Using Moodle as a portal?

Using Moodle as a portal?

by Gerrard Shaw -
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Hi all,

We're in the midst of a Moodle project at the moment and part of it is wanting to replace our website at the same time as use Moodle as a single portal for website and course info.

I'm using the Newbury Theme so have a DHTML menubar to link pages from but I can't see a way to make a course that Guest users can access without prompts to login or click the Guest button?

Is there a way to make Moodle behave like a website for a certain course and \ or pages so people without a login can view pages on the site in the same way they can view the front page, news items etc?

Thanks,

Gerrard

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Re: Using Moodle as a portal?

by Mary Cooch (personal account) -
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HI there. Yes, you can is the short answer. Our school Moodle serves as our site as well as our Moodle and so the front page and links to it are all open access to guests via open courses - have a look at the links at the top of the Moodle and those on the side. You have to log in to get to the password protected courses. It is not a professionally designed website - it is a school Moodle but it works for our community smile

http://www.olchs.lancs.sch.uk

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Re: Using Moodle as a portal?

by Gerrard Shaw -
Hi Mary,

Thanks for your reply, looks exactly what we want to do. I've noticed the top of your Moodle says "using Guest access". Is this a setting you enabled for all users by default so it avoids the login \ enrolment boxes when viewing the pages?

Edit: found the Guest autologin box in User settings and also re-enabled Guest access (was turned off) and it seems to do the trick :D

Regards,

Gerrard
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Re: Using Moodle as a portal?

by Joe K -

Hi,

One of the things you may want to consider is using an openSource CMS as a portal which gives a lot of flexibility and use moodle for the course management. There are lot of discussion on Joomal and Drupal here. Just search the forums. ( I use joomla for that purpose, easy, opensource and feature rich..)

Hoe this helps

Joe K 

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Re: Using Moodle as a portal?

by Paul M -
if you use joomla, you can get full user integration with jfusion. They have a supported moodle plugin:

http://www.jfusion.org

This allows you to login only once and your users to be integrated automatically within joomla and moodle.
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Re: Using Moodle as a portal?

by Michael Penney -
Hi Gerrard, to open courses to guest access without login, check Auto Login Guests on your User Policies page.

When testing, clear your cache (if you have a cookie from a previous login on your computer you'll want to clear that for testing how it will work for users who have never logged in).

Very nice portal type sites can be made using Moodle, a few that I've worked on: americasprofessor.com, ciscoinstitute.net, ati.calstate.edu.



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