Alex Little

Sourceforge have now confirmed the registration of our JoinIn project, the link to it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/joinin, but obviously there’s nothing there yet. I’ve been having more discussions on our team to sort out various issues, for example which database formats we are going to support, which versions of Moodle etc we’ll be using. I’ve also received further clarification from Ernie about how the Moodle/LAMS link up will work, regarding the groups. So I’m just updating our document and will post it up shortly (as I keep saying!!). Juliette as also been looking up on the Moodle forums queries and problems from real users regarding groups, to see how our toolkit can help address them. However, we do need to remember that we’re doing a toolkit which could be used for any VLE, we’re not just doing Moodle development, though we happen to be using Moodle as our first VLE to test the toolkit architecture on.

Have also had an email from Sam at JISC regarding which version of IMS Enterprise and the SDK we’ll be using. At the moment it looks like we’ll have to start off  using Scotts SDK (which uses v1.0 of Enterprise), as it’s likely that a newer version won’t be available for a few months. Depending on the timing of the release of the new version, and how much the API and outputs have changed to the current version, we’ll try and use the more recent version in our toolkit.