Leverage the power of iMIS, the leading Engagement Management System, with the seamless integration capabilities offered by Lingel Learning’s innovative Moodle plugin. The plugin brings together the robust functionalities of iMIS and the dynamic e-learning environment of Moodle, creating a unified experience that empowers businesses to drive engagement, personalize user interactions, and achieve growth. Explore how this integration revolutionizes user engagement and simplifies management tasks.

Understanding iMIS: An Engagement Management System (EMS)

iMIS is more than just a system; it’s a holistic Engagement Management System (EMS) designed to optimize user engagement across various touchpoints. As the sole EMS with a global presence, iMIS serves as a pivotal tool for businesses looking to enhance user experiences. By effectively managing interactions such as product sales, event histories, training, and certifications, iMIS empowers businesses to tailor their offerings according to engagement trends, popularity, and demand. This system’s core focus is growth, achieved by consolidating business data with front-end services, seamlessly uniting data sources for a cohesive experience. Powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, iMIS ensures automatic upgrades, unmatched security, and peak performance.

iMIS Features that Propel Engagement

iMIS encompasses a comprehensive suite of features that pave the way for enhanced engagement and business growth:

• CRM, Data, Website, and Membership Management: Seamlessly manage customer data, website content, and membership details in one integrated platform.
• Integrations and Compatibility: Integrate with thousands of popular applications, streamlining processes and enhancing functionalities.
• Events and Learning Management: Efficiently manage events and offer robust learning opportunities to your audience.
• Certification and Product Sales: Streamline certification processes and manage online product sales seamlessly.
• Email Marketing and Automation: Deliver targeted messages with ease and automate workflows for enhanced efficiency.
• Dashboards and Reports: Gain valuable insights through comprehensive dashboards and reports, empowering data-driven decisions.

Explore the full list of iMIS features here.

Unlocking Seamless Integration: iMIS Moodle Integration with Lingel Learning

While iMIS doesn’t inherently integrate with Moodle, Lingel Learning’s dedicated efforts have resulted in a breakthrough iMIS plugin for Moodle. This powerful integration simplifies and enhances the user experience. Key features include:

• Two-Way Data Exchange: The plugin enables seamless data exchange between Moodle and iMIS, automating account creation, course enrollment, and progress tracking.
• Course and Activity Synchronization: Course completion and activity status are seamlessly synchronized between Moodle and iMIS.
• Group Information Updates: Any updates made to group information within iMIS are seamlessly reflected within the Moodle system.

Experience the transformational benefits of integrating iMIS and Moodle through Lingel Learning’s iMIS integration plugin. This collaboration not only streamlines user engagement but also empowers businesses to harness the combined potential of two

Why Choose Lingel Learning for your iMIS Integration?

• iMIS plugin is included free with any Virtual Slate hosting plan
• Virtual Slate is a custom framework built on top of Moodle, which means you get ALL Moodle features by default
• 2-way exchange of information between iMIS and Moodle

Bridging the gap

Moodle, the renowned learning management system, empowers educators and learners worldwide. However, despite its robust features, Moodle lacks seamless integration with WordPress, a popular content management system (CMS). Fortunately, Lingel Learning, a Certified Moodle Partner, has developed a comprehensive plugin that bridges this gap. In this article, we will delve into how the Lingel Learning WordPress Integration Plugin can help overcome these challenges.

Moodle Out of the Box

Manual User Account Creation

When instructors want to provide access to their Moodle courses, they must manually create user accounts. This process can be time-consuming, and challenging to manage for large-scale courses or rapidly growing user bases.

Disconnected Course Management

Without integration, administrators must manage course creation, updates, and deletions separately in both Moodle and WordPress. This disconnected approach can lead to inconsistent information and confusion.

Limited E-commerce Integration

If educators wish to sell their courses as products through WordPress, they face additional complexities. They may need to juggle multiple platforms, leading to potential payment processing issues, data discrepancies, and a fragmented user experience.

Complicated Order Completion

Handling course purchases through different systems can lead to confusion during order completion, leading to delays, potential disputes, and an overall dissatisfactory experience.

