Session 1: Overview of OppiaMobile and Creating First Learning Activity

Time: 1 hour

Objectives

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the components of OppiaMobile platform and functions of each

  • Describe the function of Moodle within the OppiaMobile platform

  • Create a learning activity in Moodle and export to Oppia

  • Add an image to the learning activity

Activities

  • Introductions

  • Describe key features of OppiaMobile (see: OppiaMobile Key Features)

  • Describe architecture and components of OppiaMobile, especially Moodle for course authoring

  • Access a Moodle course and turn editing on

  • Basic course structure, levels of activities and how they get represented when exported to OppiaMobile

  • Activity types supporting in OppiaMobile (see: Activity types supported)

  • Adding a section/topic title

  • Adding an HTML page activity

  • Adding an image to the page

  • Exporting to OppiaMobile server - options available on export

  • Test viewing the course on the device

Follow up and preparation for next session

  • Review full documentation for course development (see: Creating your course in Moodle).

  • Add some more pages to their course and review how it appears in the OppiaMobile app.