Barging in here with a plug for Bodington - it's possible for each
'administrative zone' to be 'connected' to a separate SIS/SRS (for user
account feeds).
The caveat here of course is that there are not that many different SIS's
supported by Bodington at the moment!
Adam
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
| Of Harrison Tim (Staff)
| Sent: 16 May 2006 09:04
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: Re: [VLES] LEA Advises against Moodle!!??
|
| I can understand why some people go for hosted solutions but would like to
| know how they integrate with the College network. I want my users to have
| a single logon and for their academic information to be accessible to and
| from the MI systems so that the course lists match for example. I would
| not want to have to employ extra staff to keep the two in sync.
|
| A couple of people have mentioned remote hosting for Moodle, how do they
| get round these issues?
|
| Tim Harrison
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
| Of West,Michael
| Sent: 15 May 2006 12:29
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: Re: [VLES] LEA Advises against Moodle!!??
|
| Hi
|
| It looks like alot of schools are adopting the following VLE
|
| http://www.uniservity.com
|
| 1 in 10
|
| Any thoughts?
|
| Mikey
|
| Walker - Ted wrote:
| > We are a 14-19 Community College and have adopted Moodle as a whole
| > school VLE and are working hard to embed it across the college, with
| > some success and interest so far.
| >
| > The Local Education Authority has just sent out a letter to school
| > principals and heads discussing how schools should prepare for having a
| > learning platform embedded by 2008; the jist is essentially to wait and
| > see what they think might be best (as they haven?t yet made up their
| > minds) but, in any case, they explicitly advise schools not to use
| > Moodle (the only software mentioned in the letter) as it depends too
| > much on specific local support and knowledge. I think they are concerned
| > about the possibility of schools sharing resources, and that, in their
| > minds, ?non standard software? won?t network very well.
| >
| > I thought colleagues might be interested in this development, and would
| > appreciate any comments. We are considering what, if any, response to
| > make to this ourselves.
| >
| > Ted Walker
| >
| > Assistant Principal (Director of e-learning)
| >
| > Rawlins Community College
| >
| > Quorn
| >
| > Loughborough
| >
| > Leicestershire
| >
| > LE12 8DY
| >
| >
| >
| > [log in to unmask]
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