Alfresco tie-in in Moodle 2.0

Sep 17th 2008
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As many of you reading this blog probably know, Moodle 2.0 sees the inclusions of two new API’s that will change how Moodle is used by educators. The first is the Portfolio API being worked on by Penny Leach and her team to allow for third party Portfolio additions and the second is the Repository API.

The Repository API will allow Moodle to pull data in and store information from external repositories. In the Alpha release so far we have seen tie-ins with Flickr to allow for students and teachers to use files from a Flickr Source.

Well today was a big day for me because Martin D (the man!) has announced that Alfresco will be available as Moodle Repository out-of-the-box when Moodle 2 is released.

“I can safely say this plug-in will be in the 2.0 release.” - Martin Dougimas

Obviously this is great news for many of us. (P.S. Martin of course has the right to retract this remark as development schedules change. He had just better not because I really want this) ;)

Not herd of Alfresco before? Alfresco is an Open Source document management system that specializes in:

More information can be found at http://www.alfresco.com.

The reason this makes me so excited is that one of my biggest issues has always been document control inside the LMS. Who owns wht document? Which is the right version? Who made these stupid changes last? Alfresco allows to control this far more effectvely.

Stay tuned for more info as I find it.

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3 Comments

  1. Sep 24th, 2008

    AlexNo Gravatar

    Hi Julian,

    I’m sorry about commenting in this post, but your “contact” form doesn’t seem to be working.

    I wanted to discuss a moodle project with you for my wife’s business.

    Let me know the best way to discuss the project with you.

    Cheers,

    Alex

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  2. Dec 2nd, 2008

    PKNo Gravatar

    It’s good to hear about Alfresco API in 2.0. I am recently exploring Alfresco on my own and found it as really powerful environment.
    If there is some way to collaborate on this or how to support it, please let me know, maybe I will be able to help :)

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