More plugins for moodle - Respondus

I am working with a 3rd party vendor to upload some new course content.  Their contact informed today of a plugin that they use to sychronize the sharing of assessment information.  There is a moodle plugin avail from the company.  The company is respondus.com, the download link is /download/moodleserver.html.

The plugin is not in the moodle plugin directory, which makes me a little nervous, but not enough to not load the plugin for the vendor who is requesting it. 

I am learning more and more with moodle, that it does integrate with many other tools out in the educational technology universe.  I read about this, but am really now experiencing it.  When *other software products successfully integrate with moodle, it really does represent the future of software interaction and design.  Lots and lots of players all playing in the same big wide blue ocean.  The products that do the best are the ones that recognize the others, acknoweledge them and work together toward a common goal.

I downloaded the plugin and copied into the mod directory of my moodle instance and then logged in as admin and saw the familiar plugin checks screen.



 With all the familiar hallmarks of a well behaving moodle plugin:

In moodle, when I browse from Site Admin | Plugins | Plugins overview, I see the plugin installed but not enabled. The plugin is disabled and will not allow me to enable it here.


  I browsed to Site Admin | Plugins | Activity modules | Manage activities

And enabled the plugins here, by clicking the eye.
 

I think the rest of the work is on the Respondus side.  They configure Respondus to connect to moodle and to coordinate communication.