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Schools typically use a purpose-built application for Student Management (an SMS), more-or-less isolated from their Moodle. It should be easier to output AVETMISS data from the SMS than from Moodle.

The SMS is usually part of a complex qualification process for getting demographic-linked subsidies. It needs minimal information about the content of courses because funding does not (yet) depend on qualitative aspects of learner performance.	The VLE is part of a mass of teacher/learner interactions, and not oriented around demographics because it is possible to teach well without background information about students.
The essential documentary output of an SMS is authorisation for a student ID for specific courses.	The essential documentary output of a VLE is a statement of achievement (grades).

AVETMISS specs require a lot of fields that are not in Moodle:
http://www.ncver.edu.au/statistics/avetmiss60/vetprovider/vetprov_collection_specs60.pdf

Data might be stored in existing spare fields and repurposing a few, but only if:

1. All of your Course Creators strictly follow a protocol regarding all of the Course and Assignment identifiers and names, etc.

2. Validation rules are applied to user profile data and course data after it has been created.

I had assumed that all RTOs had a Student Administration System with much more (relevant) detail than Moodle (at least for billing purposes!). Are there any RTOs that don't?