-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hoffman wrote: (lots of really informative stuff about SIF) ... > Moodle also needs to know > who is in the school. Eventually we want these three applications to > share this data. Without SIF, we'll need specific components to make > SchoolTool work with Moodle & LDAP, and they will probably end up > being somewhat brittle and inflexible. Each additional app we > interact with will require more custom code. If a Zone Integration > Server is included in Edubuntu, each of these would just require a > single SIF "agent" to be written that allows them to work with the > server. That is a non-trivial, but well-defined technical problem. > Once those agents were written, data sharing between all these > applications would be flexible and reliable. There was some interest in this on moodle.org a year or so back - have a glance at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=5674 (you can log in as guest to read) > > Writing an open source Zone Integration Server or SIF agents for > applications is not the kind of thing that people do spontaneously or > for fun, so if this is going to happen, it will need to be funded from > somewhere. Government funding for this kind of work is still pretty > avant garde in the US, but is seems like a real possibility in the UK. > Ahh, you'd be surprised - it might be worth raising this idea again over on moodle.org - perhaps the authentication forum? I believe someone in the US is about to release a presumably commercial SIF agent for Moodle, and there may be others.
You'll have heard of shibboleth no doubt? My understanding is that this can pass some of the student information, including group membership to web-based services like Moodle and (some) document repositories - I saw a cool demo of Moodle doing automatic login from a shiboleth identity server last week. Perhaps another to add to an expanding schooltool feature list! > --Tom > - -- Miles Berry Deputy Head St Ives School Haslemere www.stiveshaslemere.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDDdynr4l0LSzscoQRArT9AKCJ5B8hRWCxw/hFT9Xl6A1D5cdC3gCeKvv/ 5E1khOkyMzSpUkoHIaCxcIQ= =e3rU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
