Tag Archives: IMS

Moodlerooms Doing Great Standards-Based Integration Work

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 25, 2009
I meant to get this up a while ago. Moodlerooms has been on a tear lately. First, they submitted a patch to Moodle to enhance integration with external systems for enrollment purposes. This isn’t standards-based integration in itself, but I’m told it aids with integration of things like LDAP and LIS. Next, they integrated Moodle [...]
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CSU Picks Moodle and ANGEL

By Michael Feldstein | Published: November 19, 2008
Cal State University, with its 23 campuses and 250,000 students, has signed contracts with Moodlerooms and ANGEL, according to Campus Technology. (I’ve known this was in the works for some time now, but I guess it just went official.) These are statewide pricing contracts; individual campuses still get to choose whatever system they choose. Still, [...]
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IMS Learning Information Services: Enabling Innovation

By Michael Feldstein | Published: September 11, 2008
In my previous posts on this topic, I outlined the mundate yet important core use cases that LIS is intended to address. Now I’d like to start looking at some of the sexier possibilities that the spec enables. In recent guest posts, Inigral’s Michael Staton wrote about the Schools on Facebook application and also let the cat out [...]
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IMS Learning Information Services: What a Solution Looks Like

By Michael Feldstein | Published: September 3, 2008
In an earlier post, I outlined the motivating pain that brought the working group members to the table. In this post, I’m going to list out the highlights of the solution we came up with to address that pain. Again, this post is focused mainly on the important but unsexy problems of SIS/LMS integration that [...]
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IMS Learning Information Services: The Motivating Pain

By Michael Feldstein | Published: August 18, 2008
Today Oracle announced the release of the Student Administration Integration Pack, or SAIP. It’s the first product that I have worked on as an Oracle employee, and I’m proud of it for a number of reasons. It’s not a particularly glamorous piece of software, but I think it’s going to be important. This is my [...]
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