We have installed the very helpful Office365 plugins to our Moodle site and are testing them now for the next academic year. Our plan is to get students to log in via O365 and to have a O365 group set up for each Moodle course. We’ll use the O365 group site as a file repository, use the group’s calendar and the automatically created email group in Outlook – all of this is fantastically helpful.
However, while testing we have come across a big problem:
the O365 groups are set up fine for each Moodle course. The problem is that
when we add a group to a Moodle course, another O365 group is created in
addition to the course’s O365 group. The documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Office365#Course_Groups
reads that O365 groups are set up for Moodle courses only, not for Moodle
groups within that course?
This is going to be a problem as we use quite a lot of groups on each course
and having a separate O365 group and group site created for each Moodle group
is going to be very hard to manage.
Is there any way of changing this to only set up an O365 group for the Moodle
course? We’re on Moodle 3.3.5+ and plugins Microsoft block
3.3.0.0, MS Office 365 integration 3.3.0.1, OpenID connect 3.3.0.0 &
Office365 3.3.0.1.
Also, could someone clear up as it isn’t very clear in the documentation: do students on the Moodle course have editing permissions to the files on the O365 group site?
Thanks very much, and great work on an excellent set of plugins.
