Moodle + Office 365: Better together
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1.Objectives of this paperThis paper aims at providing the audience with a better understanding of the Moodle with Office 365 integration, how it works and can be easily deployed, along with the related configuration of the various plugins. For that purpose, this document also provides a complete end-to-end walkthrough to not only illustrate how to smoothly rollout the Moodle with Office 365 solution but also as an opportunity to depict how the Microsoft Azure15 platform can be a more than ideal candidate to host your Moodle platform. Note Microsoft Azure is a flexible and open cloud computing platform hosted in Microsoft datacenters delivering scalable and reliable Internet-scale services. It offers on-demand access to these services, so that users only pay for what they use, while benefiting from almost unlimited capacities. As an IaaS platform (Infrastructure as a Service), it enables you to deploy (complex) workloads (servers, networking and storage infrastructure) in the cloud that you can control and manage on your terms. These capabilities will be illustrated in this document. Also, as a PaaS platform (Platform as a Service), it includes a number of features, which can be used individually or composed together in a public or hybrid cloud fashion. As illustrated hereafter, the Azure services catalog comprises compute, data, and application capabilities/augmentations for web sites, mobile back-ends, media streaming, SQL/ NoSQL databases, caching, etc. which can be directly consumed and integrated in your solutions regardless where they reside.
For more information about Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), see the series of papers available at http://aka.ms/aadpapers. As such, this document describes all the steps that pertains to the Moodle + Office 365 solution, including:
Note For additional information, see the document Office 365 Plugins for Moodle17. Important note The procedures, command lines etc. suggested in this context are provided as is for test purposes only and are devoted to an ad hoc test lab environment. Prior testing, adaption, and validation are required before any use in a production environment. Every steps are explained so that Moodle with Office 365 projects can be more easily completed, and consequently enabling teachers and students to realize the full potential of this integration. The document concludes by illustrating the user experience for teachers and students.
It doesn’t provide neither guidance for setting up and configuring the solution in a production environment – beyond highlighting key technical aspects - nor a complete technical reference for these platforms. See the documentation that relates to each platform for any further information. 3.Organization of this paperTo cover the above objectives, this document is organized around the key milestones for the Moodle + Office 365 solution, each of them being addressed in the following sections:
4.About the audienceThis document is thus intended for system architects and IT professionals who are interested in understanding the Moodle with Office 365 integration. Building a test lab environmentA challenge in creating a useful test lab environment is to enable its reusability and extensibility. Because creating a test lab can represent a significant investment of time and resources, your ability to reuse and extend the work required to create the test lab is important. An ideal test lab environment would enable you to create a basic lab configuration, save that configuration, and then build out multiple test lab scenarios in the future by starting with the base configuration. Moreover, another challenge people are usually facing with relates to the hardware configuration needed to run such a base configuration that involves several (virtual) machines. For these reasons and considering the above objectives, we have tried to streamline and to ease as much as possible the way to build a suitable test lab environment with an “on-premises” Moodle platform, to consequently reduce the number of instructions that tell you what servers to create, how to configure the operating systems and core platform services, etc. and, at the end, to reduce the overall effort that is needed for such an environment. Thus, this document will leverage the following subscriptions:
Interestingly, every Office 365 subscription has an Azure AD directory underneath, i.e. a robust identity and access management service that will be leveraged for the single sign-on (SSO) capabilities of the Moodle with Office 365 integration. Considering the above choice and elements, the test lab environment we suggest to build will be as follows: 
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