Applying Web Services to integrate LMS Moodle and Student Registration System
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- Moodle is well known, widely used open source Learning Management System (LMS). Many educational institutions use it as their platforms to conduct fully online courses or virtual learning environments. However, most institutions have their own database for student registration system. The problem is that these applications are generally developed independently by different technologies and different platforms. The institutions have difficulty to obtain integrated information from the existing systems and LMS Moodle that leads to duplication of the data and data anomalies. This paper aims to design a data integration service between Moodle version 2 and the student registration system by applying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), in particular, Web Services and the innovation of Workflow Services which these approaches can be a solution to address interoperability issues. We used the student registration system for Burapha University as our case study. The result showed that the data integration services allow Moodle to get automatically information from the student registration system.
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