[support] College Website Migrating to Drupal

[Metzler, David]

Many schools, including ours use Yale's Central Authentication Services
(CAS) server to provide single sign-on between drupal sites and moodle
sites.  There is a CAS module that can help but you'd still need to
implement a CAS server.  Current versions of Moodle support CAS out of
the box IIRC. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Jai
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:18 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] College Website Migrating to Drupal

Even I completely agree with you people. I don't have anything like
Drupal Vs. Moodle. While one is a completely generic solution and
provides a tool box and basic building material for making something,
Moodle is a specific solution to Learning Management Task ONLY.

Definitely I don't have any doubts in the capabilities of Drupal over
here. It must be possible to implement everything we can do using Moodle
(And I am a big fan of Drupal for not being a system geared towards a
specific work, that's why I am here ! ), but that needs work-arounds.
Where Moodle already presents itself as an out-of-the-box solution for
specifically Learning Management Tasks. I am not talking about making an
informative website for the college using Moodle. It's just the Learning
Management part of it, where teachers can assign student with some work,
different kinds of evaluation schemes, quizes etc. and similarly
students can join some courses, discuss upon some topics. submit
assignments given to them etc.

That's the only reason I am thinking about a solution where Drupal and
Moodle are integrated, having a student sign in only once to get
authenticated on both the systems, where I could have Moodle as an LMS
and Drupal for all other functional requirements.

-Jai

2008/11/26 Shyamala Rajaram <shyamala at netlinkindia.com>
>
> Totally agree. Nothing can beat the flexibility of Drupal. We too have

> integrated Drupal and Moodle, Used Drupal for all the content and 
> business rules and ecom, Moodle for rendering SCORM courses and the 
> brilliant Quiz engine.
>
> Shyamala
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] 
> On Behalf Of Chris Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:41 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] College Website Migrating to Drupal
>
> It depends on what you want to do.  Moodle is not a "content 
> management system" (CMS), if one can consider Drupal to be that.
> Moodle is a "course management system" (unfortunately, the same 3 
> initials CMS).  Moodle handles courses, assignments, grading, etc.
> Moodle does have some more generic features, but Drupal is far more 
> flexible.
>
> So if you want a content management system, Drupal is the obvious 
> choice.  If you want a system that has some more specific educational 
> capabilities, but has some very simple forum and blog features, Moodle

> might work for you.
>
> I'm working on a bunch of Moodle / Drupal integration stuff right now.
>  We have clients who want to use both together.  It's all built on D6,

> and should be in the drupal.org CVS repository in the next month or 
> two.
>
> On the other hand, one could develop the necessary additional features

> supported by Moodle right in Drupal.  That just hasn't been done yet.
>
> ..chris
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:45 AM, sivaji j.g <sivaji2009 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>  I find moodle to be a good out-of-the-box solution. I was 
> >> searching for the ways so that moodle and drupal could be
integrated in some way.
> >
> > lol, i dont think that other CMS will be as flexible as drupal :P.
> >
> >
> >
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