The Lingel Learning WordPress Integration Plugin: A Comprehensive Solution

Automated User Account Creation

The plugin streamlines the user onboarding process by automatically creating user accounts on Moodle when they register on the WordPress website. This seamless integration ensures that learners can access their courses without any manual intervention.

Course and Category Synchronization

The plugin synchronizes course data between Moodle and WordPress, ensuring that any updates made in one platform reflect in the other instantly. This real-time synchronization saves time, reduces administrative overhead, and eliminates discrepancies.

Effortless E-commerce Integration

Lingel Learning’s plugin enables educators to transform their Moodle courses into products on WordPress effortlessly. This integration simplifies the selling and purchasing process, providing a cohesive user experience for course buyers.

Order Confirmation Emails

To keep learners informed, the plugin automatically sends order confirmation emails upon successful purchases. This automated communication ensures learners receive immediate confirmation and relevant course details.

Why Choose Lingel Learning for your WordPress Integration?

• Expertise and Certification: Lingel Learning is a certified Moodle provider with extensive experience in Moodle implementation and customization.
• Customization Options: Lingel Learning’s plugin offers customization options, allowing educators to tailor the integration to their specific needs and preferences.
• Proven Track Record: Lingel Learning has a successful track record of delivering high-quality Moodle solutions to clients worldwide.

Lingel Learning WordPress Integration Plugin is a comprehensive integration, offering automated user account creation, course synchronization, and e-commerce integration, among other features. By choosing Lingel Learning, educators can ensure a seamless and efficient integration between Moodle and WordPress, providing learners with an enhanced and unified learning experience.

What is H5P?

H5P allows you to create rich HTML5 content within your Moodle LMS. H5P content can be easily shared, re-used, and embedded into various pages and sites across the internet. You should consider utilizing H5P activities if you strive to create more interactive, responsive, mobile-friendly content. H5P is a free and open-source technology that allows you to create immersive courses for your students.

Add H5P content to LMS

Ensure that you have the H5P activity plugin installed on your site before proceeding. You can find documentation for the H5P plugin by visiting: https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_hvp.

You can find examples and preset H5P content types to add to your LMS by navigating to: https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications

Select a content type that you wish to use. You can click the Reuse button in the bottom left of the H5P content type. You will then be prompted to download the (.h5p) file.

Within your Moodle LMS, navigate to your Content Bank. On this page click the Upload button and drag and drop the H5P file you downloaded earlier. After the file has been uploaded, you can choose to edit the H5P content to your preference.

For example, the accordion H5P content type allows you to edit the accordion panel titles and body text.

The H5P activity will now be available within your content bank. You can also choose to add additional pre-defined Moodle H5P content types via the add button:

Add H5P activity to a course

H5P activities can be added to the course similar to other activities and resources.

When setting up the H5P activity, you can provide an Activity name, optional description, and package file. You can select the H5P file from the content bank that we created earlier.

With H5P activities, you can also define additional attributes:

• Allow download: Whether the user is allowed to download the file H5P package.
• Embed button: Whether the H5P package is allowed to be embedded.
• Copyright button: Display the copyright button.

What else can H5P do?

H5P content is not just restricted to course modules, it can be used in a variety of ways. In your text editor, you can find the H5P button. Afterwards, you can click the Browse repositories button to select the H5P package you modified earlier within the content bank.

For example, you may want to add the H5P content to a course label. Try adding some interactive H5P content to your course page via the label resource.

H5P content can also be added to page resources: 

H5P activities can also be added to HTML Moodle blocks.

H5P can be used in a variety of ways. You are not just restricted to the H5P activity. The next time you are using Moodle, be on the lookout for the H5P button within the text editor. We are positive that H5P will help make your course stand out to your students.

What are authentication methods

Within Moodle, there are numerous ways to authenticate users into your site. These are often referred to as Authentication methods. You can set and view the current authentication methods for your site by navigating to:

Site administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication

You can disable specific authentication methods or move their order within the list of priorities. The table will also display the number of users that are using this authentication method to log into your site.

What is single-sign-on?

