Enabling Offline Learning with Moodle

David Drummond

Enabling Offline Learning with Moodle

• What is meant by Offline Learning?

• What are the goals of UNICEF Offline

Learning goals?

• What we have done?

Offline Learning

• What is meant by Offline Learning?

• Static content vs Interactive courses

• Completion Synchronisation

• Mobility?

Offline Learning

What has been done before?

– Moodle “on a Stick”

– Poodle

– Incremental Backups

– Moodle Mobile

– MaharaDroid

– Moo-Droid

What did we do?

Two Pronged Approach:

– Content Delivery Network

– Offline Player

Offline Player – Technical

Requirements

1) Solution must work on Windows 7 & 8

2) Solution must have the capacity to run at

least 1 Gig of courses

3) Solution must be able to identify

participant and report completion Results

back to main Totara LMS. Identity must

be in sync.

4) Solution must be able to swap between

off-line and on-line modes

5) Solution must be able to expire content

after a period of time

Technical Choices

• Self-contained Moodle

• Apache Server

• MySQL

• Streamlined interface

• Distribution:

• On a stick

• Windows installer

• The dream of true cross-platform support

still eludes ...

Roadmap

• Feature Development

• Automatic Updates

• Forum support

• Continuing Learning in multiple locations

• Server hosted version for LANs

• Tin Can API – side effect

Community Release

• Coming Soon

• “On a stick” version required

Credits

• Dan Marsden - Developer

• Paul Walker - Graphic Design

• UNICEF for funding, in particular Abel

Henry for the guiding vision