Sentral appears to be an SAAS provider/host for an open source Learning Management System (LMS) called Moodle. Canvas is another open source LMS. In theory both support the Learning Tools Interoperability standard, so the same integration implementation should work for both (and potentially other systems that also support LTI).
There are however lots of different ways an integration can be written within the LTI framework, depending exactly on what kinds of integration we would want.
One thing I'd think would be useful in all cases, is a Single Sign On (SSO) integration, meaning teachers can use their existing Moodle/Canvas logins and from there just click a link to come to iUgo and be automatically logged in to the correct iUgo account (without having to have a separate iUgo password).
Beyond that, off the top of my head, these are some things I think we can do:
- Pull students from the LMS into iUgo
- Allow an iUgo plan to be linked to specific LMS content (i.e. put a link to an iUgo plan inside a course module)
- Allow Teachables/Filebox content to be linked to LMS content
- Surface reports inside the LMS
There is a lot of flexibility in what we implement as to whether data flows from the LMS to us, or from us to the LMS or syncs both ways.
For calendar integration, there are a different set of APIs that govern how timetabling systems can integrate. Edval uses one called LISS, but it seems there are other standards in place that other systems use.
This summarises the list of software being used in a NSW school (23 Oct 19)
