Zilink - Moodle Module

[bluevanman63]

My school has used Zilink to automatically populate outr Moodle with data from SIMS for the past couple of years.

Unfortunately our licence has expired and the developer's website has disapperared, phone and emails are not answered.

Does anyone have any information as to whether SchoolsICT still exits?

Many thanks.

[sarchs]

Any luck in finding a number. Our license too has expired and the phone number we have in not in use

[3s-gtech]

You may be able to link your Moodle easily to AD instead, if you have a clear route for LDAP to work (e.g. if it's internally hosted). That means that you'll still get automatic account creation, but for free.

[localzuk]

I think @penfold should be able to help, as its his company I think.

[sarchs]

our accounts are created with LDAP but its the linking to classes that we use zilink for hopefully @penfold will get back to us

[3s-gtech]

Ah makes sense. You may be able to pull the data from SIMS to an AD field, then extract that as a custom field into Moodle via LDAP. Clunkier, but doable.

[bluevanman63]

Many thanks for the various replies.

Having had no success with contacting Zilink, we have resorted to creating a report in SIMS with student details and classes, exporting as a CSV and then uploading into Moodle, ensuring that the resulting data is merged. No automatic, unlike Zilink however has given us what we need.

Regards

Ian Williams

[FN-GM]

I am sorry to hear this about Zilink. We used to use them a number of years ago and I enjoyed working with them.

 

As an alternative Salamander can provide a similar product - https://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/

[penfold]

Sorry - nothing to do with me.

[Marci]

SchoolsICT = Mr Ian W Tasker, sole shareholder. You can find him actively posting & retweeting on twitter up til yesterday (9th September). One would suggest from this blog post that he's giving up on ZiLink and focussing solely on Assembly_Edu and expecting customers to migrate over - https://blog.assembly.education/zinet-assembly/

 

As part of the arrangement, ZiNET’s Connect service will continue to run for a year, giving customers plenty of time to move their integration to the Assembly Platform. There will be no loss of functionality for current ZiNET customers, who will be able to access key ZiNET features from Assembly following the skills merger, including comprehensive timetabling and behaviour integrations.

Edited September 10, 2018 by Marci

[5tu]

We had ZiLink a few years back. I always dealt with Jeremy Meades. Looks like he's now a magazine editor!! https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremymeades/?originalSubdomain=uk

[Marci]

Jeremy & Liz resigned back in 2015.

[localzuk]

Apologies @penfold, should've been @penfold_99.