?) | ||||||
Deep links (Internal Working) |
| Ability to take the user to the specific component by tapping on the link provided in the |
Calendar as a deeplink | Small to Medium | Resize based on requirements | ||||||||
Landscape support (Full App) |
| Ability of the app to be used in landscape mode | ✅ Quick Wins Included | This was specifically disabled in phone sizing, enabled on tablets. Can enable all screen rotation with incremental effort. | ||||||
Screen Casting |
| Casting Support to bigger screens like a TV (Chrome Cast) | Done - Small | This is currently possible in the RG application, sync with edX team on missing requirements / testing gap? | ||||||
Localization |
| (11 Languages including RTL (Right to Left) languages like Arabic & Hebrew) | Medium - initial infrastructure | |||||||
Accessibility (a11y) support |
| TalkBack on Android & VoiceOver on iOS | ✅ Quick Wins Included |
Resize based on requirements |
Additional Gaps from Mobile Working Group
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