Drupal 6 and Moodle

Posted by timmillwood on July 31, 2008 at 2:54pm

I am developing many new community sites in Drupal 6 and need to integrate them into Moodle for both user and data sharing.

Can anyone help?

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More details. . .

Posted by kyle_mathews on July 31, 2008 at 7:53pm

Did you have a specific question you wanted answered? Do you want to hire some one? What you've written is really vague.

Kyle Mathews

using drupal to convert and redesign website

Posted by mitchellecohen on July 31, 2008 at 11:17pm

Kyle,
First, I am intersted but no expert in web design and I have just started to use Drupal.
Given that, I am the webmaster of my son's school website, www.ps150.net.

I am redesigning it and thinking that drupal would be a good platform. I noticed there is a drupaled module, but it is unclear what it does or how full featured it is. So I was looking for some more information on drupal ed.

Then I would like to hire someone (I do this on a volunteer basis and the school does not have a lot of money, but I can ask for some) to help me both learn drupal and design the site. I am interested in how moving from a pretty static site to a site with discussion groups and blogs and increase communication among parents and between the school administration and parents -- always and area of poor communication.

That about it. I wish I could be more technical, but I am in the beginning of this process.

Another project where I definitely want to hire someone who knows civicrm is how to get that working on a website I am converting to drupal for my lake association.

Mitchell

In my experience working

Posted by jpj171 on August 1, 2008 at 3:51am

In my experience working with School Districts in Kansas, at least, I find that if the teachers are not digitally native, there's a huge training and comfort issue that you're taking on that has little or nothing to do with Drupal -- it's independent of any package you use. If the teachers are not ready for your site, the community will lay fallow.

That said, I don't think that's a reason not to go ahead and move forward with Drupal, by any means. What I love about Drupal is that it makes it easy for you or a couple of people to maintain the content while it remains a very web 1.0 site, and then, over time, as users bloom and find they're ready to take on some of the functionality, it's already there, in place, just waiting for them to start using it.

Looking at the existing site you've linked (briefly), I'm not seeing a lot of interactive course work being delivered on the current site. As much as you might like the idea of delivering Moodle with Drupal, I don't think you need the things Moodle brings -- course management, testing and assessment tools, etc. Someday, maybe, but for now I think Drupal on it's own is probably a big enough step in the right direction.

For what it's worth, Drupaled isn't really a module at all -- it's what amounts to an install package of sorts - a collection of modules and configuration options pre-set to fit an educational setting. I think that's why you might be finding that the description isn't quite as clear as you're expecting -- a module can have a very specific purpose and scratch a very specific itch. But Drupaled is a sort of head start, a set of ideas and suggestions that move in a specific direction . . . and that's necessarily harder to describe. But I learned a lot from setting up a Drupaled site and checking out the way it was set up -- it's a training class of it's own just pulling it apart to see how the modules work, and work together.

Ditto the need for specificity

Posted by bonobo on July 31, 2008 at 8:41pm

Where are you drawing the line between the applications?

What will users do in Moodle?

What will users do in Drupal?

What data, if any, will need to be passed between the applications?

If we start here, we can then work on adding additional detail --

Thanks,

Bill

FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers

FunnyMonkey

The drupal sites will be

Posted by timmillwood on July 31, 2008 at 8:54pm

The drupal sites will be virtual communities for teachers, students, parent examiners. These are all setup using multi-site structures, organic groups and many other modules.

The Moodle site will be used to teach the students and train the teachers and examiners. The two will need to link both users and data.

I consider myself to be good drupal developer but never used moodle.

There are some Drupal / Moodle integration efforts

Posted by Chris Johnson on August 19, 2008 at 11:48pm

Take a look at these 3 Drupal projects:

http://drupal.org/project/moodle

http://drupal.org/project/moodlesso

http://drupal.org/project/moodle_courselist

I'm the module owner for the Moodle Module, and will be adding functionality to meet some requirements for my employer's client. These changes will targeted at Drupal 6 and Moodle 1.9.

Thanks

Posted by timmillwood on August 20, 2008 at 8:40am

I will definitely use these when they are ported to 6. I may use course list now.

Currently my moodle and drupal sites are on different servers so i'm not sure if this would cause me any problems.

moodle support

Posted by gmarcotte on February 20, 2012 at 10:06am

moodle 1.9 is near the end of life, version 2.2 now so you plan to support the latest moodle, drupal 7?

Drupal-Moodle integration

Posted by tewnet on November 25, 2008 at 8:09pm

I'm interested in the current status of Moodle integration with Drupal 6. I'm a Drupal 6 newbie, and not a programmer, but I'm using Drupal it to rebuild my company's website. I develop and deliver online education courses to corporations. I'm adding ecommerce to the site. (Don't know yet whether I'll use Drupal eCommerce or Ubercart.) I'd like for customers to be able to purchase courses through my Drupal site and then access the courses online through Moodle as an LMS, without my intervention, at least for standard transactions (i.e., off-the-shelf course bundles and standard retail pricing). I currently load my courses onto third-party, proprietary, SCORM-compliant LMS's for delivery. Is anyone working on this? Can it be done?

Also, is anyone aware of an open-source LMS besides Moodle that might be a better candidate for Drupal integration?

Thanks.

Moodle Enrolment plugins

Posted by frank ralf on November 26, 2008 at 12:51pm

Hello,

I am quite new to Drupal and even newer to Moodle, but if you are only looking for a way to charge people for your courses it might be sufficient to use one of Moodle's Enrolment plugins for paid access, i.e. Authorize.net Payment Gateway or Paypal (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Enrolment_plugins).

Regarding your general question, I think Moodle is a very powerful LMS and really worth exploring.

hth
Frank

Frank

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It can be done, but you will need a developer

Posted by ezraw on November 26, 2008 at 9:33pm

It can definately be done. We have integrated a third-party shopping cart (Zen Cart) with Moodle by synchronizing the courses as "products." Users and sessions are also synchronized/shared as well. We use the same domain and database for both applications.

I would image you could do the same thing with Ubercart or eCommerce. In our experience it required modifying a module in Zen Cart to write back to the Moodle tables to ensure users that completed a purchase had access. You could probably do the same using a Drupal cart.

There is built-in e-commerce integration with Moodle, but it does not provide a shopping cart, which we found was important for our client.

We are now working on a similar project for several clients where Drupal handles users, roles, content, etc. and all Moodle does is administer the course (SCORM or an external link), quizzes and certificates. We create a CCK node in Drupal whenever a course is created in Moodle and so all the courses exist in Drupal as content items. This includes a URL for the user to click through to take the course, as well as other data that can be used to filter views, such as topic, date, etc. We then use views to help users find and register for courses appropriate for them.

Again, the sites share a domain and database, so we are able to synchronize users and share sessions. We are hoping to keep it tightly enough integrated that users won't know there are two applications involved. Users will always be directed back to Drupal if they need to update their profile, etc.

Because users will want to keep track of what courses they completed, and that will need to be shown in Drupal, we are thinking of creating a database view of the users' Moodle data and then exposing that data to the views module. Users will have a block showing their enrolled courses and their status in each course. Admins can use that to view reports as well. We have not completed that step yet.

It's actually gone pretty well so far, but we are only about a third/half of the way through. It definately helped that we had experience with both applications before we started the integration.

Some of the work we are doing we hope to share with both communities, but the integration is pretty specific for the client. We'll have a better idea of what can be shared in the next few months.

DLC Solutions

DLC Solutions
EthosCE

drupal moodle integration

Posted by gmarcotte on February 20, 2012 at 10:18am

I have created a SSO using modules in drupal and moodle for moodle 2.0.4 (2.2.x does not work yet) and drual 6. the two have to be on the same domain (same server) the moodle admin has to have read/write access to the drupal database.

I am looking for SSO that works drupal 7 and the latest moodle release, I think simplesaml will work but need figure out how to set up the simplesamplephp server to work with drupal (with simplesaml I can let the users login with there face book or google accounts)

current trying to ubercart on the drupal side to let users pay for classes and then have those users enrolled into the moodle classes. The shopping cart moduels in drupal are much better then moodle. I can pull course data from moodle directly from the moodle database. Also there is some web services module for moodle that will do it too.

I intend to post details when I figure these things out.

Current work on Drupal Moodle modules

Posted by frank ralf on February 20, 2012 at 11:08am

There's a bit of work in progress going on at "Drupal 7 port of Moodle module?" (Moodle Integration) "Drupal 7 version (for Moodle 1.9)" (Moodle Course List). Feel free to beg, borrow or steal - or contribute ;-)

Frank

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Course module integration

Posted by scottrigby on April 3, 2012 at 8:36pm

As ezraw said (3 and a half years ago now!) we've worked a lot with integrating Moodle, for our primary project EthosCE http://www.ethosce.com

At this point, that works by adding Moodle objects to Drupal's Course module:
http://drupal.org/project/course

We're pushing to get a D6 stable release and D7 beta of Course module available soon (ideally in the next two months). The issue queue there is a good place to track progress, and discuss combining efforts for various learning objects :)

What is the best platform for teaching? Drupal or Moodle?

Posted by siegeflores on September 6, 2010 at 8:29pm

Hi guys

Can Drupal be customised to function like Moodle? My organisation is delivering e-learning packages, future courses, web conferencing, etc. We have a Drupal web site then we're hoping to have a Moodle-LMS so we can have a learning environment for clients.

What is your experience with Drupal-Moodle integration?
Would it be better to have a Drupal platform for long-term than Moodle?

Thanks for your help!

yes but...

Posted by aosiname on November 10, 2011 at 2:39pm

is there really a point since moodle has done it already?

I would love moodle to have been done in Drupal in the first place but it wasnt... :(

Experience with Drupal-Moodle integration

Posted by amitkarpe on September 16, 2011 at 11:04am

To answer your question, yes I have integrated Drupal and Moodle by using Drupal SSO. Overall experience is good. You can really develop a smooth system which work like one web application with same GUI (needs a lot of theming). Even I know many companies/ organizations are using such integration. For learning management system and virtual learning environment Moodle have more advance features than Drupal. But technically by using Drupal can develop LMS (learning management system) and VLM (virtual learning environment) but which need dedicate team and resources.

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Drupal moodle integration

Posted by rahulnayak on November 11, 2011 at 4:58am

One example is kiwimentor.net

using sso and a course module for drupal 6.
courses are also visible in drupal and users roles of moodle added into drupal.

http://learningdecoded.com/webtutor