moodle and student record system integration charles.gibbons@jiscadvance.ac.uk 7 th august 2012

Moodle and Student Record System Integrationcharles.gibbons@jiscadvance.ac.uk

7th August 2012

Moodle and SRS High Level Use Cases

Moodle VLEStudent

Record System

Identity Manager /

Access Manager

Marking

Provisioning

Courses

Enrolments

Grades

Access Management

Moodle and SRS Data Architecture

Moodle VLEStudent

Record System

Identity Manager /

Access Manager

People

Enrolments

Courses Users

Enrolments

Courses

MarkingGrades

Users

Roles

Groups

Moodle and SRS Integration Architecture

Moodle VLEStudent

Record System

Identity Manager /

Access Manager

Nexus Adapters

Nexus Adapter

Provisioning, Authentication & Access Control

Nexus ESB

Nexus Adapter

Provisioning, Courses, Users, Marking

Enrolments, Grades

SRS Adapters Provided By Nexus ESB

• Nexus provides adapters for:– Campus IT Quercus– Tribal SITS– Ellucian Banner SIS– Capita UnitE– Oracle Peoplesoft– Unit4 Agresso CRM

Quercus and Moodle Integration

• Nexus provide adapters for Quercus and Moodle and have currently working demonstration

• Quercus event messages are published to a Nexus Queue

• These messages are transformed and written to Moodle using its own web-service plug-in

Tribal SITS and Moodle Integration

• Nexus provide adapters for Quercus and Moodle

• Nexus supports two main use cases:• Enrolment and provisioning• Assessment Data

• Tribal publishes enrolment and course change events and Nexus updates Moodle using Moodle’s own web-service plug-in

• Moodle publishes assessment data and Nexus updates SITS either with a direct database adapter or through a StuTalk web-service

Ellucian Banner and Moodle Integration

• Nexus provide adapters for Banner and Moodle

• Banner publishes enrolment and course change events and Nexus updates Moodle using Moodle’s own web-service plug-in or the Luminis Message Broker

• Banner/Luminis Message Broker is a Banner-Moodle integration enrolment module

Capita UnitE and Moodle Integration• Nexus provide adapters for Capita UnitE

and Moodle

• Nexus supports two main use cases:• Enrolment and provisioning• Assessment Data

• UnitE publishes enrolment and course change events and Nexus updates Moodle using Moodle’s own web-service plug-in

• Moodle publishes assessment data and Nexus updates UnitE either with a direct database adapter or through a web-service

Peoplesoft and Moodle Integration

• Nexus is built on top of the WS02 ESB platform which provides out of the box adapters for Peoplesoft

• Nexus can provide integration between Peoplesoft Student Record System implementations using the WS02 adapters

• Peoplesoft publishes enrolment and course change events and Nexus updates Moodle using Moodle’s own web-service plug-in

Agresso CRM and Moodle Integration

• Nexus currently provide a data integration adapter for Agresso based on CrystalReport

• Nexus can provide an API adapter to Agresso

• Nexus currently provide a Moodle integration adapter

• Agres so publishes enrolment and course change events and Nexus updates Moodle using Moodle’s own web-service plug-in

Moodle Marking Integration• There are four possible Marking Tools that can be integrated with Moodle:

1. Lightwork http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Lightwork

2. Gradebook / Checklist http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=gradeexport_checklist

3. Criteria Based Assessment http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/2012/01/10/criteria-based-assessment-in-moodle/

4. Manual Markinghttp://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Marking_guide

• Nexus can support any of these Marking Tools and can support Marking and Grading integration with different Student Record Systems

WS02 Data Services Server

WS02 Governance

Registry

WS02 Application Server

Nexus ESB Business Services

WS02 Enterprise Service Bus

SRS VLE LMS

IdM

Time tablingFinance

• Moodle• Blackboard

• Millenium

Standards:• SAML 2.0• Shibboleth• Liberty

• Aggresso• Oracle

Financials• Symmetry

• Quercus• SITS• Banner• Peoplesoft

DAM / CMS EDRMS CRM 3rd Party

Services• Transport For

London• Council Tax• DARE, Digitary

Standards:• CMIS

Standards:• CMIS• JSR-170

• Scientia• Serco –

Facility CMIS

HR Payroll

Estates Service desk

WS02 Business Process Server WS02 Business Activity Monitoring

Nexus Security Manager

• Northgate Arinso

• SAP• Oracle

• Northgate Arinso

• SAP• Oracle

• SAP • Hornbill – Support Works

Nexus Adapters &Standards

Nexus ESB Components

Nexus Presentation LayerOptional Presentation Layer

Nexus Complete Architecture

Want to know more?

• Arrange a full demonstration – http://www.nexus.ac.uk/contact

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• Twitter: @JISCNexus

• Email– charles.gibbons@jiscadvance.ac.uk– les.ormonde@jiscadvance.ac.uk– clare.mckenzie@jiscadvance.ac.uk

• Phone - 020 3006 6054