2023-05-25 Mobile Meeting notes

Roadmap Recap / Review

• Review - Open edX Mobile Roadmap

• Took a look at some of the Quick Discovery documents as well for 2 of these roadmap items

Missing:

• Internationalization / RTL support - not currently in the mobile roadmap document

Learning Academy Selection

• Quick Discovery: Learning Academy Selection

  • Canvas / Moodle / Open LMS - applications do this today, but what are the details of this workflow?

    • Moodle:

      • APIs for Moodle are open / available, could use this for discovery / review

      • Most LMS data (enrollments, students, content etc possible via APIs)

    • Canvas

      • They don't recommend using the open source platform

  • Might this be helpful also for multi-LMS platform type instances as well? (for platform selection step / upfront)

• Options for Open edX instances adopting mobile:

  • No Mobile - sad, but the current default.

  • Dedicated App: Separate white label build of the mobile application, expensive option for many.

  • General Open edX / Provider specific app that can contains hundreds or more learning academy options

• What is the priority / impact of this functionality?

  • How many open edx sites would raise their hand to use the Open edx or a provider build application? Can we get that information early?

  • How many people would instead opt for custom built apps if the Tutor plugin / build improvements help lower the cost dramatically for app builds.

  • Is the multiple learning site selection functionality valuable / essential? what headaches do we take on if we do the switching behavior.

• For dynamic themes / theme loading what additional tech discovery should be done here?

  • Building the easily themable custom app build would help us understand what areas / elements are themable.

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Offline Content Modes

• Stateless + Stateful Content Blocks

  • many challenges with syncing state

Prioritization / Usage

• How can we determine which features are essential in the existing applications and how can that help prioritization.

• Having this wold let us add prioritization to feature + capability matrix + roadmap