Social networking tools
Integration of Elgg and Moodle – Martin Langhoff
Look out for the invisible hand
Focus of commercial social networking sites
Aggressive data mining
Sell
Coopt community
……profit
RiskyOwnership
ELGG
Socal networking
o Blogging
o File sharing
o Podcating (RSS)
Educational community focus
Open Source (GPL)
Customisable
Moodle Blogs
No ‘My friends’ focus
Lack some advanced blogging features
Contral to one Moodle installation
Student Community Hub
Access for students across Moodle setups
Opt-in registration
Single Sign on via Moodle
Access after student account lapses
Installing ELGG is not a trivial process. Difficult to do! Needs expertise
Single sign-on is possible through the use of backend stuff I do not really understand. Sounds very complicated.
http://get.catalyst.net.nz/gitweb - Do not go here very bazaar website! Extra plugins and other things for ELGG are available at the website.
HI-
I have a Moodle running and would like to add some external features such as blogs and student websites that can be publicly viewed. The moodle is completely private.
So I am looking at Drupal or ELGG. I am just wandering how tough it is to get ELGG to use the users in the Moodle DB? I would disable login and account creation on ELGG –I am assuming I can do that — so the only users are still from the school.
Ideas..comments?