• Apple Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/my-moodle/id461289000?mt=8#
• Here’s a great review by Gavin Henrick: http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2011/09/09/official-moodle-mobile-app-for-iphone-released/

From the product page:

The official Moodle app is now available on the App store. Designed as a mobile complement to the web version, you can:
- upload pictures and video (picked from your gallery or captured with your camera)
- record an audio file and upload it
- view the participant list of your courses
- view information about the participants
- send a private message
- add a private note about someone
- work offline with automatic synchronization
- add a participant to your iPhone/iPad contacts
- access the web version of your Moodle site
- access Moodle documentation

Moodlenews: how much is the app (or is it free)?

Ali:  The app will not be free, I’m sorry. As the vendor of other mobile apps for Moodle I know that Moodlers does not feel comfortable with paying for an app which resides in the ecosystem of a free and open source software. But there is also a traditional saying “We have to look after our kids”. I wish our auxiliary incomes were enough to support a free mobile Moodle app to all moodlers but this is not the case at least for the time being. So the app will be available on the AppStore, once it is approved, for 2.99 USD which is also the same price for our mTouch and mTouch+.

Moodlenews: how, in your opinion, is the file upload process lacking/deficient on the iPad if you aren’t using moodlEZ?

I haven’t yet tested the official app but included some links and quick notes gleaned from the development page (http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Mobile_app). If you’re not ready to update to Moodle 2.1 but want Mobile functionality check out the matrix, complete with reviews and testing notes.  My personal favorite for 1.9 is the free and very easy/useful MLE: http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/mobile-app-review-mle/.

Enjoy and chime in on the discussion at our Mobile page.

For more information about the pending release of Moodle 2.1 and the Mobile Moodle App visit:

• 2.1: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.1_release_notes
• mobile: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Mobile_app

myMobile Alpha is a new theme created by John Stabinger (http://stabinger.us/) which allows for better mobile access of a Moodle 2 site.  The theme is not intended for allowing teachers and admins to manage their resources and content (or the site settings) but is intended to provide a cleaner, better end-user experience for Moodle access via mobile devices.

According to the site,

MyMobile is a new theme for Moodle 2.x. Built using the Jquery mobile UI, it is designed to bring a mobile-optimized interface to your moodle 2 install.

For more information on the myMobile Alpha theme:

• John’s introductory post at: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=174104
• The theme entry: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&rid=4757
• The official theme page: http://mymobile.stabinger.us/
• Watch a video of the theme in action: [link]

I’m excited.

Here’s a full list of what you can expect for changes if you upgrade to mTouch 2.0.1:

• 3G connectivity bug fixed
• Moodle 2 Support
• User interface improvements
• Stability bug fixes
• Open documents from other apps and send documents to other apps
• Take photos and upload to Moodle
• Upload saved photos to Moodle
• Download files from web and upload them to Moodle
• New theme named SmallerFont a variant of the default theme
• Login to Moodle from https and access content through http

The new photo/picture features seem promising and more in tune with the vision that Moodle HQ has put forth for their own official app.

For more information or to purchase/download visit

• mTouch
• mTouch+
• You may also be interested in mTouch-U, a universal app for Moodle which can be used on Android as well.

Please note that Moodlenews has not tested this newest release (but we have utilized mTouch and mTouch+ in the past both on iPad and iPod Touch).  Visit http://moodlenews.com/mobile for more information and reviews.

You can check out all the progress that this project is making at http://code.google.com/p/moodbile/.

Moodbile will reportedly create a very simple navigation process for gaining access to course, support forums and online text and will ultimately (according to the Moodbile.org site) provide and maintain webservices for Moodle.org.

When it is ready I’ll be sure to check it out thoroughly.  In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek of the user interface:

In addition, Ali and his team have been working to add additional functionality (some of which is pretty slick) to bring more utility and power to Moodle on a handheld.  A few of the new features and improvements include:

• Ability to access the camera while using mTouch (allowing direct upload of captured images to Assignments)
• Document sharing between mTouch and other apps
• and more!

A full list of the new features and some great information about the 2.0 compatibility is available at the newly themed Moodletouch.com [link to announcement].

It’s features include,

• quick logins
• posts the newest information available to you
• adds classmate contact information to your Google contacts (optional)
• formats Moodle pages cleanly

*I’ll be testing this in the next few days and we’ll be updating the Moodlenews.com/Mobile matrix of mobile apps.  Have you given it a try?  Let us know in the comments.

The coolest part (I think) is taking a gander at their annotated screenshot of a course view and how they plan to optimize the presentation and maximize use of space by just the simplest of tweaks.

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