Sync Gradebook between Moodlebox and Live site

nico

Want to use Moodlebox in an area where there is no internet connection. This will work perfectly for me. We however have a live site where all user grades are stored for record purposes. The courses on both are exactly the same.
The export Grades and Import Grades works well but is a manual exercise. I was looking to see if somebody else has had this problem and to see if a automate procedure can be run when the the Moodbox is connected to the internet and sync the grades back to central.

Any suggestion are welcome.

Ratna

nico Hi, the answer to the general question, "how to synchronize a central Moodle instance to a number of satellite Moodle instances", is No, Moodle doesn't have such a mechanism. The explanation is simple. The databases of the satellite instances grow independently of the central instance. As a result will conflict with the central database, if imported back.

That said, I see, your question is specific and limited to the grade book. There could be methods. You need to raise the question on moodle.org, where there is a dedicated forum on the topic of the grade book. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2122.

nico

Ratna Than you so much for the clear explanation and feedback. It certainly does make sense and I will go an look at your suggestion.

krause

nico
Hi Nico,

you want to have a course in your Moodle website and the same course in your MoodleBox. You will get no problem if your course on the MoodleBox uses a special activity which is only on the MoodleBox. This activity should have an end date. After this date you backup this special activity on your MoodleBox included all users and all grades. You restore it into your course in your Moodle website.

You need to be manager or admin in both platforms. All course users should be the same on both platforms with the same usernames and the same email addresses. No, the process will not run automatically.

Yes, I still have the same problem with my teachers workshops. https://machmitnetz.de/course/view.php?id=182#section-2 . When the teachers are using my MoodleBox with the iBeacons outside in the wood far away from mobile data they will find all their materials and activities on the MoodleBox. They should not use anything else from the internet and they should send their ideas and activities (assignment, feedback, choice, database, glossary) to the MoodleBox. Yes, the results are copied to a workshop course on the Moodle website https://machmitnetz.de so the teachers can see their results also when the workshop is over.

Ralf

Ratna

nico Rereading your post, I think the term "sync" sent me in a wrong direction. You deploy the course only on a single site, on MoodleBox, right? Your question is how to pull back the results in to your live site, right? I was thinking of merging grades from many courses in to one.

In the case of one-to-one transfer a full https://docs.moodle.org/en/Course_backup, including users and user data, in the MoodleBox and a similar https://docs.moodle.org/en/Course_restore in the live site will do the job. This is what @krause was saying, I believe.

With some Linux CLI know-how you can easily automate the process:

Set https://docs.moodle.org/en/Automated_course_backup on MoodleBox and let it backup to a target directory.
Write a shell script to copy (scp, rsync, ...) it over the Internet to the live site which is triggered by 'ifup' of the Ethernet interface of the MoodleBox. Assumption: The ethernet cable is connected to a router which is connected to the Intenet.
One could restore the backup with Moodle Shell https://moosh-online.com/ which is a bit demanding. If you collect the backup file in a https://docs.moodle.org/en/File_system_repository of your live site, manually restoring will be just a few clicks.

nico

HI Thanks all for the feedback and update. Perhaps I was not clear enough:
The courses on both are exactly the same.
Leaners work on both servers, however a learner will only work on and not both.
The one (MoodleBox) is considered as offsite or remote campus that does not internet access,
We need to get the results from the remote into the Main Campus server.
Export Gradebook from remote and import gradebook to main works but is cumbersome.
Looking for a automated method.

Hope this makes sense now

Ratna

nico No automation known to me.

As I said earlier https://discuss.moodlebox.net/d/258-sync-gradebook-between-moodlebox-and-live-site/2, there could be shorter work-flows. You need to raise the question on moodle.org, where there is a dedicated forum on the topic of the grade book. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2122.