Facility To Moodle 2

Blocks ::: block_facility_to_moodle

Maintained by

Marc Coyles,

Tim Bateson

Supports Moodle 2.3 thru to 2.6. Fork of Guy Thomas' original Facility-to-Moodle block for 1.7-1.9

Latest release: 11 years

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Current versions available: 2

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This tool provides a level of integration with Serco's proprietary MIS Facility CMIS / ePortal. It is a fork of the original Facility-2-Moodle plugin by Guy Thomas / Citricity, adding Moodle 2.1-2.6 support and moving configuration into the GUI.

Two versions are available. 1x for Moodle 2.1 & 2.2, and 1x for Moodle 2.3 > 2.5 - use the version dropdown across the top.

Documentation is Here

LDAPCapture is Here (and works fine on 2.5, despite not saying so)

The current features are:

1) Bulk creation of student accounts with LDAP integration as default.
2) Transfer of teaching groups into courses.
3) Bulk creation of parent accounts linked to students so that parents can login and see what their children have been up to (requires MIS 2 Block)
4) Cron jobs for transferring student / parent accounts (+ purging leaver accounts) and synchronising groups

Integrates with Parental Portal Block to provide:

1) Parents live view of Facility CMIS data - attendance, exam data, etc. (This has been moved to a new project, alpha versions available on request)

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Marc Coyles (Lead maintainer)

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Comments

Will Pandle
Tue, 19 June 2012, 5:43 PM
is it possible to use this if you dont have control over Active Directory you can just read not do any changes ?
Marc Coyles
Tue, 3 July 2012, 3:51 PM
Yep... as long as you have an AD account which is able to read all the BDNs that your users reside in.
Aparup Banerjee
Mon, 20 Aug 2012, 11:35 AM
Hi,
I've noted that this plugin uses yui2 libraries.
Do note that moodle version 2.4 (in development) has moved from using yui2 to yui2in3 as described by MDL-34741.
Here is a link to using yui2in3 : http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/yui/yui-yui2.html
Paul Smee
Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 11:38 PM
Having a bit of a problem with my install on 2.3, get error-
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Invalid table name {block_facility_to_moodle_group_linker}: name is too long. Limit is 28 chars.

Having a 'google' around but not much info out there on the error any help??
Paul Smee
Fri, 5 Oct 2012, 11:53 PM
If you having same issue, (I think it's a 2.3 thing) -here is a workaround:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=116512#p908383
Marc Coyles
Sat, 6 Oct 2012, 2:03 AM
2.3 has a restriction in the length of table and field names, requiring a rewrite of all blocks... 2.2 won't work unless you manually change table name and update code to reflect same changes, keeping all table and files names below 28 characters. It's on my list of stuff-to-do...
Marc Coyles
Sat, 6 Oct 2012, 2:05 AM
Sorry, above should say "... 2.2 /version of block/ won't work..."
Paul Smee
Thu, 11 Oct 2012, 9:16 PM
Not to totally hi-jack this comment area but I'm having wee bit of a problem with this block, any help appreciated-https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=213590
Paul Smee
Tue, 23 Oct 2012, 8:40 PM
Sorry to still be chatting about this working with 2.3 but I'm so close to goal.... When I 'sync' the student accounts it work brilliantly with the ID in thedescription feild but I can't use that as the config. I'm trying bodge the "lib_students_match.php" to use the sAMacountLogin as the identifier...... but alas my php/sql is too limited to feckle it, any help??
Oliver Cooper
Tue, 18 Dec 2012, 4:41 AM
bit stuck making this work :/ any help would be greatly appreciated https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218230
Oliver Cooper
Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 2:06 AM
Any idea of when 2.4 compatibility is going to happen? YUI2 needs changing to 2in3. I'd do it myself but not experienced enough... itching to go 2.4 and this is the one thing holding us back
Marc Coyles
Wed, 8 May 2013, 10:57 PM
Bear with - will hopefully upload a 2.4.3 compatible version this week, wrapped with YUI2in3
Marc Coyles
Thu, 9 May 2013, 5:09 PM
Release 2.4 (Build:2013050908) for Moodle 2.3 & 2.4 now added... select Moodle 2.4 from version dropdown to access it.
Oliver Cooper
Mon, 15 July 2013, 8:23 PM
Having a bit of an issue at the moment.. some staff users are unable to add groups. Just gives them a "you do not have access to this area" error. Have isolated a user that works and a user that doesn't work and can't find any difference between the two accounts!
Marc Coyles
Mon, 15 July 2013, 9:37 PM
Have replied by PM...