Good morning everybody,
I have an interesting and difficult problem and I want your thoughts on it.
The thing we want to achieve is: We have a Moodle based environment with exercises for children and we want schools to use it. We want them to log in and do the exercise in our Moodle environment.
The problem is that schools use different environments so we can not just link them (Moodle with Moodle for example). We want them to login into their own environment and choose a course and then automatically login in our environment. We also would like to store the grades in both environments...
is there a way to achieve this or should I look at the possibility to load our SCORM package into their environment...? Or is it impossible?
Please let me know when my story is in any way confusing =)
Thanks,
Moodle doesn't support SCORM export.
I know that, but i think there are more solutions like loading a external SCORM and deleting the installation afterwards for example?
So you want (a) single sign on with user details, and (b) gradebook transfer to an arbitrary environment (which might be running any kind of software)? Wow. Both these are possible but I think they'd likely be significant custom developments... for Moodle and for whatever the other system is too.
You might look into, eh I forget what it's called but whatever Chuck Severance gave a presentation about here recently... there's some vaguely IMS standard that currently is only in 'basic' version - he claims it has support in some VLEs (although that claim included Moodle, and we don't think it is in core, maybe there is contrib code somewhere). Anyhow, that could be a way to implement single sign-on, but it would still need to be developed (at least the 'server' end if not the client). And I believe grade transfer was in a future version of the standard not known yet. Oh yeah - tools interoperability is what it was called? Maybe?
Probably more of a future thing than solving your problem now, but this happened to remind me of it. If there was an enrol plugin for Moodle that used this IMS system to automatically let people into selected courses (within the ratty little iframe these systems use) then this would handle this type of requirement. (Except not grades at the moment.)
--sam
You might look into, eh I forget what it's called but whatever Chuck Severance gave a presentation about here recently... there's some vaguely IMS standard that currently is only in 'basic' version - he claims it has support in some VLEs (although that claim included Moodle, and we don't think it is in core, maybe there is contrib code somewhere). Anyhow, that could be a way to implement single sign-on, but it would still need to be developed (at least the 'server' end if not the client). And I believe grade transfer was in a future version of the standard not known yet. Oh yeah - tools interoperability is what it was called? Maybe?
Probably more of a future thing than solving your problem now, but this happened to remind me of it. If there was an enrol plugin for Moodle that used this IMS system to automatically let people into selected courses (within the ratty little iframe these systems use) then this would handle this type of requirement. (Except not grades at the moment.)
--sam
Thank you very much for the answer. I will look into it =)
sam is referring to the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification.