I have described in a previous post how to implement a basic parent portal in Moodle. In this post I will show a very convenient way to search for list parents of a given set of children. This is not easy to do using standard Moodle but very easy using the plugin Configurable reports and […]
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Moodle parent portal implementation
Moodle does not offer a parent portal. This maybe necessary in K-12 schools where confidential communications with the parents maybe required on a separate channel form the normal one that the student also has access to. There is a backdoor way to implementing a Moodle parent portal. This consists of several steps as outlined in […]
Continue readingSynchronizing LDAP with Moodle
LDAP is the well known Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to implement directory services. It is easy to install LDAP on your own LAMP stack VPS in the cloud such as the one in Digital Ocean. Having installed LDAP, how do we synchronize it to Moodle? remember, our LDAP is empty at the beginning. This will […]
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