2025-11-21 Mobile Meeting Notes

Date

Nov 21, 2025

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes

Item	Presenter	Notes
In App Purchases for mobile/ web	@Ivan Stepanok	https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OEPM/pages/5321916472 Zeitlabs is working on an Open edX native payments backend: https://github.com/zeit-labs/zeitlabs-payments Other contender is woocommerce
Smart Push Automation for Learner Motivation in Mobile	@Ivan Stepanok	https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OEPM/pages/5321719914 Concern about ACE based backend service and a second mobile service for this
AI Discussion Seeding for Unit Discussions		https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OEPM/pages/5339185158
Plugin Based Architecture for Additional Course Block Types for Mobile	@Ivan Stepanok	https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/x/KgA7PgE Omar: requests for customizing the home page, and requests to use non-YouTube video sources for DRM reasons. Ed: if adding more default blocks causes performance issues, we need to be more careful about that decision. Also should have a shared set of default xblocks between web and mobile
Design Tokens for Mobile	@Ivan Stepanok	https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/x/MoDrPQE Ability to theme at run-time and ingest colors from Paragon Proposal includes a method of auto-generating dark theme colors Some questions around WCAG compliance

Original Themes

FY26 Goal: Adoption

Mobile previews in Studio
Mobile alternative flag
- allow educators to designate alternative blocks that satisfy completion requirements on mobile (ie: if a block type is not supported on mobile)
Improved course content navigation (sequence navigation or alternative matching more current LMS patterns)
Audio mobile learning
Alternative Delivery (carplay, TV)
Course goal personalization
Conversational style messaging
Mobile Discovery Feed
SCORM support for mobile
Open edX Sandbox mobile app
Gamification / engagement tools
- Nudges
Learner Activity Feed
Learn with Others
Learner Profile