Moodle Summit

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Moodle Site Enrollment

Course 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 TechnologiesYou determine the floor!

“30 Sec Elevator Speech”Ok, 10 to 15 min…

Heartland Confidential9

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– 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)

Drew Poggemann

Make Avstone A look like part of the jersey?


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– 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


Third Floor• Intranet / Extranet – SharePoint– 50% of all intranets built on SharePoint!– Community based collaboration– Excellent document management /

workflow– Enterprise search

• SharePoint Deployment Planning Services–Microsoft pays for SharePoint

Assessment– Utilize EA or SA credits (1, 3, 5, 10, 15

days)


Fourth Floor• Party floor! • It’s really all about relationships, isn’t

it?• Microsoft Dynamics CRM– 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


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


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)


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 iOS, Android, or both!


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!


Avastone’s Team

Drew PoggemannDirector of Technology

Aaron SwaagmanDevelopment Center

Custom softwareStaff AugmentationsTraining Dev. Teams

Jeremiah BrockmanMobile & Web

Mobile ApplicationsPhone & TabletsWeb Development

Craig GudemanBusiness Systems

SharePointCRM / xRMIntegrationsEnterprise Content Mgmt

Jo NormanPMO & Lean

PMO, PMLean

Tony SebionBI & Database

SQL ServerAnalyticsVisualizations Business Intelligence

Chris JanssenBusiness Solutions

Business AnalysisWebsitesMarketingSEO, Social MediaGraphic Design

Sherry BergDynamics GP Sales

Allen SchuetteDynamics GP Implementations


Moodle / SIS Integration

It’s a two way street

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 StateBusiness 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

http://www.skyward.com/

Users

Groups

Roles

Sample Integration Flow

Courses

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Moodle Middleware

On-DemandIntegration

Integration Status / History

Integration Configuration

Courses

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Users

Assignments

Groups

Roles

SIS

Integration Dashboard

Monitoring &Exception

Management

• LDAP• Identity Management• User Provisioning• SIS Integrations• SSO

Scheduling (Queue, Time,

File, Query)

Mapping / Translations

Pre-built Adapters

Secure, encrypted

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http://www.skyward.com/

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 coursescore_course_delete_courses() – delete coursescore_course_update_courses() – update coursescore_enrol_get_enrolled_users() – get enrolled students in a coursemod_assign_get_assignments – get course assignmentsmod_assign_get_grades() – get assignment gradescore_enrol_get_enrolled_users() – get list of users enrolled in a coursecore_enrol_get_users_courses() – get list of courses a student is enrolled intoenrol_manual_enrol_users() – manually enrol a student to a course

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Web_services_Roadmap




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


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 1st

Moodle Summit

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