Single-sign-on is a service that allows a user to log into multiple websites and software with a single identity. For example, you may be familiar with using your Google account to log into multiple websites. This service is beneficial due to its simplicity, and not requiring the user to memorize multiple login credentials for various sites.

The SAML2 and OpenID are two popular single-sign-on plugins used within the Moodle community.

SAML2

The SAML2 plugin is a great choice because all the setting configuration is done within Moodle. This means that you do not need to perform any additional installs or utilize any extra applications. You can install the plugin and ensure that you have enabled it within the Manage authentication page. You may access the SAML2 settings from this page or follow the instructions below.

Access SAML2 settings page:
Site administration > Plugins > Authentication > SAML2

For more information on the SAML2 authentication plugin please refer to:
https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_saml2

OpenID Connect

The OpenID authentication plugin provides the single-sign-on functionality by utilizing configurable identity providers. These include the Azure Active Directory which is included in the Microsoft 365 suite of plugins. This plugin allows users to log into Moodle with their Microsoft 365 account. Users with the existing Moodle accounts can be switched over to this authentication type. In addition, new users can log in with this plugin and have a new Moodle account created for them.

Please ensure that you have enabled the plugin on the Manage authentication page. You can access the settings for OpenID Connect by clicking the settings link or alternatively by following the instructions below.

Access OpenID Connect settings page:
Site administration > Plugins > Authentication > OpenID Connect

For more information on the Moodle legacy OAuth2 authentication, plugin please refer to:
https://docs.moodle.org/400/en/OAuth_2_authentication

For more information on Google’s OAuth2 authentication plugin, please refer to:
https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_googleoauth2

Setting a user’s authentication method

A user’s authentication method can be updated or defined when the user account is created or when the user profile is edited.

For example, users who have the OpenID Connect authentication method may log into your Moodle site by clicking the OpenID Connect button on the login page.

Within Moodle, there are various methods for teachers to grade their students’ work. One of the most popular Moodle activities is the Assignment activity. With this activity, teachers can set up the grading method as follows:

• Simple direct grading
• Marking guide
• Rubric

In this blog post, we will be focusing our attention on the Rubric advanced grading method. The Rubric grading method can be utilised within Moodle for criteria-based assessments. Similar to how a rubric works in real life, it will consist of a set of criteria that is assessed against various levels of achievement in which each grade is assigned to a specified level. When the teacher marks a student’s work, they will select the level of work that the student has achieved for each criterion.

Eg: A criterion provided for Style, Content, Late submission penalty with the various levels provided.

Set up Rubric grading method for an assignment: 

When setting up your assignment activity (or by editing activity settings), teachers can select the grading method and
set it to Rubric.

Next, on the assignment activity page, click the settings drop-down and select the Define rubric option.

Note: You will be redirected to this page automatically if this is your first time setting up the activity and selecting the Rubric grading method.

1. Provide a Name and Description for this Rubric on the Define rubric page.

2. Next, provide a criterion and the corresponding levels. Additional criteria can be added via the + Add criterion button, and additional levels can be added via the + Add level button.

3. Additional Rubric options can be defined below.

Finally, click the Save rubric and make it ready button to apply it to the assignment activity.

Grade student submission with Rubric

 After a student has made a submission on the assignment activity, the teacher can go in and grade the submission.

On the assignment page, the teacher can click the Grade button to grade the student’s submission. In the right panel, under the Grade tab, the teacher can select the grade level for each criterion and provide a comment. In addition, Feedback comments can be provided below for the student to view.

The above image displays that the user received a 1⁄2 for Research and 1⁄2 for Grammer. The total assignment is worth out of 4 points since the max points for each criterion specified are 2. This results in the user receiving a 2/4 (50%) total mark.

In this example provided below, the total assignment would be worth out of /6 points. This user has received a 2⁄3 in Grammer and 3/3 in Research. This would result in a final grade of 5⁄6 (83.33%).

This will be reflected to the user when viewing their assignment grade:

What about Scale and Point grade types? 

When defining the grade settings for an activity, the teacher has the ability to specify the Grade type.