I made two stepsheets and tutorials on how to setup Moodle and Wordpress to work together using LTI.
Hope you find this useful. It is such an easy to use tool once you get it setup properly. This also includes an iFrame Security fix which will allow you to embed it into a moodle page by using a wordpress plugin created by Darcy W. Christ. A link to the plugin is in the Site Admin Stepsheet.
Thanks! I have added a link to this in the docs. http://docs.moodle.org/en/External_tool
Thank you Mary. You spelled my name wrong. You added an extra 'g'. It should be Kenniburg.
Hopefully others will want to experiment with Moodle LTI. This is really neat stuff. It really is easy to setup too once you get the hang of it.
Sorry - was in a hurry about to go out to a school event Corrected now although don't forget anyone can edit Moodle docs so you were welcome to beat me to it or even add more information if you feel it will be helpful. I look forward to getting the hang of this LTI stuff, which I haven't yet.
I tried modifying the Doc Page and it wouldn't accept my username and password from Moodle.org.
Ah -the other day apparently there was a problem logging in to the docs (it was ok if you were already logged in as I am for 30 days at a time) I believe it is fixed now so possibly you just tried on the day it decided not to work Hopefully another time you try it should accept your details.
Maybe it was that. I just changed my password for my account and it seemed to fix it. Apparently I have been grandfathered in and had a very simple password. Once I was brought up to the new security settings it worked.
Hi Chris
>Click “Save and Return to Course”.
>You can now click on the link in your course and it will open a new
>window with your new blog. You will also notice that you are already
>logged into your new blog.
>Students will also be automatically logged in as well
>
Nope. Students won't be automatically logged in as well - instead, they log in as my Wordpress Admin account (argh!).
I followed as best I could your instructions to setup the Moodle-Wordpress LTI at http://webmaster.dearbornschools.org/files/2012/10/Moodle-and-Wordpress-LTI-Tutorial.pdf.
However, I end up with
(1) Moodle automatically logging into the Wordpress with the Wordpress' admin account, when I login as a Moodle admin (that's FINE)
(2) Moodle automatically logging into the Wordpress with the Wordpress' admin account, EVEN THOUGH I log in first as a student inside Moodle. (that's NOT okay!)
For example, no matter what Moodle user account I use to log into my Moodle site, I always end up with this Wordpress screen (which shows my Wordpress admin avatar and account settings)!
What could I be doing wrong?
Frankie Kam
P.S., the instruction at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/learningapps/index.php?title=LTI4Wordpress which says
"1. Download Moodle http://wordpress.org/download/" should be read as "1. Download Wordpress..." instead of "Download Moodle..."
A quick thought, it could be a cookie problem, try closing the browser and starting a fresh session.
HI All
I FINALLY got the Moodle-Wordpress integration to work. Yippee!!!
Why I think it didn't work earlier:
(1) Previously I used a CPanel to setup my Wordpress site. This time I setup my WordPress site manually. This involved manually downloading the WordPress wordpress-3.5.2.tar.gz file; ftp'ing it to my webserver; using the CPanel's MySQL Database Wizard to create the MySQL database, MySQL username and password.
(2) I created a folder named blogs.dir inside the wp-content folder
(3) Somewhere at the end of the process, it still wasn't showing me a single sign on. So, I cleared all caches via "Site Administration | Development | Purge all caches". Bingo! That did the trick.
It took me 2 days to to get this right. A titanic battle indeed. Finally!!! At least I get to feast my eyes on the screenshot below...
...and the screenshot below...
If you notice (squint if you have to), in the upper right corner of both screenshots, the Moodle username and the Wordpress account names are the SAME! This is proof that Single Sign On (SSO) and login between my Moodle coursepage and my locally installed Wordpress is working.
The username "frankie" is a Course Manager with full posting rights (edit, delete, add, etc.) whereas the username "me" is a Student account with limited posting rights (add, view). I am tempted to blog about this with full screenshots, step-by-step instructions and a video walkthrough, but that'll take like a minimum of 3 hours. That will have to wait.
Regards
Frankie Kam
Links I used in this 'battle':
http://webmaster.dearbornschools.org/files/2012/10/Moodle-and-Wordpress-LTI-Tutorial.pdf
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
http://wpcandy.com/teaches/how-to-enable-multisite/#.UeQPG-dkNqc
http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-wordpress-multisite-a-network-of-websites-at-your-fingertips/
Thre're issues with link http://webmaster.dearbornschools.org/files/2012/10/Moodle-and-Wordpress-LTI-Tutorial.pdf
Can you share it at another address?
This should work. We recently rebuilt our wordpress server and had all kinds of issues. Scroll down the page.
That's ok, tx a lot
Did anyone get it working with moodle 2.6?
We just upgraded and it appears to still work. It only relies on LTI to connect. Once it connects and does the handshake, Wordpress takes over.
will you please tell all steps in detail ..i don't know anything much more about moodle and wordpress ..so plz help me
Thanks in advance .
Hello Alisha,
If you have a specific issue I'd be happy to help. The tutorials were written a few years ago so some things have changed but not drastically.
How do you get it to pass the classroom name to wordpress? My setup uses the consumer key and moodle course id as the name to the blog.
ie: sd58blogs-610-138
Thanks
I am not sure Mo. My setup does the same. Sending the classroom name might be problematic as you might have 2 or more blogs from a single course as well as creating long urls based off moodle course names. It also allows you to keep track of blogs by consumer key if you end up running multiple connections to your wordpress site.
We use a plugin to automatically list the names of all the blogs on a wordpress page. This does have a more "friendly" name. It is just the URL that is not friendly.
For our use case we really only want them using the blog via Moodle.
Hi, Chris. I was wondering if the plugin could be used to allow access via Moodle to existing private Wordpress pages, so that Wordpress could function as something of an object repository.
I followed your directions, and believe I have everything configured correctly, and the Moodle user is transferred successfully to Wordpress, but I always get a "Page Not Found" in Wordpress rather than the page I point to, whether the page is set to public or private. I was wondering if I may have missed something in the settings, or whether what I'm trying to do is even possible.
Thanks for any help and insight you can provide!
If you do not have success with this, there is an alternative LTI connector for WordPress available from http://www.spvsoftwareproducts.com/php/wordpress-lti/ which perhaps might get you to where you want to be.
I would explore using the SHare Key feature of this plugin: http://www.spvsoftwareproducts.com/php/wordpress-lti/
Since writing my tutorial we have switched to this plugin. http://www.spvsoftwareproducts.com/php/wordpress-lti/
