Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Using Moodle Forums

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Josep,

It is possible to use Moodle forums within LAMS as we display in the walkthru. The way you can do it is by create them in Moodle (as you normally do: turning on the editing mode, selecting the type of tool/activity, editing the content, save it, and then getting the hyperlink that launches the activity), and then add the link to an HTML noticeboard as an iframe or as a link into a Share Resource.

I think the confusion about using Moodle tools in LAMS authoring (when you are designing your sequences) and see them as activity tools that you can drag and drop to create a LAMS sequences is not possible in our current version (1.0.x). The reason being that our tools and sequence engine are very much the same thing, creating a monolithic type of system.

We realized that about a year and a half ago we decided to redesign LAMS to have a very clear separation between tools and LAMS core, so you can have pluggable tools that by using the LAMS API can 'talk' to the back end even if the LAMS Core and the tool aren't written in the same programming language. This is what we usually refer as the new version or LAMS 1.1.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione