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mine is @penfold_99 but i mainly tweet under @schoolsict

The biggest thing to remember is the 60 business days lead time it will take to install a new leased line. We have heard from a few schools and academies about wanting to move away from the LA provided internet. You need to have filtering and fire walling in place.

The certificate will install but you need to refer to the machine internal and external as remote.externaldomain.com so you don't get a certificate warning in IE etc

The internal name of the RDweb server will break the certificate chain. The way we overcame it was Install the wildcard SSL certificate on the RDWeb Sever Get the RDWeb Server to use the certificate Create an A record for remote.externaldomain.com with the IP of the RDWeb server Edit the TMG Rule for RDWeb and when it asks for the computer name or IP to resolve enter remote.externaldomain.com This will keep the certificate chain intact.

But if you use an existing SIF agent for MIS integration the cost is sub £500. You only need to write your application to be SIF compliant and you will have integration.

The biggest issue you will need to over come is acceptance from state schools as they are normally locked into the version their county will support. This is normally a killer for any new MIS. A better way of gaining a foot hold would be by modulising the application, base it round SIF the systems interoperability framework, this will allow you to integrate with all the leading MIS providers. Then you could select the area that could be most improved with lease amount of effort. repeat this process until you have a complete MIS and they can stop using their old one and easily migrate over.

Wasn't that the price before the the HT grant got slashed?

I think its a case of the Harnessing Technology Grant has gone and as such ESCC has nothing to top slice so has a black hole in there books. They need schools to pay for it to keep the project going, but taking 3 years to get it up and running and only rolling it out to a few schools isn't a great sales pitch. There is a lot of confusion over Parental Engagement and Online Reporting, Parental Engagement was the bit most people missed and just opted for offering Online Reporting. Parental Engagement is getting parents involved in the students learning, by have communication between parent, teacher and student and informing them of student progress within a learning context. SLG is does Online Reporting not Parental Engagement, what use is it if a parent sees a '5a' when there is no context, its meaning less. Parental Engagement is still a very good idea. A colleague has just attended a NAACE training day about the new ofsted inspection framework and the VLE must be at the heart of learning ethos if a school wishes to get outstanding. There need to be more integration between your VLE and MIS. Parental Engagement should be wrapped around your VLE not your MIS, parents should get the whole picture of the students learning.

Is your moodle hosted with Link2ICT or In House?

I am all ready signed up.

I would be willing to extend my Zimbra SSO block for moodle to include the users inbox. I will have a look at the code over the next few days.

School budgets are not being cut until April the earliest. So you might have time yet. As for going it alone, have you any contacts that you could start working part time for? This would give you some income security while you build your business. I would find somebody a you trust and can work with and go into partnership as if you are successful you want to be able to share work as there might be to much for one person. Once you know you have some work, create a company or go self enployed, you might have issues with self employeed and CRB checks as you would need to get each school you work at to CRB check you. If you were a company you would be able to get your company secretary to get you one. Sort out what you charges out before you begin, raising your prices at a later data by a large amount wont get you many repeat customers. Dont over sell yourself, schools will respect a company more if they say no we cant do this than one that says yes and does it badly. oh one last thing. GOOD LUCK.

I have finally hard time to track down the files you need to edit. These file are from Centos, so slight tweaking may be required to get it working with your distribution. You will need to replace [FQDN] with your local domain name and [sERVERNAME] with your server name. In /etc/samba/samba.conf edit the global section [global] workgroup = DOMIAN realm = [FQDN] server string = [sERVERNAME] security = ADS password server = [sERVERNAME].[FQDN] passdb backend = tdbsam idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /sbin/nologin cups options = raw log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m winbind use default domain = yes winbind enum users = yes obey pam restrictions = yes usershare allow guests = no ea support =yes acl compatibility = Auto store dos attributes = yes map readonly = no map archive = no map system = no invalid users = root msdfs root = no socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 acl map full control = false hide files = /aquota.*/ In /etc/krb5.conf [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log [libdefaults] default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM dns_lookup_realm = false dns_lookup_kdc = false ticket_lifetime = 24h forwardable = yes [realms] EXAMPLE.COM = { kdc = kerberos.example.com:88 admin_server = kerberos.example.com:749 default_domain = example.com } [FQDN] = { kdc = [sERVERNAME].[FQDN] } [domain_realm] .example.com = EXAMPLE.COM example.com = EXAMPLE.COM [FQDN]= [FQDN] .[FQDN] = [FQDN] [appdefaults] pam = { debug = false ticket_lifetime = 36000 renew_lifetime = 36000 forwardable = true krb4_convert = false }

I would install LDAP Capture which would get rid of the request for username and password when you tried to open a folder

You need to configure the smb-client on your server before it can talk to AD, that the reason you getting a blank page. The file you to configure is either smb.conf or samba.conf. these are in /etc or /etc/samba depending on your distro. I will try and track down a copy of the config and post here.

Two way data flow is possible as we are currently developing attendance modult that will sit in moodle and enable teachers to take a register and the data will be sent back using SIF. Capita are comitted to SIF, I am attending a meeting with Capita, Serco, RM and other regarding timetabling in SIF. The best thing to do is to come along to the next SIFA Meeting on the 9th & 10th November (venue TBA). @Grumbledook: attended the last meeting and found it enlighting .

I will be attending and hopefully presenting

The SIF community is here Welcome to the SIF Association there are currently 2 moodle SIF agents for moodle avaliable, one does basic course creation and enrolment and the other does course creation, enrolment, groups management and parental egagement.

You can write databack into SIMS.net if you used SIF. You could have data following between systems using one common API.

What you have described is currently available, the auto creation of courses and the automatic enrolments. I was the original author, there are other posts in this forum detailing where you can get hold of them.

The writer will be hard pressed to ever top that episode, but i went to the recording of the first episode of seasion 4 and the only i will say about it is EFFIEL TOWER!!!!

A Bit off topic but covers the reason of moving to silverlight, have your tried flash develop with the flex sdk? this will allow you to develop in flash for free.

Hi Tony, SIMS2MOODLE is released under the GPL Licence, under this licence there can be charges for distributio thats why it has been packaged with on-site installation and support. The GPL Licence allows the user to then modify the source code as the needs arises among other things.

If you are a moodle schools there are currently two MIS integration on offer, so your not stuck. Duke is right that the guidelines keep changing, the best answer is start looking now and plan for the integration over the summer, then have a gradual roll out to parents. I believe SWGfL is now getting its data via SIF, this allows parental engagement products to hook into to the infrstructure and get the data required.

It's possible to automate this process if you use SIF, there are sif agents available that will create staff and student acounts. When a student is added to your it automatically send a sif message is send and the account is then create in ad by the ad agent.