Teacher Assistant for Lanschools - Using the iPad as classroom computer controller

Oct 7

posted by Mark Christie in Management Software, iPhone, iPad, LDAP, Apple | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

My brother and his work colleague Kim put me onto LanSchools. Although we would like to think that all students (be they adult or K-12) diligently use their computers for the tasks related to their learning, human nature sometimes gets in the way and this software solution allows teachers to control individual computers in a class and by pairing it with an application on the iPad, the teacher can roam through the class or stand at the whiteboard/lecturn presenting or reviewing computer screens. Students can also ask questions of the teacher using the software.

This is great because it offers both options of mobility or positioning in a classroom that is entirely up to the teacher.

What is more, it seems that it is free with the light version of the product. The iPad application is certainly free and all you need is a wireless access point that can be used within the classroom.

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Using LDAP within Moodle

Apr 14

posted by Mark Christie in Moodle, LDAP | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

This is only an explanation of how we achieved this within my work organisation. We have a centralised identity management system based on Active Directory and LDAP. There are about 50,000 accounts in this directory and we wanted our users of Moodle to be able to login to Moodle using these credentials.

We firstly configured the LDAP section of Moodle which was a process that took longer that I would have liked, however once completed we ran a small piece of code that downloaded the LDAP account details, minus passwords.

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