Teaching with Moodle

I don't have an actual answer - but a thought, because i had a very similar query only this morning that I'll be looking at later in the summer.

Can 2 moodle sites be set up in a similar fashion to a Mahoodle link using one as the master institution and the other to have a single sign on based on having already signed into the first (MNet - rather than LTI, as its sharing authentication rather than activities/resources).

My example is needing to give access to an archive site from the live site, preferably without paying for more licences for our external SSO solution . We already have Mahara set up like this, so plan on looking into whether Moodle can be set up the same way.

In my instance I am quite happy with that Primary/Secondary kind of set up, rather than 2 equal peers - I'm not sure if that would apply to you Dave?

Richard

For testing plugins I maintain, I have to do that very thing for Moodle 2.7 through 3.5. The relatively easy manual way to do it is to keep a CSV file of the users information. If I want to change passwords or any other item, I make the change in the CSV, then on each site run Site administration > Users > Accounts > Upload users.  Just carefully pick through the options for the upload so that whatever changes you made in the CSV file get applied.

Mnet can be set up to link users on two Moodle sites. I believe that moodle.org and moode.org/plugins is (or was) an example of this (same user  login works on both systems).  One limitation of this is that accounts must be created on one site if they are to be transferable.

If have a synchronized password system, you could use and LDAP server another external authentication mechanism. However, if you have existing users that may not be feasible.