We have been trying to integrate Google Apps with Moodle for the past couple of weeks. With a little help from Matt Montagne on creating the keys we were on our way. We installed the blocks successfully and had no errors while setting everything up. We followed the instructions from here and everything seemed to be going okay. After enabling the API setting in Google Apps, we took a step back to see if it worked.

It seemed like the local and LDAP Moodle admins were created (they had “OK” for the Google Apps Sync block status). However, when I tried going into Google Apps it gave me a “This service cannot be accessed because your login credentials are not yet valid. Please log in and try again.”

Most of the LDAP users (students and teachers) were not even created in Google Apps and gave me a “Failed to create Google Apps account” in the Google Apps Sync block. When I run the /blocks/gdata/cron.php it gives me “Starting Moodle to Google Apps synchronization Google Apps error: Google Apps error: The server encountered the following errors processing the request: Error 1402: InvalidPassword Invalid Input: \”\” Google Apps error: Google Apps error:” over and over again.

What is odd is that random users are created in Google Apps and seem to be syncing but they are still not able to get into Google Apps. This has only been a half dozen users and the rest are not being created. The error above tells me it’s a password issue but I am not sure what to change.

We are kind of in a waiting mode right now to see if it just needs time. However, this past weekend Google Apps announced they have created an LDAP plugin. We may have to look into getting LDAP to work that way but we would really like to have the SSO.