Over the past few weeks Microsoft have released the code to implement Moodle and Moodle 2 on Windows Azure saving you the cost of hardware, redundancy and data protection. Using Windows Azure to host the website and SQL Azure for the database you now have another reason to move to the cloud and keep saving … Continue reading Host Moodle 2 in Windows Azure
Kerberos was developed by MIT in the 80s to help with network security in a large network and has been used since Windows Server 2000 to increase security for users logging onto their domain computer. By using this ticketing solution your authentication is securer than basic or NTLM keeping your Moodle users securer from network … Continue reading Chapter 6: Configuring Moodle 2.0 with Kerberos Authentication
Configuring Moodle with Active Directory can be very simple but it is important that it is also done to best practice with tight security. During chapter 4 we discuss how to connect Moodle to Active Directory with a dedicated user that you have created and given delegated rights to. This user only has permission to … Continue reading Chapter 4 & 5: Configuring Moodle 2.0 with Active Directory and LDAP Attributes
A month or two ago I thought about all the content there is currently available on the internet regarding Moodle 2.0 and Microsoft technologies. There this isn’t very much so I’ve spent the last month or two writing and writing and writing putting together an ebook together looking at 7 different areas. The book is … Continue reading eBook:Moodle 2.0 with Microsoft Technologies
Over the past year I have write a few how to whitepapers on implementing the open source product Moodle onto Microsoft Technologies. In recent months Moodle 2 has been released and a new whitepapers is now available on how to install the product on: Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 … Continue reading Install Moodle 2 on Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS
I got a tweet from @moodlenews asking why would I want the documents I have in Moodle stored in a SharePoint document library. Well it’s a very good question so I thought the fourth and final post on Integrating SharePoint and Moodle would be why we want to do this. Edit the File Once you … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: But Why….?
This blog post is part 1 of a series of 3 on how to integrate SharePoint and Moodle better. Part 1: How to part 1 Part 2: How to part 2 Part 3: Recommended Changes (this post) Checks You if now navigate to the Document Library we created earlier in Internet Explorer you will … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 3
This blog post is part 1 of a series of 3 on how to integrate SharePoint and Moodle better. Part 1: How to part 1 Part 2: How to part 2 (this post) Part 3: Recommended Changes Enable Feature For the Moodle OS to open a WebDAV enabled folder, the Desktop Experience Feature must be … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 2
Over the years the last year I have had many conversation on how to make SharePoint and Moodle better together and in recent posts I have how to install Moodle on a 32bit and how to install Moodle on 64bit operating systems. In the current version of Moodle any documents, assignments or images are stored … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Storing Moodle Docs in SharePoint: Part 1
As a school we have decided to evaluate Moodle for a VLE for our school. The main reasons we have done this is because of the course builder with built in quizs and SCORM builders. I have to say they are very well built. They are not page viewers like some companies make for their … Continue reading Integrating SharePoint and Moodle: Moodle Webparts for SharePoint 2007