Hosting of Learning Management Systems eg Moodle, Atutor, Eliademy

Saturday, Jan 26, 2019 by Scott Spence Hosting, LMS, Moodle, Atutor, Eliademy

At CourseSales.com we understand that smooth running of your registration and online course delivery is important. Having your LMS or student management system down means lost revenue. LMS like Moodle are very resource intensive, for this reason we encourage dedicated servers located close to a fast and secure ‘backbone’ internet connection. By using CourseSales.com Moodle servers you will be located on the same network as us - so the network connection between the two applications is fast.

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Moodle Integration and Plugins

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015 by Scott Spence Integration, Moodle, LMS

Moodle is an open source effort of many different developers. This means that while the expertise of many is leveraged in the development of the software it also means that changes can occur that while technically valid, even brilliant, might occur without clear documentation or notification. Changes to Moodle are therefore expected to break the plugins. For this reason we recommend that you constantly check CourseSales.com supports any updates that you are planning.

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Synchronise Users and Courses from Moodle to CourseSales.com

Thursday, May 14, 2015 by Scott Spence Moodle, Integration

Be sure to read our guidance about how to synchronize user and course data from CourseSales.com to Moodle. This is our recommended method of using Moodle, as then CourseSales.com can handle payments and other administrative duties such as Unique Student Identifier and AVETMISS reporting. However if you currently use Moodle to gather registrations it might be beneficial to continue using that method, and then have our plugins put each enrolement into CourseSales.

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SCORM, Tin Can, Moodle

Friday, Oct 10, 2014 by Scott Spence SCORM, Tin Can, Moodle

Many Training organisations use Articulate to create their course materials, and then wish to publish them in a standard format for import into a Scorm 2004 compliant Learning Management System (LMS). That standard, now 10 years old, is being replaced by a new version; Tin Can. A new term has arrisen called Learning Records Store, which is basically a Learning Management System that hosts the data associated to the learning content and records.

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Synchronise Users and Courses from CourseSales.com to Moodle

Tuesday, Sep 23, 2014 by Scott Spence Integration, Moodle

There are two ways you can set up CourseSales.com to interact with Moodle, by far the easiest is using the CourseSales.com Moodle Plugins, these give you control over the creation of courses, duplication of data etc. However you may wish to use Moodle export maps. CourseSales.com Moodle plugins CourseSales.com offer three Moodle plugins: Authentication (uses the username/password in CourseSales.com), Enrolment (receives registrations from CourseSales.com) and Local (where most settings are as well as managing completion).

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