Summary

We've covered a lot of fairly technical ground in this chapter. Managing repositories and portfolios requires some technical configuration, but the benefits of both systems can far outweigh the initial effort required. Once you have the systems set up, you usually don't have to worry about the configuration unless something in your system changes.

In this chapter:

  • We set up Alfresco and Google Docs to act as file repositories for Moodle
  • We practiced adding content to Alfresco and linking that to Moodle
  • We also looked at setting up Alfresco to help automate some of the content conversion services
  • We practiced setting up your Google Docs account and linking to content from Google Docs
  • On the portfolio side, we practiced setting up a basic Mahara instance, as well as linking the Portfolio system to Google Docs
  • We set up a Mahara view to share content from Moodle
  • We exported forum content to Google Docs for editing and sharing

There is a lot more to learn about Alfresco, Mahara and integrating them with Moodle. The integrations will continue to evolve and some Moodle partners offer alternative integrations with different features sets. This is an area where we will see a lot of growth over the next few years.

Next, we will cover transitioning to Moodle by integrating Moodle with backend data systems and configuring the theme.

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