Title: Week 1 Going Mobile with Replace - Your LMS>
Course: Dev_TOPKIT_SAMPLE_COURSE_Bauer_S_67

Going Mobile With <Replace - Your LMS>

Mobile technologies are playing an increasingly important role in college students’ academic lives. The New Media Consortium’s 2014 Horizon Report listed mobile apps and mobile learning as key emerging technologies that have potential relevance to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in higher education (Johnson, Adams, Estrada, & Freeman, 2014).

To appreciate the landscape of this emerging technology on campus, a comparative study on adoption of mobile learning and eTextbooks at the University of Central Florida (UCF) was conducted. In 2012, UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) distributed the first survey to students and 933 completed the survey.

A follow-up survey was distributed in Spring 2014. A total of 1181 students completed the survey. These students were enrolled in 83 online, mixed-mode and face-to-face classes in Spring 2014 at UCF. The participants surveyed represented 12 different colleges with 91% being undergraduate and 68% being female.

The results of the survey can be found at:

2014 UCF Mobile & eTextbook Survey Report: https://mobile.cdl.ucf.edu/2014/12/15/2014-ucf-mobile-etextbook-survey-report/

Some of the key findings are shared below.

Why is mobile learning important?

- “Your students are using mobile devices, even if you don’t.”
- 95% Smartphone ownership at UCF* (national average is 84%**)
- 57% Tablet Ownership at UCF* (national average is 45%**)
- 73% of UCF students use smartphones for learning at least once a week*
- 45% of UCF students use tablets for learning at least once a week*

Learning Management System (LMS) Canvas Mobile Apps

Canvas by Instructure can be used on:

•        iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

•        Android Phone, Tablet

Supported Features on the Canvas by Instructure App

View Agenda

View Announcements

View Global Announcements

Create Announcements (Instructors)

Rely to Announcements

Delete Announcements (Instructors)

View Assignments

View Assignment Details

View Assignment Submission

View Assignment Rubric

Edit Assignments (Instructors)

Submit Assignments (Students)

Resubmit Assignment (Students)

View Assignment Comments

Add Assignment Comments

Schedule Reminders

View Course Files

Manage Course Files (Instructors)

Web-based LTIs
View Discussions

Allow Discussion Attachments

Create Discussions (Instructors)￼

Save Discussion as Draft (Instructors)

Reply to Discussions

Show Pinned Discussions

View Modules

View Notifications

View Pages

View People

View Profile Bio

View Quizzes

Take Quizzes

View Quiz Results

View Settings (Instructors)

Edit Settings (Instructors)

View Syllabus

View Grades (Students)

View What-If Scores (Students)

Other Canvas Mobile Apps, Devices, and Use

- SpeedGrader
  - iOS (iPad Only)
  - Android
  - Killer Feature: Grading on the go
- Teacher Tools
  - Android
  - Killer Features
    - Hot Seat
    - Guess Who
    - Student Notes

CANVAS MOBILE APP USAGE

- 91% Use Canvas Mobile apps at least once a week
- 77% Use Canvas Mobile apps several times a week
- N=629, 58% of respondents (1,177)

HOW ARE STUDENTS GETTING THERE?

Most used devices to frequently access Canvas (Webcourses) Mobile app

HOW ARE FACULTY GETTING THERE?

Most used devices to frequently access (Webcourses) Canvas Mobile app

WHAT’S IMPORTANT?

Students

•    76%: Grades

•    66%: Assignments

•    55%: To Do Items

•    48%: Modules

•    46%: Announcements

Faculty

•        80%: Inbox

•        60%: Grading

•        52%: Assignments

Most important features with Canvas mobile apps

TOOLS FOR FACULTY

MOBILE DESIGN

“Mobile is what you do between doing things.”

MOBILE DESIGN: CONTENT CHUNKING

Chunked

Content

CHUNKING: AVERAGE TIME IN CANVAS

CHUNKING: THE NEVERENDING SCROLL

CHUNKING: TABLE OF CONTENTS

FILE FORMATS: USER EXPERIENCE

FILE
SIZE

MOBILE DESIGN:
MOBILE FRIENDLY MEDIA

MOBILE FRIENDLY MEDIA:
STANDARDS, SERVICES, & CANVAS

MODULE DESIGN: INDENTS

MODULE DESIGN: TEXT HEADERS

USABILITY: STUDENT PROMPTS

MOBILE DESIGN: INFORM

REVIEW YOUR COURSES

Even if you don’t use mobile devices, review your course on a mobile device.

MORE MOBILE

•        Mobile Essentials Course

–    http://online.ucf.edu/?p=4251

•        Mobile App Checklist

–    http://ucfmobile.ucf.edu/checklist/

CDL Mobile & eTextbook Blog

http://mobile.cdl.ucf.edu

QUESTIONS?

TOPKit Sample Course created by Sue Bauer, John Raible, and Jessica Tojo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.