Dear Miles
many thanks indeed for posting this - very useful indeed.
Is the text instruction you were posting from a website (and if so which
pages/url)? where should I direct my tech team if I'd like them to explore
this.
many thanks
Tristram
Oxford University
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Harrison Tim (Staff) wrote:
> That then raises the next, somewhat obvious, question. If IMS student
> import is not supported then how do people get data from MIS into
Moodle
> regarding courses and other student details? This needs to be done on
a
> regular basis to keep the course lists up to date.
Moodle will happily update course enrollments from text files dumped
into a central location:
"This method will repeatedly check for and process a specially-formatted
text file in the location that you specify. The file can look something
like this:
add, student, 5, CF101
add, teacher, 6, CF101
add, teacheredit, 7, CF101
del, student, 8, CF101
del, student, 17, CF101
add, student, 21, CF101, 1091115000, 1091215000"
Moodle can also use LDAP for enrollment, as well as authentication
"You can use an LDAP server to control your enrolments. It is assumed
your LDAP tree contains groups that map to the courses, and that each of
thouse groups/courses will have membership entries to map to students.
It is assumed that courses are defined as groups in LDAP, with each
group having multiple membership fields (member or memberUid) that
contain a unique identification of the user.
To use LDAP enrolment, your users must to have a valid idnumber field.
The LDAP groups must have that idnumber in the member fields for a user
to be enrolled in the course. This will usually work well if you are
already using LDAP Authentication.
Enrolments will be updated when the user logs in. You can also run a
script to keep enrolments in synch. Look in
enrol/ldap/enrol_ldap_sync.php.
This plugin can also be set to automatically create new courses when new
groups appear in LDAP."
--
Miles Berry
Deputy Head
St Ives School Haslemere
www.stiveshaslemere.com
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