Moodle export-import format investigation

Added by Lance Speelmon, last edited by Lance Speelmon on Sep 17, 2009  (view change)

<MOODLE_BACKUP>
  <INFO>
    <NAME>backup-x101-20090916-1504.zip</NAME>
    <MOODLE_VERSION>2007101551</MOODLE_VERSION>
    <MOODLE_RELEASE>1.9.5+ (Build: 20090916)</MOODLE_RELEASE>
    <BACKUP_VERSION>2008030301</BACKUP_VERSION>
    <BACKUP_RELEASE>1.9.4</BACKUP_RELEASE>

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Comments (3)

 

  1. Sep 17, 2009

    Lance Speelmon says:

    From Mark Norton: "It seems to me that a great deal of this information is highl...

    From Mark Norton: "It seems to me that a great deal of this information is highly specific to Moodle... I've seen similar files for Blackboard and WebCT.  They are not intended to be an interchage format.  Rather, they are a backup and restore mechanism... It might be better to work with Moodle to agree on an interchange model based on IMS-CP, perhaps drawing on some of the recent IMS-CC work."

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.devel/32865

  2. Sep 17, 2009

    Lance Speelmon says:

    From Sean Keesler: "I learned at a recent MoodleMoot that the next version of Mo...

    From Sean Keesler: "I learned at a recent MoodleMoot that the next version of Moodle will have some provision for allowing normal users to export their own
    course data (at different layers of granularity) to some "other" system (OSP is mentioned amongst others).
    http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Portfolio_API"

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.devel/32869

  3. Sep 17, 2009

    Lance Speelmon says:

    That was the conclusion I was reaching as well, but I did not want to be the fir...

    That was the conclusion I was reaching as well, but I did not want to be the first person to say it.    I agree that their course backup format looks way too specific to the Moodle data model.  While they do have a more reasonable format for test and quiz questions, that does not go very far towards helping us with a complete transition (i.e. export from Sakai 2, import to Sakai 3).  http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_XML

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.devel/32890