We consider mobile learning a very serious field which requires expertise in both application and user experience levels. Moodle is a fantastic LMS and we feel obliged to contibute to mobile aspects of Moodle which makes it stand out among the competirors like Blackboard and Sakai.
Actively developing line of business applications in a local university, we are very close to students and we try to probe what they actually want from a mobile LMS application. Students want to be able to "touch" Moodle right on their mobile devices, they do not want a "moodle page" full of information with no interaction.
We redesigned mTouch for iPad from scratch. We did not choose the easy way, resize existing views and treat iPad as if it is a larger iPhone or iPod Touch and push every aspect of mTouch into a SplitView. We use tabs, multi windowing, fancy animations, modal views and pop-over windows which are all new concepts for iPad. We also plan to include some new usability features like bookmarking, saving content on the device for offline viewing and multiple copy/paste buffer.
We plan to offer the "better functionality" for the "same price" and still require no server side installation or tweaking.
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mTouch+ has the following layout features for easy access
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Tabbed view of activities
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Multi-windowed environment
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Activity window docking
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Activity window resizing
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Modal view for data entry (assignments, forum posts, glossary entry)
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Easily accessible copy-paste buffer (copy data from multiple windows to the buffer and paste to any window from the buffer)
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Fancy animations
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Specialized browser to access unsupported activity blocks like (Surveys, Wikis, Lessons)