Mobile application is not limited to entertainment & gamification, but it has several other useful benefits too, such as education.
Yes, that’s true! A mobile app can be of great value in terms of education and information.
If you too, as a startup or a small business owner, thinking to develop a mobile application for education, this blog post is for you.
Here, I am going to share 7 essential features that an educational mobile application must have.
#1 Interactive
When we talk about education, we don’t think out-of-the-box ideas, especially interaction. But in case of a mobile application, we do need to take care of its interactivity.
There are hundreds or even thousands of educational mobile apps, but are all of them successful? No.
For any app to be successful, it has to pass the interactivity test.
Therefore, if you are planning to build a mobile app for education, you need to sure that:
- The content is mobile-friendly.
- The information is for your targeted audience.
- The content is easy-to-understand.
- The content is filled with fun elements.
#2 Assessment
For every educational mobile app, assessment is an essential feature to enable the participants test their knowledge. These assessments could be in the form of quiz & mock tests.
The assessments will help your app users to evaluate their key-strengths or weaknesses in different subjects, modules or topics.
Your app can also send out the certificates to the participants, upon successful completion of their assessment tests.
#3 Gamification
We all know that students are fascinated towards gadgets & devices.
What’s more.
Various studies have proved that students learn much faster through fun & experiments.
Therefore, adding a feature of gamification will definitely attract your targeted audiences to download your mobile app & enrol for your courses. It will also make the user-experience of your application much better.
#4 Live Tutorials
Live tutorials will help your app users to attend the course through their devices, from anywhere in the world.
Along with the live tutorials, you can also request your app developer to provide an option for the students to interact with the trainers through the application and resolve their queries instantly.
This feature of live tutorials are not available with most of the educational mobile apps, as of now.
So, it’s a golden opportunity for you to consider this feature if you are planning to build a mobile app.
#5 Push Notifications
Push notification feature is a very useful tool to market the services & products of any business, through mobile applications.
Here are but important reasons for your mobile application developer to include push notifications in your proposal:
- Push notifications enhance user-engagement & user-experience.
- Push notifications help to increase your conversions.
- Push notifications help to re-engage with the users.
- Push notification is best for direct marketing.
Through a push notification feature, you can send out instant messages to your existing user base and inform them about new courses, discounts, events or any other update.
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#6 Video-based Contents
It’s a well known fact that we human beings learn faster & better with visuals than just texts. And videos are great for explaining any topic or concept through visuals.
Therefore, you must also consider adding educational videos in your mobile application that your participants can watch, anytime & anywhere.
With the video-based contents, your participants can pause, replay, rewind or forward any piece of course content according to their preferences.
#7 Social Sharing
Everybody is on social media. Your targeted audience too.
Therefore, your app should have an option for the users to share the courses, topics or modules with their friends and community members.
Adding a feature of social sharing on your mobile application will help you to enhance your business branding & get more traffic on your mobile app too.