Hello everybody!!

After poking around a couple of days in this wonderful forum, here comes my first post.

We're discussing the posibility of using .LRN platform for our high school, so we've made some research, tested a bit the platform, etc.

The main problem that came across was:
How it's suppose we should manage our data uploads? I'm completely sure that this huge universities are not typing classes and adding users one by one to them.
How do you, people, do this huge first uploads? Is there some .LRN functionality I'm not aware of?
Could you put me in the rigth directions?

Sorry if there are already posts about this issue. I assure you I've done research efforts first.

Thanks in advance,

Anders

Hi (and welcome) Anders.

Caroline covered two options:

1. Bulk upload using a CSV document
2. Integrating with your high school's student system (I am guessing this might be hard, but it would come with glory and it might be a service you could market if other high schools use the same system)

Here is a third:

3. Allowing self-registration with approval (this might be the easiest for you, just let people register and then approve them). Note: there is also the option of auto-approving a certain email pattern (e.g. if all your teachers have a standard email *@hacker.high.school.com)

Hi Anders,

If you don't have an IMS standard export available we usually call it a "Migration". We have lots of collective experience doing migrations. Jade has collected a bunch of resources here:

http://rubick.com:8002/openacs/acs_to_openacs.

There are a couple approaches. Solution Grove did a migration from an Access database dump of a Banner system. In that case the old system had already been taken down so we exported everything to a set of CSV's and wrote scripts to uploaded them.

The other approach, which is used when we go from an very old ACS version (3x) to the newer ones is connecting AOLServer to both the old and the new databases. For Museum of Science We connected AOLServer to get data directly from thier SQLServer membership database so the duel connection approach is definitely an option for you.

Take a read through those links and then feel free to ask some more questions.

Is there any reason not to bring records (of whatever type)directly into the postgres instance through psql, assuming the expected data structures matched? Why would you want to link two aolservers to distinct data sources? Do you need to capture something into the record only the UI generates?