EdApp

What is EdApp?

EdApp is a commercial mobile LMS.
It is a microlearning based mobile learning management system with integrated authoring tool, spaced repetition & gamification (EdApp, n.d.).
EdApp offers content creation online with interactive features, gamification components that is designed for mobile delivery.
It has a mobile app for the students .

Note: This overview of the product is done in early Feb, 2019, as the product is changing over time. You can pick and choose what interests you.

You can choose to watch the screencast for the features or read and click through links that are of interest.

Features - Overview

Watch a screencast

Overview (login page, dashboard for teachers, the course page) - 2 minutes.

Or read

Login page to login as student (learn) or teacher (admin).
- If you want to do both, you will need 2 separate email addresses.
Dashboard [1] shows recent activities and analytics.
- Also quick access to tutorials [2] or chat support [3].
Courses [4] - each course can have multiple lessons
- Lessons consists of slide like interface for authoring,
- Default to start with a title slide and an end slide,
- Branding, access rules, prerequisites, documents and completion settings.
Users [5] - managing students and invite them.
Engage [6] - prizes for gamification from the leaderboard feature.
Analytics [7] - a range of analytics for your courses.

Features - Lesson Editing

Watch a screencast

EdApp Lesson editing features (lesson editing screen and layout, adding a new slide, slide templates) - 3 minutes.

Or read

Image: Lesson editing screen

Image: Slide content library

More details on the content templates: (Links go to the company website with images and descriptions).

Content - these are the microlearning content slides, 21 options, from text, images, videos to a combination.
Concepts - reinforcing a single concept through filling in the blanks, reconstruct sentences, or strike out words,
Multiple Choice - a variety of doing multiple choices questions,
Numbers - different ways to answer number questions,
Relationships - connect, matching type questions,
Games - T/F, word jumble, memory.. etc games,
Surveys - this has a free text option, along with choices and sliders,
Advanced - a few option to bring in external content, such as SCORM, external URL and AICC content, or
Import from an existing slide from another lesson.

Other features

New leaderboard feature.

Student view

Apart from seeing what the authoring tool can do, you'd want to try it out to see what the learners see.

There are 3 options for you to choose:

1) EdApp course library contains many example lessons, so you can try them out without needing to login.

Most of them have multiple lessons to choose from and get a good idea of what the tool offers.

2) You can login as a student, then select "Try Our Demo Account" option.

The same option is offered if you download the app on your phone.

3) Try this short demo lesson that I've created:

Login: https://web.edapp.com/
Code: "ETEC523-A1-SE" (without the quotation marks).
EdApp will ask you for an email and a password (I can't turn this off).

Note: If you've used an email address for EdApp before, even as a student account, you may run into problems.

😀 Pros

Nice user interface on the mobile,
Relatively easy to create content,
Instant mobile preview as you build content,
Provides demo lessons to showcase features,
Built-in tutorials and on-screen hints for features,
Lots of options and templates for layout and activities,
Free trial for up to 20 users.

🙁 Cons

Need separate email address for student vs. admin accounts,
Mobile app has bad review - can crash easily,
Admins/ teachers cannot author via the mobile app,
Lack of social learning element,
No learner created content capabilities,
Potentially confusing sign-up process if a learner had an account already but is given an invite code for a new course.

Best practices from EdApp

EdApp company has kindly provided links to resources to help make our creation of microlearning lessons more successful:

Microlearning best practice, including demo lessons of EdApp itself without needing to login.
Micro lesson plan: how to make the best in 4 steps article
Spaced repetition and the forgetting curve article

My verdict of the app

The app is simple enough to use but can also be restrictive in terms of the types of content you can include. It also has some issues around registrations, which is not ideal. I am impressed with the focus on a mobile delivery during the authoring process.

The most important question is, would I use it?

It is a maybe, as a small trial with real students, only if there's a scenario where the mobile delivery is essential, and microlearning strategy is appropriate to be applied.

An example I can think of, may be for tutor training, where we want them to remember some key elements of an active classroom. This app could be used to deploy the content as preparation before training, and as just-in-time resource as a job aid.

I don't work for EdApp. There are plenty alternatives to look into if you are interested. There are perhaps too many options out there, best to talk to people and get references and real user experiences before making a decision to purchase or implement wider.

Alternative microlearning apps

The 10 Best Microlearning Platforms by eLearning Industry.
Comparing LMSs by eLearning Industry (not limited to ones with mobile apps).
Best microlearning software with reviews by Capterra.

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