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Moodle has been integrated with a variety of other systems. This page lists the most commonly-used ones.

SME Server

For Moodle 1.83
Moodle is maintained as 2 RPM packages, moodle and smeserver-moodle which means that if you run the SME Server operating system, you can install Moodle very easily.
Maintainer: http://www.dungog.net/wiki
SME Server Moodle Documentation: http://wiki.contribs.org/Moodle

Debian

For Moodle 1.6+
Moodle is maintained as a Debian package, which means that if you run the Debian operating system, you can install Moodle very easily.
Maintainer: Isaac Clerencian
Debian Bug report logs: http://bugs.debian.org/moodle
Debian download: http://packages.debian.org/moodle

FreeBSD

For Moodle 1.5+
Moodle is available as two packages for FreeBSD, one for MySQL and one for PostgreSQL.
Maintainer: Kevin Lo
FreeBSD download: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/

Fantastico

For Moodle 1.8.4
The Fantastico system for Cpanel provides one-click installation for a number of open-source software packages. Moodle has been part of Fantastico for years now as the standard package for Education within the suite. The majority of cheap web hosts on the Internet use Fantastico allowing you to install Moodle with a single click.
Discussion: http://www.netenberg.com/forum/
Maintainer: Netenberg
Fantastico De Luxe: http://netenberg.com/fantastico.php

Here is a sample of what Moodlers have reported about their experiences with Fantastico over the last few months in the Installation Problems forum, in chronological order, starting with the oldest:

4PSA Integrator

This product is just like Fantastico, but for the less-common Plesk control panel. And yes, Moodle is in there too.
Maintainer: 4PSA
4PSA Integrator: http://www.4psa.com/products/4psaintegrator.php

Joomla

A Joomla component (1.3 and 1.5) that, when added as a Joomla menu link, will log Joomla users into Moodle.
Can use either Joomla authentication (with Moodle using the external database authentication plugin) or Moodle authentication (with Joomla using the available Moodle authentication plugin).
For more information see:
- http://promoodle.com

Mahara

Affectionately known as Mahoodle
It's all built in to Moodle (1.9) and Mahara. At the moment it really just means single sign on and automatic account creation.
There have been a few bugs sorted recently, so make sure you are running up to date versions of both
Setting it all up has quite a few steps that need to be followed carefully - it's documented here (PDF) - https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf

Mambo-Moodle 1.0

For Moodle 1.4
This is a module for Mambo that allows it to merge very nicely with a Moodle installation.
Maintainer: Cas Nuy
No longer supported download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/mambo_moodle.zip

Mediawiki

For information on this integration (still in early stages), see:

Moodle Cron for Windows 2.0

This Windows package installs a service to automate some tasks on Windows servers (on Unix servers and most webhosts you can just use the built-in cron tool).
Maintainer: Peter Honan, Petr Skoda
Download: http://download.moodle.org/download.php/windows/MoodleCron-Setup.exe

pnMoodle

No longer supported
This is a 2003 module for PostNuke and Moodle that allows an existing Moodle installation to appear within a PostNuke installation, with single sign-on and even sideblocks.
Maintainer: Cas Nuy
Downloads: http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/pnMoodle.zip and http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/pnMoodle20.zip

Drupal Moodle

SSO Module

Moodle Modules and plugins

Maintainer: Cas Nuy

Download: No longer at download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/drupal_moodle.zip

Update (Victor Kane)

Version of this module which supports the new Drupal 5.0 beta and Moodle 1.7.x

Page: http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/174

Download: http://awebfactory.com.ar/files/moodle.tgz

From reading various links in Sept 2009, SSO can serve as a database to confirm usernames and passwords. It does not provide a dual log in function where the goal is for an authenticated user to only login once.

OpenAcademic

An approach emphasizing Single Sign On using OpenID to connect Drupal, Moodle and Mediawiki. OpenAcademic is also looking at methods of moving content between Drupal and Moodle. This project looks to create a system simple enough for a small school/organization to install, yet robust enough to scale upwards (with the right hardware/staffing) to support large institutions. All code developed with this project will be released back to the open source community.

Workforce Connections

For Moodle 1.3
Moodle forms the core of this US Government package designed to "Empower the 21st Century Knowledge Worker".
Maintainer: U.S. Department of Labor
http://workforceconnections.dol.gov/

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