eFront eLearning (LMS) integration plugin

skippybosco,

I am testing amember trial with the efront plugin. It is telling me this does not work with amember trial version. Is this correct?

any workarounds?

Issue

I have an issue that has come up with the integration plugin. You have been a huge help in the past, thought I would see what you thought.

My site offers training for employees. The director at a location will go in and sign up an employee through aMember and your plugin will create the student in eFront. This seems to work fine about 90% of the time.

My issue is this. When the user signs up in aMember, they are the director. They enter the employees name, as well as other information. When they go to pay, it uses the employees name, but the credit card is typically in the name of the director.

I am having tons of failed credit card charges.

Thoughts?

Efront seems like it will be a great product to use with aMember. I have various "products" setup in aMember that are my own. Will installing Efront affect these other products?

aMember and eFront

eFront and aMember work pretty well together. The only changes you have to make in aMember is to enable the eFront plugin and then associate your products with the Course or Lesson in eFront. The plugin handles the creation of students, disabling of accounts, etc.

The only issue I have is due to a lot of customization. When a new version comes out, I follow a script to ensure everything gets back together the way I want it. Otherwise, Skippy has done a great job on the plugin.

I don't want the installation of eFront to affect my other older items in aMember. I just want to use eFront to create new items.... is this possible?

Integration

I don't think you would have any problems. If your creating new products, the integration plugin adds a new section to your existing products so that you can associate an aMember product with an eFront Course or Lesson.

If you have aMember pointing to products in other engines, you would set the eFront integration setting to none. This way eFront wouldn't be modified.

Since eFront and the plugin are free, it might be good to set everything up locally and test it. The guys at Epignosis have been really helpful in helping me through bugs I have found. Their release schedule is pretty quick and purchased development is pretty reasonable.

I believe my system is pushing their software pretty hard, but I have no complaints. There was one minor feature that their system lacked and I paid $265 for a custom component to be developed. Within 3 days it was done and ready to implement.

Excellent support from Epignosis and the community.

I just recently set up some courses on eFront and am now ready to start looking at setting up the commerce end.

Our company will be selling the courses both to individuals and to groups. I need to know if the combination of the aMember and the eFront plugin will allow me to:

1. Charge a different price per course depending on whether it is an individual or a group that is signing up (i.e. allow for a group discount)?

2. Allow a company to register all their employees and have the option to pay for everyone with one company credit card - or indicate they will send a corporate check?

I haven't tried aMember at all, so I'm wondering, when they sign up for aMember is the login automatically created for my eFront?

Thanks for any info - I am a bit confused as to how all this works right now so any help appreciated.

You should be able to do this with aMember's coupon feature also. Consider this:

• You sell a company X number of seats to your online course (even give them a volume discount if you want)
• They give you the funds up front (company check, credit card payment, etc) for the X number of seats at the agreed upon price per seat.
• You then use aMember's coupon generator to generate X number of coupons to cover the prepaid seats that give a 100% discount to the course you sold.
• The company then distributes a coupon to each employee so they can self-register and use the coupon to gain instant access to the course.

SkippyB, you are about to win me over to eFront from Moodle. The more I look at eFront the better it looks

Thanks for the information Skippybosco and Grantswaim. I'm going to give the plugin a try and see if it will do what I need it to do.

One question that I still have is does aMember assign logins for eFront - still confused as to how that process works. I guess what I need to know is how will eFront know what course to allow the people who sign up through aMember to participate in?

csf,

I have not actually performed this integration but I have followed it closely and feel qualified to answer your questions.

Basically the eFront registration is disabled. Your visitors actually register with aMember and aMember updates the eFront database with username, password, and course enrollment info. Any changes in this info in aMember is automatically pushed to eFront; however, eFront and aMember maintain seperate databases.

You typically log into aMember which logs you into both aMember and eFront automatically. When you log out of eFront you get logged out of eFront and aMember automatically.

eFront "knows" which course you have access to based on information pushed to it from aMember. You set up a subscription product in aMember that gives you access to a given course. As long as your subscription is current aMember keeps you enrolled in the course in the eFront database. When your subscription expires, aMember changes your enrollment status in the eFront database and you no longer have access to the course.

Hope that helped...

Can the aMember product be registration in eFront?

I have an aMember/eFront site and I'd like to charge for membership to the site, and then offer one course for free. I know how to create products in aMember, set the price, and link them to courses in eFront; but how do I setup a paid membership to eFront from aMember?

Has anyone done this? It doesn't seem like it should be very difficult, but I haven't figured out a way to do it. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.