Migrating existing Moodle-Joomla installations

This document applies to Joomdle Release 2.0.0

Joomdle provides a tool to migrate existing Moodle/Joomla installating to work with the Joomdle Single Sign On from Joomla to Moodle system.

You can access this tool in the Joomdle Component -> Users.

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The listing shows by default all Moodle and Joomla users. This can be controled by the filter.

For each user, username, name and email are shown, along with three columns:

• Joomla account: wether the user has a Joomla a account
• Moodle account: wether the user has a Moodle a account
• Joomdle user: wether the user is configured to work with Joomdle SSO.

The options that can be applied to the elements selected from the list are:

• Add users to Joomla: create user accounts in Joomla for selected Moodle accounts.
• Add users to Moodle. create user accounts in Moodle for selected Joomla accounts.
• Migrate users to Joomdle: change Moodle authentication method to Joomdle for selected users.

For tranfering existing installations to Joomdle, the steps are:

• Create needed accounts in Joomla or Moodle
• Migrate users to Joomdle. For transfering a user to the Joomdle SSO system, he has to have accounts in both Joomla and Moodle.