Moodle Summit Enrollment into Moodle Site Enrollment Course

Moodle Summit

Enrollment into Moodle Site Enrollment Course Enrollment Section Enrollment

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Heartland Business Systems • Founded in 1990 – Little Chute, WI • 180+ Million Sales Revenue • 450+ Employees • CRN Elite 250 Award • Cisco 2013 Central SLED Partner of the Year • Cisco 2011 Americas K-12 Partner of the Year • Named to Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power awards as the top job creator in Wisconsin for the Business Services vertical • Voted top Information Technology Partner in WI by Corporate Report Magazine • VMware 2010 Academic Partner of the Year - Americas • Value Added Reseller / Systems Integrator • Key Partnerships with Technology Innovators • Featured Nationally for our Success

Avastone Technologies You determine the floor! “ 30 Sec Elevator Speech” Ok, 10 to 15 min…

Ground Floor • SQL Server – – Many customers have it (whether they know it or not ) Usually sprawling out of control Looking for virtualization, consolidation, HA, DR Foundation for many of customer’s critical applications • Avastone’s Offering – – – 9 SQL Power Play Best expertise in the Midwest (Tony Sebion) Remote or on-site analysis Train staff on tools used Report of findings and recommendations Low customer commitment (1 -2 days) Heartland Confidential

Second Floor • Most customers have data, not information… – – – Reports that run overnight, never finish No visible KPIs for front-line managers Spreadsheets running rampant Multiple systems, how to correlate? No system of truth / trusted numbers • BI Blitz – – – 10 Leverage tools companies own (Microsoft Office, SQL Server) BI solution in 4 weeks, not 1 year! Hand-in-hand with your staff Leave you trained with reporting and dashboards Continue to build upon this iteratively Heartland Confidential

Third Floor • Intranet / Extranet – Share. Point – 50% of all intranets built on Share. Point! – Community based collaboration – Excellent document management / workflow – Enterprise search • Share. Point Deployment Planning Services – Microsoft pays for Share. Point Assessment – Utilize EA or SA credits (1, 3, 5, 10, 15 days) 11 Heartland Confidential

Fourth Floor • Party floor! • It’s really all about relationships, isn’t it? • Microsoft Dynamics CRM – – 12 Not just for your customer relationships Replace those Access databases Application framework for LOB applications Asset Management, Fleet Management, Student Management, Transitional Care Management, “Any” Management Heartland Confidential

Fifth Floor • Time to play nice together! • Application Integration – – – 13 Cloud & On Premise Secure Translations, Mapping, Scheduling Management, Monitoring, Exceptions Adapters Heartland Confidential

Sixth Floor • Microsoft Dynamics GP – Multiple CPAs with many years of experience – Inventory control processes – Streamline / Automate (Sales, Purchasing) – Cash Management – Budget Control – Fund and Grant Management – Strong focus on education • Teacher Contracts (Avastone Solution) 14 Heartland Confidential

Seventh Floor • Web and Mobile – Customers thinking “Mobile First” – More web access via smartphones than PC’s – Kentico CMS – Easy to use, tons of features – Responsive Design, mobile optimized – Mobile apps for i. OS, Android, or both! 15 Heartland Confidential

Eighth Floor • Development Center – Custom built to customer’s specific needs – Leverage Microsoft. NET framework – Projects large and small – Take over customer’s application support – Avastone and Heartland – IT soup to nuts! 16 Heartland Confidential

Avastone’s Team Drew Poggemann Director of Technology Allen Schuette Dynamics GP Implementations Sherry Berg Dynamics GP Sales Chris Janssen Business Solutions Aaron Swaagman Development Center Jeremiah Brockman Mobile & Web Craig Gudeman Business Systems Tony Sebion BI & Database Jo Norman PMO & Lean Business Analysis Websites Marketing SEO, Social Media Graphic Design Custom software Staff Augmentations Training Dev. Teams Mobile Applications Phone & Tablets Web Development Share. Point CRM / x. RM Integrations Enterprise Content Mgmt SQL Server Analytics Visualizations Business Intelligence PMO, PM Lean 17 Heartland Confidential

Moodle / SIS Integration It’s a two way street 18 Heartland Confidential

Integration Challenges • Closed Systems – Many don’t really want integrations (all you need is ours!) • Standards – SIF tried but not strongly adopted, challenging to configure • Complex Environments – Multiple systems, multiple technologies, cloud, on premise • Tight Integrations – Database level can be brittle (most common) • Net Change Pattern – Supporting changes depends on source system capabilities • Management – Scheduling, exceptions, performance, upgrades

Target State Business and Technology Integration • Secure – Job 1! Must follow FERPA guidelines and keep Personally Identifiable Information (PII) secure • KISS – Must be simple and straight-forward to setup supporting cloud and on premise systems • Flexibility – Adapt to specific mappings or rules within district • Scalable – Support small to large implementations • Management – Alerts, notifications if / when problems do occur • Extendibility – Same model to integrate many systems • Abstraction – Separate interface from implementation • Reuse – Logic must be reusable across many districts reducing time to implement. Pre-built adapters to connect multiple systems

Example Architecture • Leverage Middleware Framework – – – • Scheduling, Mapping, Adapters Monitoring & Exception Management Reduce custom coding Configurable templates Must be easy to use Build Adapters – Moodle (Courses, Gradebook, Enrollments, Groups, Roles) – Others (Library, GL/Finance, Professional Development, GAE) – Map to SIS environment • Advantages – – Leverage middleware capabilities Application hosting portability Pre-built adapters with ability to extend Enterprise model for integration

Sample Integration Flow Moodle Enrollment Assignments Gradebook Integration Dashboard Monitoring & Exception Management Scheduling (Queue, Time, File, Query) Mapping / Translations Middleware Pre-built Adapters Secure, encrypted traffic Courses Enrollment Assignments Gradebook SIS Groups Integration Configuration Courses Users Integration Status / History LDAP Identity Management User Provisioning SIS Integrations SSO Roles Groups Users Roles On-Demand Integration • • •

Moodle Integration • Many required Moodle web service apis already exist (subset below) – http: //docs. moodle. org/dev/Web_services_Roadmap core_course_create_courses() – create courses core_course_delete_courses() – delete courses core_course_update_courses() – update courses core_enrol_get_enrolled_users() – get enrolled students in a course mod_assign_get_assignments – get course assignments mod_assign_get_grades() – get assignment grades core_enrol_get_enrolled_users() – get list of users enrolled in a course core_enrol_get_users_courses() – get list of courses a student is enrolled into enrol_manual_enrol_users() – manually enrol a student to a course

Challenges • SIS Environments – Open up APIs for inbound integration • Net Change – Identifying records that have changed without comparing all (which is inefficient) – Conflicts (identifying master / rules) • Flexibility – Strong integration architecture with flexibility to change some rules by district 24 Heartland Confidential

Next Steps • Establish a group of districts to be part of the beta/pilot group (5) • This group would help influence the design • Continue to work with Skyward to gather requirements • Need to establish group by April 1 st 25 Heartland Confidential