UML Quiz - Automatic Conversion of Web-Based E-Learning Content in Mobile Applications

Aug 29, 2026

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Many educational institutions deliver e-learning through Learning Management Systems, yet quiz content is typically optimized for the web and becomes difficult to use on mobile devices. UML Quiz is a native mobile application that imports quiz material from Moodle and automatically adapts it for mobile usage by converting size and layout. The paper presents key design decisions, usability optimizations, and evaluation results, and also discusses further improvements.

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Mobile quiz applications

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UML Quiz: AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF WEB-BASED E-LEARNING CONTENT IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS Alexander von Franqué and Hilda Tellioğlu Vienna University of Technology-Favoritenstrasse 9-11/187, A-1040 Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT Many educational institutions use Learning Management Systems to provide e-learning content to their students. This often includes quizzes that can help students to prepare for exams. However, the content is usually web-optimized and not very usable on mobile devices. In this work a native mobile application ( UML Quiz) that imports quiz content from Moodle and adapts it for a mobile environment has been developed. The result is highly usable and promising. The existing teaching content can be easily used in the new system by offering advantages of mobile applications. In this paper, the design decisions for UML Quiz and the usability optimizations to the content are presented. The results are evaluated and further possible improvements are discussed. KEYWORDS E-learning, m-learning, mobile, usability, native, automatic content adaption, automatic content conversion. 1. INTRODUCTION Many educational institutions use web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS) to provide e-learning content to their students. Popular examples include Moodle, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and ILIAS. Besides being a well-known and mostly used system Moodle “is not intrinsically designed to be accessed through mobile devices, but the constructivism pedagogy supported in Moodle VLE could be applied to design the interaction in m-learning”(Hewagamage et al., 2012, p.2) . Moodle does not fully support JavaScript. This makes it difficult to access via mobile devices. Most of the LMS platforms include quiz modules. These quizzes can, for example, help students to prepare for exams. However, these platforms rarely offer easy access for mobile devices, especially not with native applications. Native applications offer numerous (usability) advantages over web-based apps, especially if they are running on mobile devices. However, the creation of native apps is time-consuming and expensive. In this work we propose a native mobile quiz application ( UML Quiz) that can deal with web-optimized e-learning content in a way that preserves usability and encourages easier learning. It is accompanied with an automatic system that converts the web-optimized data into a mobile-friendly format, both in size and layout. A few optimizations and enhancements to the data are being used to make the application compelling and easy to use, even though the data was not originally prepared for this specific device. UML Quiz has been developed natively for iPhone and iPad to use for teaching at Vienna University of Technology (TU) . The course supported by UML Quiz is about basics of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to students of computer science and business informatics. In this course, a modified version of Moodle (TUWEL) is being used to display quizzes to the students, which they can use to prepare for exams. These quizzes include lots of diagrams of different sizes and very long questions and answers. The system we propose imports the existing, web-optimized data from TUWEL and deals gracefully with these types of questions. It allows the university to keep using the existing data and displays it in a highly usable manner on a mobile screen. In the next section we briefly introduce relevant related work before we analyze UML Quiz in this research scope. We also will touch upon other work that adapts web-content for mobile devices. Section 3 presents implementation details of UML Quiz with a focus on design and usability decisions. Section 4 shows the evaluation of the results, which we further explored for future work. 2. RELATED WORK In this section, we want to show some other systems developed so far. Second, we want to focus on usability and content conversion in such systems. We will also highlight the differences to our system

FAQs

What problem does UML Quiz address in mobile learning?

Most web-optimized LMS quiz content is hard to use on mobile devices. UML Quiz converts and adapts existing quiz data for a mobile-friendly experience.

How does UML Quiz handle quiz content originally prepared for web platforms?

It includes an automatic system that imports data from Moodle/TUWEL and converts both size and layout to fit mobile screens.

What does the paper focus on besides implementation?

The paper covers design decisions and usability optimizations, evaluates the results, and discusses potential future improvements.

Aug 29, 2026

Uploaded by Connor