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#72: Allow import/export of courses to/from Moodle
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Allow the ability to import and courses from Moodle and export them back to Moodle
- Proposed by
- Tom Caswell
- Proposal type
- User interface, Architecture
- Assigned to release
- State
- in-progress
Motivation
Many institutions have adopted Moodle as their institutional LMS. Allowing the ability for eduCommons to import and courses from Moodle (and possibly export them back to Moodle) could make starting an OCW with eduCommons much easier for these institutions.
Proposal
Allow the ability to import and courses from Moodle and export them back to Moodle.
Progress log
5/28/09
Research:
- Set up local instance of Moodle
- Explored IMS functionalities
- Moodle supports IMS Import
- No support for IMS Export
- Tested against new eduCommons IMS package
- No 3rd party Moodle plugins that support IMS Export well
- Need to explore importing Moodle Course Backup files into eduCommons, possibly
