Google Docs Repo and Moodle 2.2

Google Docs Repo and Moodle 2.2

by Stephen Poynter -
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I have enabled the Google Docs repository on our Moodle server, but I'm getting the following error every time I try to connect to Google with my personal account.  We aren't using Google Apps on campus.  I'm just trying to enable it for people to connect with their personal accounts.  Is this not possible?  Here is the error:

The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:

The site "http://xxxxx.edu" has not been registered.  (where xxxx is our domain name)
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In reply to Stephen Poynter

Re: Google Docs Repo and Moodle 2.2

by Michael Haskell -

We recently started seeing this error on both our 2.1 and 2.2 installation.  It seems sometime in the last week Google started *requiring* validating and activating your domain for use with Google Apps API, wheras previosly this was optional.  The Google Apps API is how the Google Docs repository plugin communicates with Google.

Stephen, there are steps here if you haven't found them already:
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-29857

Here is general information from Google ( helpful for clarifying what your target prefix should be ):
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/RegistrationForWebAppsAuto

We started evaluating Apps for education recently and thought this might have triggered the strict requirement.  It's interesting you are seeing this error in the same timeframe as well.

I'm also interested in the roadmap for the Google Docs repository in moodle, since the AuthSub mechanism is now deprecated:
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/AuthSub

I'll have to check and see if this is something that is being actively maintained ( updated to OAuth2? )

 

 

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