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Hi, yes feel free to directly pm me From what I can understand based on your reply the sif agent is a piece of software that is capable of reading data from the MIS in its own format, it appears that groupcall's sif is a common popular agent? You mention zilink, is this another piece of software which is then able to read the information extracted by the sif agent and communicate with a vle (insert the extracted data)? I have heard the term blocks being used for Moodle, is this what you mean by a set of plugins? Can all of this be hosted locally and where is all the data actually stored please as you refer to data pushing. Thanks

Thank you for this information, according to groupcall they only give mention to SIF Groupcall reaches 1000 SIF Agent sales in the UK but nothing about ZIS although I have come across the term apart from this site Open Source Solutions for the Schools Interoperability Framework as well as http://www.sifsupport.com/wordpress/other-sif-related-articles/moodle-sif-agent/. Are you saying that the SIF agent just handles pure data in terms of extraction from CMIS / SIMS.net but works alongside some other software to work with a VLE i.e. zilink? For clarity is zilink some software that is installed on the end users server, does this contain the configuration details of the server and VLE? You refer to this pushing data into Moodle? Thanks

Hi, I believe it is the groupcall exporter sif agent.

Hi, I've been reading that an SIF agent is required to link user data extracted from a schools MIS and Active Directory into Moodle. Does anybody know if this setup be duplicated so you have two instances, with one being a live server and another testing server environment or are there some settings that prevent this duplication? Thanks in advance