[support] College Website Migrating to Drupal

[Chris Johnson]

The OpenID plugin/module for Moodle also supports single sign-on,
although if one wants to use the Drupal OpenID provider module, it
needs a few patches to work correctly.

Yes, Moodle 1.9 support CAS out of the box, although you will still
need a CAS server.

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..chris

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu> wrote:
> 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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