Moodle Assistant Bot for Microsoft Teams

The Moodle Assistant Bot for Microsoft Teams helps teachers and students answer questions about their courses, assignments, grades and other information in Moodle. The bot also sends Moodle notifications to students and teachers right within Teams!

How to deploy the Moodle Assistant Bot to Azure

Step 1: Register

• Go to the Microsoft Application Registration Portal to regsiter a new app.

• Once you enter the name of the app (Eg. MoodleBot), simply click on the Generate New Password button and copy the one-time generated password.

• Once the password is generated, copy the Application ID of the app along with the generated password from above.

• Scroll down and click on Save.

Step 2: Deploy

Click on the Deploy to Azure button and fill in the following details in the form:

• Bot Application ID - The Application ID from Step 1
• Bot Application Password - Application Password from Step 1
• moodleURL - The URL of your Moodle server
• Azure Ad Application ID - The Application ID saved in the Setup page of your Office 365 Moodle Plugin
• Azure Ad Application Key - The Application Key saved in the Setup page of your Office 365 Moodle Plugin
• Azure Ad Tenant - The tenant name (xyz.onmicrosoft.com) of your Azure AD tenant

Step 3: Configure

• Once the bot is deployed, go to the Azure Portal, navigate to your bot's Resource Group and select the "Web App Bot".

• Copy the Messaging Endpoint highlighted in the Overview section (Ex: https://provisioned-bot-name.azurewebsites.net/api/messages), rename messages to webhook (Ex: https://provisioned-bot-name.azurewebsites.net/api/webook)

• Paste this endpoint to the Bot Endpoint field in the Teams Settings page of your Office 365 Moodle Plugin.

Feedback

Thoughts? Questions? Ideas? Share them with us in our Moodle+Teams Uservoice channel!

Contributing

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Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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