Moodle User Profile Pictures sychronised from iSAMS MIS

[jonwitts]

For those of you running Moodle and iSAMS; you can have a read over here: Moodle User Pictures from iSAMS | Jon Witts' Blog about how I automatically set up a sync of student photos out of the MIS straight into Moodle.

 

It could well be modified for other MIS platforms too; without too much difficulty!

 

Jon

[jamesfed]

Only recently been working on another of my magical SSIS packages to get the photos out of SIMS and into Moodle - interesting to see how others go about the same thing

[jonwitts]

I'd be interested to see how you achieve it with SIMS @jamesfed - iSAMS is kind to me in that the pictures are stored on the hard drive as jpg files... Doesn't SIMS blob the files into the SQL Database?

 

Jon

[jamesfed]

Its possible to export the photos right out of the SIMS DB and put them into JPGs with the right query

 

 

Can also intercept the filename and do a lookup to match up the photo ID with the person ID in SIMS (which we use as the unique field between SIMS/AD/Moodle/everything else that needs it).

[jonwitts]

@jamesfed - very nice!