Moodle 2.0 & sharepoint 2010

[apearce]

Hi Alex

Sounds great (if it is not tooooo expensive!) and just-about in time for the new academic year. We have Moodle 2.1.1 and 2.2 alpha development servers, if you want anything piloted. From the Moodle forums, there seems to be considerable interest in Moodle 2.x-SharePoint integration.

After a little tinkering, we already have the file-picker working rather well (for both linking and copying files) with Alfresco. Will also see how far we can get with the file-picker-WebDAV-SharePoint interface. As we have SharePoint as our 'in house' repository, we would prefer to use that rather than another system.

Cheers

We do have a price in mind which we hope is not too expensive - always happy to hear if its too much come release day and how much you would be prepared to pay.

[Butters]

Based on the tool, as long as you can install your own modules in Moodle 2.0 you will be able to use this with your internet SharePoint.

Sounds good. I used to work for the hosting company of our Moodle so should be able to persuade them. Is this using some form of WebDAV then?

[apearce]

Sounds good. I used to work for the hosting company of our Moodle so should be able to persuade them. Is this using some form of WebDAV then?

No, it use some of the development features within SharePoint that allows you to export information from SharePoint. dont want to give the trade secrets away ;-)

[Butters]

No, it use some of the development features within SharePoint that allows you to export information from SharePoint. dont want to give the trade secrets away ;-)

Are there any pre-requisites such as SP2010 etc? May have to PM you about this.

[apearce]

Are there any pre-requisites such as SP2010 etc? May have to PM you about this.

PM or email welcome apearce at bfcnetworks dot com

No pre-requirements other than a dedicated SharePoint username for it to run on.
Alex

[geoffr]

Next month I'll be releasing the SharePoint File Picker for Moodle 2.0 which I hope you will find useful.

Hi Alex,

Any news on this?

[apearce]

in testing at the moment and just found a bug

[geoffr]

Alex

Thanks for the update.

By all means PM me at geoff dot rowland at yeovil dot ac dot uk as soon as a release candidate, or whatever, is available.

May even be able to convince 'those who hold the purse-strings' to pay something for it ;-)

Cheers

Geoff

[Butters]

Hi Alex,

Any update on this? I'm designing my farms for our Sharepoint 2010 infrastructure and building in my SSO integration with other systems and wanted to check on this for Moodle file resource allocation.

Really interested and hope it's all going ahead!

[jimyupangco]

Based on the tool, as long as you can install your own modules in Moodle 2.0 you will be able to use this with your internet SharePoint.

Hi Pearce,

Checked out BFC to look into the filepicker you specified....was unable to find it. Let me know how to access it, or contact me so we can chat.

Cheers,
J

[Ishan]

in testing at the moment and just found a bug

Hi Alex,

I'm very interested in your work.
We're searching for a deep SP2010/Moodle 2.x integration, with the possibility to search, edit download and upload documents in the Moodle filepicker to and form SP2010.

Hope you'll have it soon

Ishan

[geoffr]

Hi again Alex

At the risk of being a pest, is there any more news on this?

Otherwise, I may be 'driven' from SharePoint 'into the arms of' Alfresco, KnowledgeTree or ownCloud as a Moodle 2 repository :-(

The generic Moodle 2 WebDAV repository interface/file-picker works (with a little tweaking) with any of these, as does the dedicated repository interface/file-picker for Alfresco. They all also have AD/LDAP authenticationcation. So, can sit, reasonably comfortably, in a Microsoft environment.

I do appreciate that development may be somewhat challenging. The Moodle 2 file/repository system is somewhat idiosyncratic (and has caused some angst in the Moodle community) and is likely to be refactored for Moodle 2.3. Suspect managing fle/folder access rights between SharePoint and Moodle 2 may be a particular issue.

Appreciative of your efforts.

Geoff