Quick Moodle question

[kennysarmy]

Can an externally hosted Moodle authenticate against an internally (school servers) hosted active directory (LDAP) or access database?

thanks.

[danIT]

There isnt any reason why that shouldnt be possible, essentially you just need to point Moodle to your internal database and make your database (LDAP or Otherwise) externally accessible.

[FN-GM]

You will probably have to point some ports directly to your DC, i would not recommend this. The other option could be to to use a VPN or host internally.

[budgester]

It's possible but there are all sorts of security issues, so be very carefull how you do this, you don't want any Alice ob Bob with access to your LDAP/AD server.

Another issue you to be aware of is the traffic implications, slow internet day, could mean a really slow moodle authentication.

A no internet day will definately mean no vle.

And of course if you teachers start uploading large powerpoints (i've seen them up to 100mb) and you have 30 kids all downloading that, lets just say a local install with a LAN could be a bit quicker than a 20mb internet connection.

[nadeem]

Can an externally hosted Moodle authenticate against an internally (school servers) hosted active directory (LDAP) or access database?

thanks.

Yes, we do do that (ULCC hosted moodle) authenicates against our AD