eFront offers a mobile app for Android and iOS users. The app is free to download through the Play store and the App store. The app is designed for learners only and it supports the following types of content:
- Simple text
- HTML text
- Vimeo/YouTube (not available for offline use)
- Video
- PPT
- Images
- Units containing iframes with an external source (not available for offline use)
- MS Office files (for Android users it is partially supported by Google docs viewer and only for online use)
- SCORM (HTML5 based only)
- Slideshare (not available for offline use)
- Tincan content
- Tests with a non-supported type of questions
- Assignment units
- ILT units (session/webinar/conferences)
- Units containing an object or embedded elements
- Units containing an iframe and simple text
- Units containing an iframe with an external source
- H5P content
The mobile app supports tests that include only the following question types:
- Drag and Drop
- Empty Spaces (only with the option "Display alternatives in select box" selected)
- Multiple choices with a Single answer
- Multiple choices with Many answers
- True/False
- Free-text with keywords
- Randomized tests
- With password (enabled the option "require a password to start the test")
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Note: Survey units use questions in the same way as the Test units do, so, as it happens with Tests, Surveys as well are supported when using supported question types only
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Offline functionality
Some of the content types can also be available when the users are Offline, meaning that they don't have access to the Internet. When they are back online, any progress made while being offline will be synched.
Tests and surveys are available while the users are offline. This means that in case a user does not have access to mobile data (3G, 4G, etc) or Wi-Fi, they will be able to complete a test or survey. Furthermore, they can access any uploaded video files but they cannot view videos from YouTube/Vimeo since this action requires an active internet connection. They can also access any uploaded audio, PDF files, HTML, and simple text units.
A compatible unit is automatically downloaded and made available for offline use as soon as the user views it.
Alternatively, the user can download an entire course for offline use, by visiting it and tapping the Download all content for offline use button at the bottom of the Course screen, or by tapping the three dots button at the top-right corner of the screen and selecting Download all content for offline use.
Deleting downloaded content:
- To delete all of the downloaded content, the user can visit their Profile screen and tap the "Clear database" button near the bottom.
- To delete the content of a certain course, the user can visit that course, tap on the three dots button at the top-right corner of the screen and select "Clear all downloaded content".
- To delete only a certain unit on iOS, the user can swipe the unit from right to left and tap on the revealed red "Clear content" button.
- To delete only a certain unit on Android, the user can long-press the unit and select "Clear content" from the menu that is revealed.
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Note 1: You are able to delete all or specific downloaded courses through the setting options
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Note 2: Non-compatible units (units that can not be viewed offline or the app does not support yet) will properly show on the unit list but the learner will not be able to open them. eFront will display the following message: "The unit is not available"
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Note 3:All SCORM content not explicitly designed to operate via a 3rd party server and not containing content hosted on 3rd party servers (e.g. YouTube/Vimeo) is also available offline
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