eds.activemath.org

As part of the ActiveMath-EU effort, integration into open-source LMS have to be considered. This time I am following a hack that find somewhat elegant to integrate into Moodle an ActiveMath that is “slaved by this Moodle”: both Moodle and ActiveMath share a domain, and Moodle’s Apache config is extended to proxy to ActiveMath all queries in a sub-path. In turn, ActiveMath can use this to read identity of the queries. Have a test on our test moodle

This tastes clearly like a hack and is not as general as IMS tools interoperability. But the latter specification is very big and only implemented for a handful of LMS (yet).

In a sense, this integration is tighter: it is really about an ActiveMath that is devoted to one single Moodle.

Conversely this integration avoids any modification in the Moodle and is very easily generalized, simply adapting the map from the names (and values) of the user-profile-edit page to the names (and values) inside ActiveMath. For example, it is highly probably that a drupal integration will come as well.

I would be looking for testers that use routinely Moodle. We shall need to add two lines into the Apache config of Moodle and a handful of lines within the ActiveMath.

thanks to contact me.

paul