Lams 2 and Moodle can play nice…really!
I have had quite a few schools and clients of mine lameting the fact that Moodle no longer supports anything but LAMS 1.0, a now extremely outdated version. I also had accepted this as fact and had moved on. But how wrong I was!
At last weekends OLPC Techfest held at my college I randomly ran into a couple of LAMS developers. I asked them both why support had ceased and imagine my surprise when they told me it hadn’t. LAMS have continued to upgrade their activity style integration with Moodle all the way up to their current release, 2.0.4.
After this discussion I asked Jun-Dir Liew to add the latest code to the Moodle Modules and Plug-ins database for easy access for those needing it. Great news is that last night he did so and the new code is now available from Moodle.org
So if you are wanting to use LAMS with your Moodle and would like to use the latest version, then click here to download the latest LAMS activity module. You can over-write the existing module, but I would recommend you uninstall and remove the old one first and then install this new version as nearly no code from the original is present in this new release.
What is LAMS?
LAMS stands for “Learning Activity Management System” and is a Java based lessen sequencing authoring tool that is available for free as an Open Source project. Whereas Moodle is about social and self led learning (in it’s purest form), Lams is about leading students through pre-programmed sequences. This is especially useful in purely online learning environments. Tasks can be either class based of for individual students and, lie Moodle, come within a wide rang of different activities
If you want to get a quick feel for the product then click here to sign up for an online test drive.
Useful Links
- Direct Download link for the LAMS 2.0.4 Moodle Integration
- LAMS Website - A great place to get to grips with what LAMS is about
- Intro to LAMS - A website to give you a quick understanding of what the tool is
- LAMS Wiki - A great source of info, download links and install instructions for various integrations
- LAMS examples on YouTube
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I have been interested in LAMS for several years now and finally used it this past semester for a project in my classroom. I was pleased with the outcome and plan to continue working with it. My students completed the project through our Moodle site using the integration you described here.
However, anyone who reads this must understand that they must first have a LAMS site set up before they install the LAMS module for integration with Moodle.
Setting up a LAMS site is much more complicated than setting up your own Moodle site.