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"A recent review of the University's current Learning Management System has recommended that from 2012 Macquarie University move to the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). Currently staff and students use the WebCT LMS provided by Blackboard. As this system will not be available to the University from the end of 2012 a review group was established to find a replacement."

Interesting to read of another major university that is migrating to Moodle.

The LTI Tool Provider module (lti_tool_provider) allows a Drupal site to serve as a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Tool in any Learning Management System (LMS) supporting the LTI standard. (http://developers.imsglobal.org/) Example LTI compliant LMSs are Angel, Blackboard Learn, Moodle and Sakai.

"Email alone is no longer an effective tool to reach today's students and many students rarely log into your institution's learning management system, however, they do check their phones and Facebook accounts multiple times per day. ConnectYard's QuickConnect Widget can help your institution make its learning management systems more social, interactive and engaging. QuickConnect allows any user within a course to post homework and study questions using a simple HTML badge that can be easily added to popular learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai and others. Those questions are then delivered to other class members through their favorite social networking site, mobile phone or email. Both students and instructors have the option of replying to questions via Facebook, Twitter, text message, or ema"

Reteach is open source and licensed under the GPLv3. It converts BB9 courses to Moodle 1.9 courses