Dear colleagues and Moodle users,
It has been eighteen months since we left WebCT, and it’s time to let go:
About a quarter of sites on LearnOnline (Moodle) are currently old sites we migrated from WebCT.
We would like to remove all these sites from the system and place them on offline storage. This means, that they will disappear from your myMoodle page. We anticipate that it is unlikely that anyone will need their ‘from WebCT’ sites restored, after all it has been more than six months since anyone has asked us for any of the old WebCT migrated sites. However, should you need to access them again, you would only have to contact TLC and we would restore them from disk.
You won’t have to do anything to help us with this archival process. On the 4th or 5th of June, you should find that any ‘from WebCT’ sites on your myMoodle have disappeared, which may clean things up for you a bit.
If, in the next week or two, you notice that you tend to access ‘From WebCT’ sites regularly, please let us know which sites they are and we’ll assist you make your own copy.
Good luck with the marking!
Cheers,
Minh-Tam
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Moodle integration with Live at Edu
This is a slightly delayed note about the integration of our instance of Moodle with Live@Edu.
In the second half of 2009 the Faculty of Education had highlighted the need for a certain group of their alumni to get continued access to specific areas of LearnOnline (Moodle). To date, this had not been possible as students' accounts are turned off after they graduated. However, the University had gone live with Live@Edu in January, which gave students accounts 'for life' with the Microsoft Live services.
We were lucky with the timing, in that Microsoft Education labs released their "Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle" just a few days later, on Tuesday the 21st of July (the day after a different area of Microsoft released some drivers for Linux under the GPL).
Ashley Holman from Netspot had a look at it for us and after a short time had installed it for us on the development instance of Moodle. Microsoft kindly acknowledged Ashley's bug fixes in their next update, and in early January we implemented the integration in our production environment. This means, that as of mid-January, people who once used to be students here can log in to or Moodle.
There are two limitations to this, though: As we only started using Live@Edu at the beginning of 2009, only people who were students in 2009 (or later) have been provided with accounts, so unfortunately this solution does not allow graduates from earlier ears to log in.
The second limitation is that there won't be anything to see on Moodle, for these ex-students. As they are not enrolled, they don't get access to courses, and almost all old courses are closed off after the end of teaching. So there are only a few ex-students who currently use our Moodle this way.
We have however received a number of requests from lecturers to create courses in Moodle for entire degree cohorts. As such, Ashley is working on extending our Moodle-Callista integration to allow us to enrol students based on their degree program. In combination with the Live@Edu integration, this could be used to develop strong links between alumni and current students, and areas such as Secondary Education are leading the way.
In the second half of 2009 the Faculty of Education had highlighted the need for a certain group of their alumni to get continued access to specific areas of LearnOnline (Moodle). To date, this had not been possible as students' accounts are turned off after they graduated. However, the University had gone live with Live@Edu in January, which gave students accounts 'for life' with the Microsoft Live services.
We were lucky with the timing, in that Microsoft Education labs released their "Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle" just a few days later, on Tuesday the 21st of July (the day after a different area of Microsoft released some drivers for Linux under the GPL).
Ashley Holman from Netspot had a look at it for us and after a short time had installed it for us on the development instance of Moodle. Microsoft kindly acknowledged Ashley's bug fixes in their next update, and in early January we implemented the integration in our production environment. This means, that as of mid-January, people who once used to be students here can log in to or Moodle.
There are two limitations to this, though: As we only started using Live@Edu at the beginning of 2009, only people who were students in 2009 (or later) have been provided with accounts, so unfortunately this solution does not allow graduates from earlier ears to log in.
The second limitation is that there won't be anything to see on Moodle, for these ex-students. As they are not enrolled, they don't get access to courses, and almost all old courses are closed off after the end of teaching. So there are only a few ex-students who currently use our Moodle this way.
We have however received a number of requests from lecturers to create courses in Moodle for entire degree cohorts. As such, Ashley is working on extending our Moodle-Callista integration to allow us to enrol students based on their degree program. In combination with the Live@Edu integration, this could be used to develop strong links between alumni and current students, and areas such as Secondary Education are leading the way.
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