[Moodle] Moodle and Maze

Thu Nov 12 09:28:44 EST 2009

We currently use LDAP to create accounts. The account is auto generated when a student logs in for the first time. LDAP is then used to check passwords. In future we intend to use IMS Enterprise XML to create users from an Identity Management System, only because this was used to create Student and Course information for Blackboard, which is now being phased out. The use of IMS allows for creation of users, courses, and membership, including groups. Mind you, there are better ways of doing this, but we already have the IMS feed in place.

Cheers,

Adam Barbary
LMS Support 
University of Ballarat

On 12/11/2009, at 8:45 AM, Laurie Savage wrote:

> This seems an overly complex solution to a simple problem. We've been
> running Moodle for about 4 years now. I initially imported all the students
> by way of a csv file that I cooked in a spreadsheet. All enrolments since
> then have been done by the students themselves. I lock down the email
> verification system so it will only work with legitimate college email
> accounts. When a student creates a new account a confirmation email is sent
> to them, so the account must exist for them to verify their enrolment. The
> only checking I need to do is the occasional scan of the users' file to see
> if they have kept to our naming policy. It's stress free.
> 
> Laurie Savage
> PVGC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Paul Maxted
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 9:26 PM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Moodle] Moodle and Maze
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to reply.
> 
> We are still looking at all our options but I think we are settling on
> Maze (MSSQL) exporting a csv file of student name, ID, course1, course2
> etc (same with teachers) once per day. Cron will run a proprietary php
> script to pick up the csv file and import it into Moodle's MSSQL dB
> updating any differences i.e. students who have changed courses. At least
> that is my understanding...I might be quite wrong :)
> 
> I did float the idea of self enrollment that Julian proposes in one of his
> YouTube videos but our ICT committee was concerned that students will get
> the course keys from other students and start to muck things up.
> 
> I also floated the idea of putting more student info in the LDAP server to
> not only authenticate the user but also get the personal info.
> Hmmmm....silence.
> 
> So I am back to internal authentication for the time being and trying to
> sync Moodle and Maze via csv files.
> 
> regards
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I think we are
>> We do not use Maze so I can't help with that, but I think the main
>> question will be what do you want as your final result?  Does maze give
>> you your class enrolments or is this just to identify users?
>> 
>> If this is for authentication then I believe the best way to go it link to
>> Active Directory.  When a user logs in to Moodle for the first time Moodle
>> sucks the information from Active Directory to create the account and
>> populates all information required, username, first and last name and
>> email address etc.  When this is set up correctly you will never have to
>> create a new account again.  All I do is log in about once a year a do a
>> search for people who have not logged on for more than 180 days and delete
>> their account.  This is just to clean up old students as when students are
>> removed from Active Directory it automatically prevents them accessing the
>> Moodle site.
>> 
>> For class access we use the enrolment key system.  This is especially good
>> at this time of the year.  Courses for junior years might not start until
>> Jan but the VCE subjects are already looking at giving out work for the
>> Christmas period so they can enrol their students now.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> Stephen Bloomer
>> sbloomer at stpeters.vic.edu.au
>> Network Manager
>> St. Peter's College
>> Cranbourne-Frankston Road
>> Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3977
>> Phone  +61 3 5996 6733
>> Fax      +61 3 5996 8277
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> 
>> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Paul Maxted
>> Sent: Wed 11/11/2009 8:51 PM
>> To: moodle at edulists.com.au
>> Subject: [Moodle] Moodle and Maze
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> About 4 months ago we installed Moodle 1.9.5 on a server in our own server
>> room at school. We connect to it via SSL and it is accessible for teachers
>> and students from within the school intranet and from home. We are now
>> committed to rolling out Moodle to the whole school community next year.
>> 
>> At the moment I have been exporting students from our Maze v8 database via
>> a pdf, converting that to a csv file and importing that into Moodle. This
>> has been successful but clearly not a long term solution for 1200+
>> students.
>> 
>> Have you or do you know of anyone who has been able to synchronize Maze
>> with Moodle?
>> 
>> thanks
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> ICT Coordinator
>> De La Salle College
>> (03) 9508 2391
>> 
>> 
>> 
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