At CALIcon12, Prof. Wiseman demonstrated how to convert a course website to a Chrome app. As of about the date of CALIcon18, Google is no longer supporting Chrome apps, having replaced them with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). This session will explain why converting course websites to PWAs might make sense, and how to do it.
While this session should have some appeal to faculty who want to know why and how to convert their course websites into PWAs, it should also be of interest to IT folks wanting to help their faculty to do so (or who just have an interest in PWAs). Unlike Chrome apps, which were rather simple to create, PWAs, at least at their most sophisticated, are not. The essential elements of PWAs, the manifest and the service worker, will be briefly explained and their use to create an app demonstrated.
This presentation will be rather more technical than originally intended, PWAs being hard to grasp without going "under the hood".
