Moodle Integration with Microsoft Live@edu

Seree Chinodom Kittisak Onuean

BURAPHA UNIVERSITY

Powerful Tool for Moodle

What is Moodle

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

Open source Learning Management System

User worldwide by thousands educational institutions

http://moodle.org/

What is Microsoft Live@edu

Free student email and online tools

Increase school ability to communicate and collaborate with a suite of online tools, including shared calendars, documents, and workspaces.

Keep your students, faculty, and alumni connected anywhere with online access on virtually any web-enabled device

Provide a co-branded hosted Exchange solution at no cost with Outlook Live (10GB/user)

Help to keep your students’ data private and promote online safety

Excite students with 25GB of online storage on Windows Live SkyDrive

Simplify online collaboration and document sharing with Office Live Workspace

Supported on all popular browsers on Windows or Mac, including Firefox and Safari

Live@edu services explained

Outlook Live

Send and receive emails, as well as schedule appointments and meetings in the calendar.

Windows Live Messenger

Stay in touch and chat using instant messaging, and share photos and documents.

Windows Live Sky Drive

Store, access, and share files with students –, it’s 25GB of free online storage that can be password-protected.

Live@edu services explained (continued)

Office Live Workspace

Store, share and work on files online without having to save them to your PC.

Windows Live Spaces

Create a space with its own Web address. Use your space to write a blog, share documents, lists, videos and photos, and keep information updated in one place.

Windows Live Groups

Create a group online for collaboration on projects, sporting and academic clubs, teams and more.

Anywhere access to your digital campus with one identity

Interoparable Services

AnywhereOnline Services

Custom Links

Links to other services, including Skydrive

Cobranded

Change online

“status”Notifications & Reminders

Calendar &Contacts

Start Real-time ChatMessenger

Contacts

>>Communicate Advanced messaging capabilities keep users connected with chat, video, voice, and text media.

Make voice and video calls

Create shared folders

Send text to mobile phones

Group chats with up to 15 people

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>>Collaborate Share large files and collaborate in real time with anywhere, anytime access.

Share files with SkyDrive—a password protected 25 GB

virtual hard drive

Link to SkyDrive documents from Facebook

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Create workspaces for different projects

Online companion to Microsoft Office

Collaborate Office Live Workspace is the online complement to the Microsoft Office system.

Save 1,000 Office documents

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Preview and edit documents online

Even if they don’t have Microsoft Office installed on their PC

Even if they’re on a Mac

Control who can view and edit documents

Collaborate Organize a study group, keep track of important school information, or coordinate with club or team members.

What is The Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle

The Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle is an open source project

Students and teachers can use their Windows Live IDs to sign in to Moodle and access Live Services, such as e-mail, instant messenger, and calendar without leaving Moodle.

http://www.educationlabs.com

System Requirement

Requirements: Moodle 1.9.x

Limitations: The plug-in has not been thoroughly tested with Moodle 1.8.x or earlier. Also the plug-in has not been integrated or tested with Moodle 2.0 dev builds.

Free Microsoft Live@edu Services In Moodle

Moodle is an Open Source LMS used in thousands of schools worldwideMicrosoft Live@edu provides free communications, collaboration and productivity tools to teachers and students– Email – IM– Calendaring– MSN Alerts– Bing Search

The “Microsoft Live@edu Plug-In for Moodle” enables these Live@edu services to be accessed via a single sign-on process within Moodle; and is available under the GPLv2

Single Sign-on to Moodle and Live Services via Live ID Authentication

Exchange Integration

Contextual Bing Search

WLID Single-Sign-On

Email CompositionWithin Moodle

(uses EWS APIs)

Calendar CreationWithin Moodle

(uses EWS APIs)

Setup Procedure

Create a Live Services account and get a Windows Live Application ID at live.azure.com.

Install PHP extensions required by the plug-in.

Download the latest version of MS4M.zip from Education Labs.

Unzip MS4M.zip to your Moodle installation folder.

In the Moodle admin panel, activate Windows Live ID authentication .

Configure Windows Live Services block with your application id.

Add Live Services block to your pages so that user can access it.

Set the right authentication option for Moodle users.

More Detail Setup Procedure

http://ncourse.buu.ac.th

Allow access to ncourse.buu.ac.th

http://ncourse.buu.ac.th

Support and resources

Should you need further support and resources, please visit these Web sites for more information

http://www.educationlabs.com/projects/moodleproduct/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu