[Xerte] Authentication

[Patrick Lockley]

We have no moodle here, or mahara.

 

I've not seen a working optimised moodle one yet, as I when I did the
integration proof of concept I just logged into moodle and then went to
toolkits when the session was still alive.

 

>From recollection (Ron, feel free to correct), we have something like
what you describe. The only feature that's not there is the log out
return to option, but that's trivial to code.

 

At the moment, Xerte is fully integrated into moodle in the profile
sense as we can harvest from the existing moodle session all we need to
set up a xerte online toolkits account.

 

WebCT offers us an option of posting urls into resources, which is quite
cool. Does moodle do anything like this?

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins
Sent: 29 May 2009 15:36
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Authentication

 

Have you seen the way Moodle and Mahara can be integrated using MNET
(Moodle Network)?

 

This gives an overview of how those applications can interface:

 

https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf

 

Once setup, in Moodle there is a link in the side block "network
servers" (default name). You click the link to "Mahara", and it logs you
in automagically, and copies over your profile. 

 

A simpler version of that for Xerte would be a nice trick as staff could
just click a link in Moodle and be logged into Xerte. When they logged
out of Xerte they would be returned to the page they were on in Moodle.
Very slick, great for staff moving between the two applications. 

 

Moodle would then handle all authentication for Xerte.

 

I am not sure how much work this would be. For Mahara the driver was to
allow students to send content from Moodle to their portfolio, with
Moodle 2.0 we will be able to do a lot more than just log in to Mahara.

 

Jeremy

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Rochford,
Thomas
Sent: 29 May 2009 15:11
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Authentication

 

Hi Ron,

 

Yes, if we can use Moodle as an authentication system then it makes a
lot of sense to ACL providers who can then take a wireless laptop into a
civic hall with Moodle on a stick and allow people to get onto both
Moodle and Xerte using adhoc wireless connections. The same obviously
goes for prisons. 

 

Kindest Regards,

Thomas

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: 29 May 2009 15:06
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Authentication

 

Do you have a moodle installation? Even if you don't as long as you
could install a copy this could be an easy solution for people to enable
alternative toolkits authentication which would include email
registration as well as account creation as that's all built in to
moodle. You wouldn't even need to use moodle as it could just be used as
the authentication method. If this were documented would it be of
interest?

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins
Sent: 29 May 2009 14:15
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Authentication

 

Hello All,

 

Are there any alternatives to LDAP authentication?

Is it possible to have for example email registration, or just create a
database of user accounts?

If this feature does not yet exsit, where which files would I need to
edit to create it?

For example, if I wanted to write a new auth method, where would I
change the function / method call?

 

Thanks Jeremy

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