Moodle/Mahara group synchronisation

[Richard Hand]

Synchronise group information between Moodle and Mahara.

[Nigel-catalyst (nigel-catalyst)]

This needs a _lot_ more detail ;)

Is this talking about syncing moodle groups to mahara groups, or moodle courses to mahara groups? How do you see the syncing working on a functional level?

[Dan Poltawski (dan-poltawski)]

I think a more sensible thing will be syncing cohorts when they land in Moodle 2.0

[Juan Segarra Montesinos (juan-segarra)]

Hi guys :) Nobody wants to work on this? ;)

I've been syncing our Mahara groups with Moodle courses or a moodle course group with a custom external script.

Our teachers are used to Moodle and this kind of synchro let them do the transtion/learning to/of Mahara easier.

Doing this more general it's harder, of course. But these are some ideas to discuss:

* You can configure what moodle instances to work with. MNET? Web Services?
* A group tab that lets a group administrator to choose what moodle courses / groups to sync

[Juan Segarra Montesinos (juan-segarra)]

I've doing some testing on this, if someone wants to comment... he/she is wellcome ;)

* MOODLE. A new MNET Services is publised (course info) and is used to retrieve Moodle course/group information. The service in implemented in an enrolment plugin.

* MAHARA. Any group administrator has a new tab in a group: Moodle Network Sync.

* MAHARA. The new tab shows two lists: one with remote courses she's teaching remotely and other with courses the course is in sync. The group administrator can move courses/groups from this two lists.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

This is a good candidate for the webservices functionality that we are working on.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Web services make this possible.