ItsLearning VLE and Office 365

[Mako]

Hello all,

 

Currently moving away from our current VLE. ItsLearning talked a good talk and gave a good demo. I was told it would integrate with our existing Office 365. How exciting. Received an e-mail from the tech support who will be looking to set it up. I've been told the following:

 

• O365 tenancy will need to be changed to a Federated tenancy.
  
• ItsLearning will then take control of account creation with emails based on the itslearning username (!!)
  
• Group creation is done via hierarchy creation and membership.
  
• Access to O365 then is done via ItsLearning SSO from within the learning platform.
  
• Default domain needs to be changed to the built in onMicrosoft domain.
  
• Existing accounts need to be reconciled via an authorisation link in their mailbox.
  

 

We only moved to O365 last summer. Currently O365 is correctly set up via Azure ADConnect, e-mail addresses are the same as their AD Username with pass-through SSO etc etc. Sounds like I'm going to completely lose this capability and a lot of my O365 management capabilities?

Does not sound like what I was told would happen. By my understanding of the definition of "integrate", that doesn't mean "take-over". I don't want all my student and staff e-mails to have to change again. Local AD sync is the best thing that ever happened to us.

 

Anyone currently use ItsLearning? Thoughts and advice would be appreciated!

[Mako]

Actually, looking at the activity of this forum, VLE's are a thing of the past.

 

Would it be better to explore full use of O365 / Sharepoint using the freebies like Salamander to set up class groups etc?

 

The Cloud forum is way more active and I seem to have O365 set up in the way which fits the consensus of Edugeek (on-prem AD sync with SSO). I've not stumbled upon a thread yet where someone details that their O365 accounts are generated by their VLE...