ElluminateLive module
Introduction
Attention Elluminate Users!
Elluminate Inc. has announced an integration with Moodle this past week at EDUCAUSE 2006 in Dallas Texas. With this integration an instructor or admin can now add an Elluminate Live! meeting activity within their Moodle course from the 'Add an activity' drop-down list. All meeting setup is done within Moodle rather than the Elluminate management portal. There are options for grading and for accessing pre-recorded meetings. Participant sign-on is passed from Moodle to Elluminate when they enter a meeting (single sign-on). A brief description of the integration is shown below. This module has been contributed by members of the Moodle Partners program. Support for this module will be available in the US through Remote-Learner.net and in Canada through Open Knowledge Technologies. Elluminate users and interested parties should contact their Elluminate representative for installation and support details.
NOTE: Please refer to the discussion on this subject for more information.
Module Features
- Communicates with an Elluminate Live! server using SOAP web services.
- Allows an admin / teacher to schedule an Elluminate meeting with a Moodle activity.
- Moodle manages user accounts automatically on the Elluminate server so users accessing a meeting from Moodle do not require a second sign-on.
- When setting up a meeting the course creator can specify a description, time and date and whether the meeting should be recorded. A Teacher can also assign a Grade value for attendance and specify whether this will be a private meeting.
- The admin/teacher has the option of updating the automatic attendance that is set when a user clicks on the join meeting link. A user could, in theory, click an activity link and be marked as attended so a teacher can update that status after the meeting if it's incorrect.
- Meeting moderators (and participants if the meeting is private) are managed within Moodle.
- In the future when Moodle has Roles added this feature will evolve to allow student mentors for example to be added as a meeting moderator.
- Integrates with the Moodle calendar creating course or user events depending on whether a meeting is public or private
- All standard Reports and Logs are available within Moodle's 'Activity report' screens for admin/teacher.
- There is an Elluminate Live! 'block' that displays Recent recordings available to participants who missed an event.
