Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: moodle/lams presentation on moodle congress in Vienna and some questions

By: James Dalziel

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Hi Ralf,

Many thanks for presenting on Moodle and LAMS! I'll leave it to Ernie to comment on the other questions, let me just touch on one - how to integrate Moodle (or any other LMS's) tools into LAMS.

The simple way is to use a URL link from LAMS to a tool you've already set up in Moodle - we showed this in the original screenshots for the integration - see especially figure 13 from http://lamsfoundation.org/integration/moodle/walkthru.html

The more complex question is direct tool integration, so that, say, you could author a sequence within LAMS authoring, then run the sequence using Moodle tools. This turns out to be much more difficult than it might sound. I won't rehash all the issues here, but for a discussion of them (together with links to other past discussions of this issue), see my postings to a commentary on Sakai at Michael Feldstein's blog - my posts are 14 and 18. http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/comments/262/

The quick answer is that although this may be possible in the future, it will take *alot* of work. The two key things needed for this are (1) a tools contract/API that specifies how a (Moodle) tool communicates with the (LAMS) sequencing core; and (2) all tools need to be "sequencing enabled" (or to use terms from another context, all tools need to be "Learning Design aware").

Posted by James Dalziel