ITunes U Private - Authentication

We are looking for a iTunes U Authentication script that works with Moodle 2. Unfortunitly the old Moodle Block for iTunes U Authentication is not compatable with Moodle 2. (http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1582) Does anyone have any ideas.
Alternatively a iTunes U Authentication script that works with Lion Server Wikis would also be great.
Thanks for any help

The below in BOLD is what I am trying to do, but do not have an option to do. Is this something Apple must give me a role or permission to do? I am already and Administrator.. Thanks in advance!
To add content to your site you must create collections containing the course content, series information, or items you want to share with your users.
To add a collection:
Click Collections at the top of iTunes U Public Site Manager.
Click the Add button.
Choose one of the following from the pop-up menu:iTunes U Public Site Manager adds the new collection to the collections manager page.
Provider-Hosted Feed. Choose Provider-Hosted Feed to add a new collection from a feed URL hosted on your servers, type the feed URL, and then click Add. For example, http://www.example.com/rss/provider-hosted-collection.rss.
Apple-Hosted Feed. Choose Apple-Hosted Feed, if available, to add and edit a new collection from a new RSS feed hosted on Apple's servers, click Add, and then use the feed editor to add channel and item details and upload content.
Copy from Original iTunes U Site. Choose “Copy from Original iTunes U Site” to add a new collection by copying a group from your original iTunes U site, type the group URL, and then click Add. To copy a group from your original iTunes U site, navigate to the group, Control-click the group's tab, choose Copy Link, and then paste the link in the Group URL field.You must be an administrator to use "Copy from Original iTunes U Site". You cannot use "Copy from Original iTunes U Site" to add a feed course from your original iTunes U site.Once you publish your site, you can no longer use "Copy from Original iTunes U Site" to add a collection in iTunes U Public Site Manager.
If you add, remove, or hide a collection or update an iTunes U Public Site Manager page, you must publish your site for the changes to appear in iTunes U in the iTunes Store. Publishing changes can take up to 24 hours to appear in the iTunes Store.

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We are currently investigating this issue. We'll keep you posted on our findings.
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I am new to iTunes U and working to build iTunes U private site but i don't go through it.
The welcome email which i received from apple regarding our institution has link to activate site. But it is a public site manager; can you please let me know how can i access our private site management area?
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A couple of folks have asked how we got iTunes U authentication working at Lafayette. Here's a quick run down of how we did it; if you have any questions about the specifics feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].
The quest for authentication started with reading Chapters 1 and 2 of the iTunes U documentation and downloading the sample connection scripts. This yielded a few observations: 1) we could use our department's preferred programming language, Perl, to build the authentication process 2) Apple designed iTunes U's user/roles framework on the assumptions that folks would use the eduCourse specification and that the college's campus authentication system would include role and course information.
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We are looking at extending campus LDAP to include the needed information, but in the short term this allows us to manage access to iTunes U.
The biggest headache we encountered in setting up the authenication process involved time. After many trials and too many errors, we determined that our web server's clock was out of sync with Apple's by 110 seconds. Since we only had 90 seconds to authenticate, that meant that the handshake couldn't be concluded. We solved the problem by making sure our server's clock is updated hourly against an NTP time server.
The Process
1. A private/public login page was created on our secondary web server, ww2.lafayette.edu. This login page accepts the user's Network ID and password and passes those values on to a Perl script. It also includes a "public link" that goes to the same Perl script
2. The Perl script checks to see if the Network ID and password.
3. If the Network ID and password are given, the credentials are checked against the campus LDAP server using Perl's LDAP functions. If the user authenticates, then a query is run against a MySQL database to determine what access that user should be granted based on roles (Instructor, Learner, Administrator) and courses (a list of unique identifiers for courses) based on the eduCourse specification.
4. If the public link is clicked, then the user is connected directly to iTunes U with no credentials, which lands them on the public welcome page.
Useful Resources
* Flowchart of Lafayette College's iTunes U Authentication Scheme:
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/downloads/pdfs/public/LafayetteItunesAuth.pdf
* LDAP representations of eduCourse attributes and an auxiliary object class
http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseid/docs/internet2-mace-dir-courseid-educou rse-ldap-200507.html
* eduCourse Data Model
http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseid/docs/internet2-mace-dir-courseID-eduCou rse-200507.html
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