Updated 5/10/12: Minutes from this meeting
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The University-wide Mobile Apps Group met last week for the first time since February 8. A few updates that are relevant to faculty:
Blackboard Learn Mobile App for ANGEL
- Since the Learning Management System (LMS) Work Group is now considering staying with Angel as an option, the University is doing a full-blown trial of Blackboard Mobile Learn for Angel to see if it can meet student/faculty mobile needs.
- The mobile version does not have all of the features that the standard Angel interface does – most notably, the gradebook and assignment dropbox are not fully accessible from the mobile app.
- Faculty can try it out by downloading the app (the “New” version with the red ribbon on the icon) to their mobile device.
Review of Mobile App Survey Results
- Lori Nidoh shared results from the Spring 2012 Mobile App and Services Survey that they ran on campus. Lori’s presentation (pptx) is here: 2012 Mobile Survey Findings
- Most of the survey respondents were current undergraduate students – only about 3% were faculty.
- Survey respondents were very interested in getting mobile access to Angel. Mobile access to Angel was ranked most highly (average of 3.9 out of 5) of a list of suggested future features, and more than 60% of respondents ranked it as the University resource they’re most interested in accessing from their phone.
Android access to the my.scranton portal
- CTLE put together a spreadsheet showing the level of access to the my.scranton portal from different Android devices. Their spreadsheet (xlsx): 04-19-12-PortalAccess-AndroidDevices-SummarySheet
