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Deliverables
Stage 1 - Improved Bulk Download Tools
Bulk Download Tools: This would improve the ability to bulk download full sections of a course or an entire course and all its downloadable elements.
Download Confirmations: Progress: Minor updates to showing downloaded status and allowing individual download of blocks when viewing a block element.
Stage 2 - Mobile Download Size Confirmation & Settings
Additional controls to support data saving and download confirmations are also a part of this set of changes.
Download Progress: Minor updates to showing downloaded status and allowing individual download of blocks when viewing a block element.
Stage 2 - Offline Text Downloads
The ability to have text / html components be stored / cached for local render in the mobile application. Download controls would be added to elements similar to video components and bulk download controls would download all elements (Video / Text) within that level of the course.
Ideally, shared / cached javascript / css is also processed to support interactive offline HTML elements, but it is possible we may need some way to designate HTML blocks that might lose some interactivity when viewed offline if they rely in any way on internet connectivity to function fully. (
Stage 3 - Read-Only Problem Downloads
The ability to download capa problems in read-only mode is the next milestone, allowing learners to see an offline mode for this component with disabled input controls and some messaging that explains completing this course element is only possible while online.
Stage 4 - Mobile Course Stats Download View
From the course page on the mobile applications it should be possible to get to a download details view, showing what percentage of the course experience is available for viewing on mobile, what percentage is available for completion on mobile, and what percentage is downloadable. Seeing currently downloaded sections and download controls should also be visible from this view.
Stage 5 - Mobile Download Settings
(Details / controls for downloads - details coming soon)
Stage 6 - Mobile Authoring Stats View
Providing course authors visibility into mobile experience status is a way to help ensure improved mobile engagement and usage. Providing a view into this from Studio to highlight best practices and mobile view / complete / download percentages should help educators make better mobile course experiences.
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Based on the above use cases, we are breaking down on high-level scope as follows:
In Scope | Out of Scope |
Text and read-only problem download mode for course blocks | Fully interactive problems for download and completion on mobile |
Mobile and Studio view into course view / complete / download details | Mobile Course Content View (newly conceived, but moved to the course navigation project / effort) |
MVP Specs
Features & Requirements
In order to realize this MVP, we believe the following features will be required. Refer to the following flow chart for more details:
Feature | Requirements |
Improved Bulk Download Tools | Today, in the open edx mobile experience download buttons exist at the subsection, unit, and block levels. With this shift, we’d like to move bulk download controls to the course, section, and block levels. Additional download confirmation dialogs, storage and connection error states, and download progress status updates are also planned here. Finally, additional account settings are planned to improve data storage controls for learners. Design screens / flows for this are included below. |
Download Confirmation Dialogs | |
Download Quality Settings and Options | |
Text Problem Linting / Classification | details coming soon |
Problem Linting / Classification | details coming soon |
Offline Text Downloads | From an experience standpoint, this simply means that text components can be downloaded and would show download status indicators where applicable. Achieving some performance gains when rendering these text blocks would be helpful, but the question remains of whether we could support 100% of the interactivity of all html elements when downloaded and how to detect this. |
Offline Read-Only Problems | This initial version of offline problems would be focused on a read only view of (capa) problems, though we would need to decide which exact problems are in scope and which advanced problem types are not in scope for this read only view. Starting with the 5 common problem types is a useful increment, but we’d need to make sure the information necessary to classify the capa problem and its offline support level is known to the mobile application based on the OLX / metadata available. |
Mobile Download Details View | Details coming soon |
Studio Mobile Stats View | details coming soon |
New Mobile Content Page | Moved into future Course Navigation project All previous updates would be incremental changes to the existing Course tab within the mobile experience. This increment involves a new content page that takes the course content outline and combines it with our video tab to introduce clearer content filtering, completion status, and download status for course content. Mockup / concept sketch coming soon. This new content page is currently being seen as something that would pair with a new course home page, but that is separately added here as its own increment. |
Technical Open Questions
We anticipate the following to some of the key questions that we will need answered during technical discovery.
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