FrontlineSMS And Moodle

FrontlineSMS

Source: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/frontlinesms/browser/trunk/src
HTTP Trigger plugin: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/frontlinesms/browser/trunk/src/main/java/net/frontlinesms/plugins/httptrigger
We will want to add new http triggers to frontline SMS:
- http://localhost:{port}/groups/list -- list the available groups (perhaps JSON encoded string)
- http://localhost:{port}/groups/create/{grouppath} -- creates the group {grouppath}
- http://localhost:{port}/groups/contacts/{grouppath} -- list the user in the indicated group {grouppath}
- http://localhost:{port}/contacts/add -- adds new contact to frontlineSMS with details from GET variables
- http://localhost:{port}/contacts/edit/{id} -- adds new contact to frontlineSMS with details from GET variables
- http://localhost:{port}/contacts/lookup/{phonenumber} -- returns the id, if any of a user with the matching phone number
- http://localhost:{port}/send/groupsms/{grouppath}?content={conent} -- send the indicate content to each member of the indicated group

Moodle UI to associate a course in moodle with a group in FrontlineSMS:
- groups should already be defined in frontline SMS. also have ability to create new group
- list/create groups should added by via an http trigger as indicated above

Moodle UI so a user can associate a contact.id from frontline SMS
- uses puts in their mobile number
- moodle does a lookup on frontlinesms to see if there is a contact with that number via the contracts/lookup trigger
  - if there is exactly one contact, the contact id is associated with the user profile
  - if there are no contacts, moodle will create the contact on frontlinesms via the contacts/add trigger
  - if there is more than one contact, display a drop-down list where the user can select which contact_id they should be associated to (list display name)
All posts to SMS messages are sent via FrontLine SMS's existing http trigger sms/send
Participants in a course can send a SMS to any/all other partipicpants that
Administrator in course can send a message to any/all partipants in the course

Concept: Enable announcements and participation in Moodle forums via Frontline SMS
Reference: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Forum_module
Reference: http://docs.moodle.org/en/News_forum
Teacher/administrator of a course can choose to enable SMS forwarding of messages "News Forum" to participants that have a mobile number. defaults to enabled
Teacher/administrator can mark each forum that they create as SMS-enabled or not. defaults to disabled
sending a message on a moodle forum will initiate send the message the group registered for the course via http trigger sms/sendgroup
More Specification pending for posting to a forum via FrontlineSMS.

More Specification Pending
need to add http triggers to FrontlineSMS to create/edit forms
need to modify moodle so that creating a question creates the pieces of a frontlineform for the following type of questions
need to modify moodle so that creating a quiz based on the above questions will put all the pieces of the frontline form together
need to add http trigger to FrontlineSMS to get read forms as answer to questions in a quiz for a specific user