eFront eLearning (LMS) integration plugin

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eFront is an open-source, easy to use and administer, eLearning (LMS) system.

It is free for both commercial and non-commercial usage under a CPAL (Common Public Attribution License) license.

Additional Information | Download eFront | Download Integration Plugin | Documentation

Similar to Moodle it is SCORM compatible and expandable via modules which are developed and supported by distributed development efforts around the world.

eFront's visually attractive css based design and usability sits atop a modern technology stack (object oriented, Ajax, etc) supporting a number of features:

• User management
  Standard and custom user roles can be used or created depending on your needs
• Lessons, courses and categories
  Organize lessons at multiple conceptual levels called categories. Bundle several lessons inside a course
• Content editors
  eFront includes a flexible visual content editor and internal support for pictures, sound, video, flash or java
• File manager & digital library
  Upload, organise, use and share files with any other system user
• Test builders
  Create tests by assembling questions from a question pool. Several types of questions can be created, used and re-used
• Scorm support
  eFront is a SCORM compatible and certified platform. SCORM content can be imported or exported from the system
• Projects
  Assign projects with deadlines to end-users and track their progress
• Surveys
  Create, share and analyze responses from people inside or outside your organization
• Reports
  Do you like high-level reports or you prefer a more detailed specific user or lesson info. Everything is included!
• Access Rules
  Restrict or guide the users through the content
• Progress tracking
  Several visual indications guide the user through the lesson and his current progress
• Communication
  Out-of-the-box eFront includes support for forum, chat, calendar, personal messages, file sharing and user-comments on topics
• Glossary
  All glossary items are silently merged with the real content
• Certifications
  Build and issue your own certifications
• Customization & usability
  Drag and drop components, select a new theme or the active components for your lesson. eFront is an elegant and flexible solution that does not look outdated
• Search
  Search for anything, anyone and anywhere inside the system
• Multilingual
  Unicode support and full language administration module. Adding a new language is easy!
• Administration
  The administrator is still a human. eFront puts the same special care on his interface as well.
• Security and access control
  Features like LDAP support or ip restriction helps building a secure and open system
• Modular
  Want more? eFront can be expanded using small, or not that small, functional components called Modules!

aMember integration automates user/product management and provides single sign on.

Utilizing eFront's API this integration plugin allows you to associate a eFront lesson or course to an aMember product, automating the registration and de-registration based on the the product state (active or not). Integration also includes single sign on support.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

change log:
2.0 06/01/10 - improved error handling, selectable expire action, curl instead of fopen
1.0 01/25/10 - support for eFront 3.6
.9.8 01/17/10 - deactivate users from lesson/course without losing history
.9.6 10/31/09 - introduced optional latency setting
.9.5 07/06/09 - resolved issue where url did not include user type when course was assigned.
.9.4 05/24/09 - resolved SSO users not being logged out, using native API, added "user to group" functionality, improved performance and various bug fixes (requires eFront 3.5.3)
.9.3 02/11/09 - Small update for single signon when using a certain version of PHP with aMember on one domain and eFront on subdomain.
.9.2 02/10/09 - Updated non-critical issue with certain PHP versions that returns non-parseable XML
.9 02/09/09 - Updated to include multi-lesson/course selection, updated docs for logout and username starting with numbers.
.8.2 12/23/08 - Updated to fix "remove from" issue introduced by eFront 3.52
.8 10/22/08 - Fix bug with handling of duplicate IDs, No longer list Lessons that are Course only, fixed issue with mixed case naming of the plugin.
.7 10/08/08 - Fixed bug with single signon that was introduced with .6
.6 10/01/08 - Updated to allow selection of course or lesson on a product by product basis
.5: 09/29/08 - Updated to support courses (patched API), single sign on support
.1: 09/01/08 - Plugin Creation