New Feature in iLite Mobile Moodle

We have added a new feature! The iLite Mobile Moodle now shows all the attempts made in a quiz and scows all the scores for all the attempts in a specific quiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see in this image, this shows you all the courses that iLite Mobile Moodle has.

Select the course “French in Moodle”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As depicted in this image, all the quizzes for “French in Moodle” are displayed.

Select the quiz “Basics”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see by the above image, there were two attempts on the quiz “Basics” with the date and the score.

- Kirsten

New Additions to iLite Mobile Moodle

We have added to additional features to Mobile, they are My Profile and My Grades.

My Profile

Shows a list of your details, your name, User ID, email, city, country and when you first and last accessed the site.

My Grades

This shows a list of all the courses that you are registered for. When you select a course, it shows the quiz and the grade obtained for that quiz.

http://www.ilite.co.za/mlearn/ (mary, password)

Mobile is only available to clients who host with iLite. For more information please contact me and I will gladly assist.

- Kirsten

Download a trial version of the iLite Moodle Dashboard

Visit iLite to download the 7 day trial version of the iLite Moodle Dashboard.

There are some funky new additions to the Dashboard which include the multi-lingual support, improved User search functionality and the Course Relationship Map.

The Course Relationship Map is something completely unique to the Dashboard. As you can see in the image below, we can see that the Course – iLite Dashboard, has 8 Users. We can also see that 5 of the 8 Users have a small (+) sign below them. This indicates that they are enrolled in other Courses. By clicking on the (+) sign, we expand a 3rd level, which shows the Courses that this User has enrolled for. Hover over the icon to view the Course name.

You may be wondering what is the purpose of the Relationship map, well it is to help you see what Courses the Users are doing at a glance. If a Course has prerequisites, you can view if they have been met simply by calling up the Relationship map.

- Kirsten

 

iLite Mobile Learning for the iPhone

It is exciting times here at iLite. We have just finish developing the interface for the iPhone. What happens here is that this interface extracts your data from Moodle and allows you to view it on your iPhone.

Visit http://www.ilite.co.za/i/ to have a look at this component. Please play around and send any feedback or comments that you may have to me at kirsten@ilite.co.za

Username:  ian

Password:  password

- Kirsten

Dashboard going multi-lingual

It’s time for another sneak preview of the Dashboard. We have been hard at work for several months now trying to make the Dashboard unique, interactive and visually stimulating. New features include a multi-lingual function and has provisions so far for 6 languages, which are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and German. We will look at adding more languages as we get closer to the release date.

Another new and exciting feature is the Degrafa graph inside the datagrid. This allows the scores to be more visually stimulating.  The courses that the user is enrolled for is also listed as well as their quiz results and the course interactivity.

-Kirsten

Course Prerequisites

We have just recently identified the need to create a number of courses that have other courses as prerequisites.

So for example you need to do Courses A, B and C, but you must do them in that order. If a User tries to do Course B before having done Course A, the User is notified that Course A is a prerequisite, and is then given a link to go and do Course A.

I checked Moodle, but did not find such a solution. If anyone knows of such a solution, please let me know.

I have a possible solution, and will be posting the code here in a few days time.

Sean

Dashboard on AIR

So after playing around a bit with AIR, I finally decided to go that route and build a version of the Dashboard. Looking down the road, I think this may become the only version we will maintain and release. If you would like to give the AIR version a trial, you can do so by clicking on the icon below and downloading it.

Once you have downloaded and installed the AIR app, you can log in using the username: miranda, and the password: password

To test it on your own site you will need to download and install a few php file, and register on our site. If you would like to know more about the Dashboard and why it will make your life easier, drop us a mail.

What’s the score

The Dashboard makes viewing a Users scores very easy. In the image below you can see that the iLite Dashboard course has two quizzes. When selecting this course from the list of courses the student has done, both scores are immediately displayed, both as a percentage and graphically. Had a score or more than 80% been achieved, the bar would have been in green. Just another way using the Dashboard makes tracking your users easier.

Moodle Mobile

A while ago we were working on a mobile solution for Moodle. One of the problems we faced was getting the images to load. Well, that problem has been solved, and we also managed to add a Flash lite quiz to one of our course (Whales). So if you are keen to see what we have been up to take a look at http://www.ilite.co.za/mlearn/ (mary, password)

Basically it works as follows. In Moodle we created a category called Mobile. Any course in this category will be available when you log into the mobile site. We did not do anything to Moodle, but instead opted to write a little PHP to format the content for a small screen. We used a small work-around for the images and Flash file. Getting the results from Flash written back to Moodle is on our wish list. It’s easy enough to do, but getting our developer to sit down and do it is the problem. Maybe more stick and less carrot is what is needed.

Mobile Login screen	Menu
Whales - Overview screen	Whales - content

Dashboard testing

Where are looking for a few beta testers for our Moodle dashboard application. If there are any of you out there running Moodle 1.9 and would like to deploy and test the dashboard, drop us a mail.

UserID to view the demo dashboard:

Username: mary
Password: password

Requirements:

1. Basic knowledge of PHP. You will have to update the config file, and copy some folders to the root of your server. The Dashboard uses the PHP files to access the Moodle DB and return data. This is only a READ, and nothing will be touched, modified or changed in your DB.
2. A userID

What to do:

1. Copy the PHP folder to your server
2. Copy the Flash folder to your server
3. Create an ID at iLite (or we can send you one)
4. Update the config.php file with your Moodle details

How the Dashboard works.
The Dashboard uses the PHP files on your server to retrieve the data from your Moodle database. AMFPHP is used, which gives us a little more performance. Use the icons at the top to navigate between the different screens.

If you would like more information, or have some ideas about how we can improve it, please drop me a mail at kirsten@ilite.co.za

If your idea is good enought, we’ll use it and give you a copy of the Dashboard free.

All that we would like from you is a little feedback on how the Dashboard is preforming. Things you do like and things you don’t like. Information like the OS you are using, the number of users and courses you have and whether you are using SCORM Activities.

Kirsten