Hi
I have a fully functional integrated system of Moodle (2.2) and Mahara (1.4) with mnet.
I was wondering if below are possible:
- If a course is created in Moodle, can a group be created in Mahara automatically with the same course name.
- If a user enrolls in a course in Moodle can the user be assigned to a group automatically.
- If a user completes a course in Moodle, can a protfolio on Mahara be populated automatically.
Do I need to use webservices to do the above?
I think the best strategy will be indeed to call Mahara's Web services that are very similar, but not identical yet with Moodle 2.2.see https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Plugins/Artefact/WebServices ) ; they have already functions to create groups and enrol users, but not yet to populate a fortfolio.
On the Moodle side, in order not to modify core code, you should write 'local events handlers' see http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Events_API and perform calls to Mahara by handling the following events : course_created and user_enrolled. Currently course_completed event does not exist but is on the 'wish list' ;-(
For more details see http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Local_customisation ; not well documented in 2.x yet but very similar to 1.9 implementation described here http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Local_customisation_(Moodle_1.9)#Local_event_subscriptions
Cheers.
Hi Patrick
Thank you very much for your reply. It was very informative and I like your approach of calling Mahara web services and using local event handlers in Moodle.
I will get started now and update you on this. Thanks again.
Hello everyone,
Anybody knows if there is any advanced in this issue? I am very interested in automacally creation groups in Mahara. Any documentation link with information about the possibilities of Mahara-Moodle integration?
Thank you in advanced.
Silvia
