Introduction These days one of the biggest trials faced by most of the organizations is to manage all the documents at one place and ensure high productivity thereby. This document summarizes the details about the integration of Moodle and Office 365 based solution and benefit for the educational institution in US.

1. Case Study
Office 365 and Moodle Integration
Prepared By
Deepesh Verma
Ignatiuz Software Pvt. Ltd.
600 Eagleview Blvd #300, Exton, PA 19341
Tel: 484-876-1867 | Fax: 484-206-4141
Last Modified On: March 11, 2016

2. Case Study
Office 365 and Moodle Integration
Ignatiuz Software Pvt. Ltd.
484-876-1867 | www.ignatiuz.com | info@ignatiuz.com
Introduction
These days one of the biggest trials faced by most of the organizations is to manage all the documents at
one place and ensure high productivity thereby. This document summarizes the details about the
integration of Moodle and Office 365 based solution and benefit for the educational institution in US.
Problem Statement
The client is an educational institution of US. The client has been struggling to manage all the documents
and courses at one place. The teaching staff and students have to manage their courses, documents,
question banks, feedbacks, assignments, etc. The whole process was lengthy and time consuming. The
teachers used to add the courses, question banks, grades, reports, assignments, etc. on Moodle. The
Office 365 was helping for storage of documents, online document editing, team sites integration etc.
The client wanted to have a stable solution which can make the whole process easy to automate for the
students and teachers both. The main features required were:
 Easy login process.
 Secured authentication to maintain integrity.
 Integration for courses, assignments and feedbacks online as well as offline.
 Real time editing while sharing the changes made.
 Manage documents under single environment.
Challenges faced
 Client was running with older version of Moodle that was not supporting integration.
 We have to update Moodle to latest version. The process was little bit time consuming
but it was one time process which helped client and us for the integration. Client was
using on premises active directory. We have to integrate the on-premises identities with
the Azure active directory. We have used Azure AD connect tool which helped us to
integrate the on premises identity with the Azure AD. We have later used Azure AD to
integrate with Moodle.
 Client was using Lync which also needed the integration.
 We have to use the third part API to get the data from Lync and display it in the
integrated Moodle Site.
Solution Implemented
A custom solution was developed integrating Moodle and Office 365 to meet the client’s requirements.
The custom solution is provided with the following features:

3. Case Study
Office 365 and Moodle Integration
Ignatiuz Software Pvt. Ltd.
484-876-1867 | www.ignatiuz.com | info@ignatiuz.com
 Single sign on process for both Moodle and Office 365 by integrating them.
 Role based authentication to maintain the integrity and security for courses, question banks and
user data.
 Advance data protection to keep the data safe.
 Real time editing for assignments, versions of the changes made provided with instant feedback
to the students.
 Document management with authenticated versioning’s under single storage space accessible
online as well as offline.
 All time access to the assignments helpful to work from home.
 Calendar integration with personal account for each and every activity.
 Access to the data over any of the devices.
Features
There are innumerable features of Office 365 and Moodle Integration for Education that make it a must
have for the institutions. Few of the major features are listed below:
Single Sign On
Automated single sign on process for signing into Moodle and
Office 365.
Office Online 24 x 7 access to the data and documents online as well as offline.
Cost Effective
As the documents can be accessed from a single window so the
operational cost reduces resulting in Cost effective.
Secured Secured environment.
Paperless Paperless maintenance of documents.
Easy Process Easy process for all type of users.
Space for Maintain
Documents
Large space available to maintain the documents integrated with
data.
Edited old Version Version maintenance for documents edited.
Real-time
Notification
Real time activity notification to teachers and students.
Mobility Mobility of data.

4. Case Study
Office 365 and Moodle Integration
Ignatiuz Software Pvt. Ltd.
484-876-1867 | www.ignatiuz.com | info@ignatiuz.com
Advance
Protection
Advance data protection to keep the data safe.
Calendar
Integration
Calendar integration with personal account for each and every
activity.
Easy Access Access to the data over any of the devices.