Moodle External Database Enrolment for Automatic Student Sync
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Moodle External Database Enrolment for Automatic Student Sync
- 1. Moodle External Database Enrolment Yong Liu
- 4. Problems
- 5. Solutions
- 6. Challenge
- 9. 80% courses were online.
- 10. Mainly as a lecture notes library and notice board.
- 11. Lecturers set enrolment rules to enrol students.
- 13. Start using Moodle from 2006
- 14. By Feb 2010:
- 17. Moodle trial from mid 2009
- 18. Several trial course were put on Moodle
- 20. Synchronize Moodle accounts with external database.
- 22. 2276 students need to be enroled onto Moodle courses
- 23. 3002 existing users on Moodle
- 25. Use arbitrary user names, names and email.
- 26. Many of them have no identifications.
- 27. Many of them have blog and forum posts and grades on Moodle.
- 28. Can not directly implement external database enrolment.
- 30. Cannot create duplicated accounts.
- 32. Use Unitec course IDs for all Moodle courses
- 33. Suggest existing students put ID number into their Moodle accounts
- 34. Merge new student accounts with existing accounts.
- 36. Solutions External database new accounts – Merge criteria New student Compare Exist students Same user name? Yes No Same ID or same email + FULL name? Same ID or same email + FULL name? Yes No Yes No Merged with the same user names Use existing student’s user name but give another user name to the existing student Merged with different user names New students added Moodle DB students
- 37. Solutions External database account -- Merge 2276 students to enrol 1619 new students added 441 Merged with the same user names 181 merged with different user names Merge 2276 Moodle external DB students 35 no match but user names conflict 3002 existing Moodle users
- 38. Solutions External database accounts – Update External DB student Moodle Existing DB students Compare Compare Moodle Existing DB students External DB student Find a match? Find a match? Yes No Yes No Merge with Moodle no DB users Update info & Skip Suspend Update info & Skip
- 39. Solutions External database courses enrolment External DB course X student A Moodlecourse B student list Compare Moodle course list - Xis in the list? External DB course B studentlist Yes No A in Moodle course? Skip Yes No Unenrol from this Moodle course Enrol into this Moodle course Skip
- 40. Summaries Convenient authentication Convenient enrolment Automatic account creation Automatic course enrolment Extra work needed Exception required
- 41. Watch this presentation online http://www.slideshare.net/yong_liu/moodle-external-database-enrolment
- 42. Questions