Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Comments on Moodle-LAMS integration

By: James Dalziel

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Just a general comment on LAMS compared to any other LMSs (Moodle included) - LAMS introduces a new step in the course authoring process.

In the traditional LMS, a teacher has editing access to a course, they do edits, and these are "live" immediately. There is no "intermediate" edited object separate from the live course.

In LAMS, there are two steps - you edit an "abstract" sequence first (using LAMS Authoring), then separate from this step, you choose a class for the sequence and then run it with this class (using LAMS Monitoring). This means you can edit independent of course delivery, and hence easily re-use your LAMS course/sequence structures without mucking up your current (live) course in your LMS. NB: It is this aspect of LAMS makes it possible to share sequences in the LAMS Community.

So for those who are testing LAMS with Moodle, my great thanks for helping us with this task. We've tried to link LAMS to Moodle in an intuitive way (although we welcome suggestions for improvement!), and have provided some short-cuts to starting sequences (given the Moodle course page can tell LAMS what the class is for launching the sequence in LAMS Monitoring) - but don't be surprised if something feels *different* in the LAMS authoring process.... it's not just a feeling

Posted by James Dalziel