Report at the MoodleMOOTglobal 2023 in Barcelona about the introduction of the Austrian Federal Education Portal

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Austrian Federal Education Portal
moodle goes e-gov
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023

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Vision – Citizen Service Portal for schools
• Single sign on and access management
Unification of different authentication methods
• Centralized cross-application dashboard
Personal, cross-application overview for everyone
• Educational technologies hub
Harmonization of and control over data exchange across partner applications
• E-Governmentservices
Electronic ID card for students, official digital signature on certificates etc.,
dual delivery in conjunction with official delivery by the Austrian government
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
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Vision – Citizen Service Portal for schools
• Single sign on and access management
Unification of different authentication methods
• Centralized cross-application dashboard
Personal, cross-application overview for everyone
• Educational technologies hub
Harmonization of and control over data exchange across applications
• E-Governmentservices
Electronic ID card for students, official digital signature on certificates etc.,
dual delivery in conjunction with official delivery by the Austrian government
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
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Shibboleth
Moodle
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Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
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Aggregated news from ministry,
directorates and schools
External linking and RSS feeds possible,e.g.
contributions of own homepage automatically
Widgets with internal functions and
information from EdTech partners
Bundling of user-related information from different
subject applications
Selection controlled by authorizations from edu.IDAM
Links lead directly to the respective application via SSO
Citizien Dashboard

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Educational Technologies Hub
• Partnership contract and data processing agreement
− Includes agreement about which interfaces each application can use
• Partner can integrate application and widgets (REST-API + JSON)
• Schools decide what application they use (access management)
− Widgets appear for the users of the respective school
− Partner can use interfaces agreed upon with ministry in the scope of the school
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
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Why MOODLE
• Austrian ministry has 20 years of experience with Moodle
− Largest Austrian learning platform eduvidual.at
− Know-How regard infrastructure and development
• Very flexible and open basis, many standardized and documented APIs
− Supports collaboration between several SME
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
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Figures and development
~ 800.000 users (expected to grow to approx. 3 million by 2025)
~ 800 schools activated (expected to grow to approx. 6.500 by 2025)
~ 80 people working in more than 30 teams
• Development of 12 Moodle plugins + customized app + Shibboleth extensions
− Currently not published
− Publication planned
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
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Thank you for
your attention!
Robert Schrenk
Barcelona, September 20, 2023
robert.schrenk@bmbwf.gv.at