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mConnect+ Introduction
mConnect was created by Skooler in cooperation with Microsoft to integrate Moodle LMS into Azure AD of Microsoft 365 Education. The advantage of this connection is that, on the one hand, it allows teachers in Microsoft 365 Education to get access to a variety of examination questions of Moodle 3.8 and, on the other hand, for teachers in Mooodle LMS, it gives a possibility to record their lectures in Microsoft Teams. These are two main advantages for both LMS. However, there are many others. One of them is that the interface of Moodle is shown in Microsoft Teams as a natural part of Teams, see pic. 1. Another advantage is shown below on an example of my class in Moodle.
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The interface of Moodle 3.8 is embedded into Teams via mConnect+
Please, notice that the main active area of Teams' interface is occupied by the interface of Moodle. Since Microsoft moved thge Class notebook, Assignments, Grades and Insights to the second left pane, one can eaisly use them directly from the main window of Tems. The camers icon allows users of Moodle easily start a video meeting.
mConnect+ Automation
These two classes were created automatically. First, Moodle's Administrators ran Moodle's Automate to create classes with students and teachers. Then Microsoft's Administrators created the identical copies of these classes in Microsoft Teams using mConnect. Therefore, mConnect is a great feature both for Microsoft 365 Education and for Moodle LMS. For Moodle, this connection means that teachers may use Teams' Calendar to schedule their lectures. Hence video recordings of these lectures are saved in the SharePoint of the class and at the same time in the Files tab of Teams in Recordings. This directory is created automatically after the first recording in this class. Visit Skooler's site to subscribe for regular webinars devoted to mConnect and its applications.
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The connector "mConnect+" has other great advantages. This program can fill all classes automatically and dynamically. This means that the teacher of any course fills it in with materials only once. The second advantage is that the surrounding of the class consisting of programs added to it via tabs, associated Power Automates, and other services such as messenger Kaizala Pro are configured only one time. As to Kaizala, the teacher just removes manually all students from it through Kaizala's web interface.
Skooler is improving this connector and in a future it wil have many other options. For instance, since the last November Skooler added a number of useful options to this program, see pic. 2.
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