Making the Most of Moodle
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ITSC 2008 presentation for technical administrators of Moodle. Licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution United States License.
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Making the Most of Moodle
- 1. Created and displayed with open source software + Linux Making the Most of Moodle Content licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
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- 14. A brief review of Open Source and Software in General
- 18. Most software is awful .
- 19. Nothing is Free.
- 20. More minds are better than less minds.
- 21. Source Code: Human readable text files that a computer turns into software programs.
- 22. Moodle Course Management System (CMS) not to be confused with a CONTENT Management System (CMS)
- 23. Installation considerations server bandwidth backups access outside the firewall
- 24. Use teacher forums for collaboration
- 25. Embed multimedia Administration -> Filters -> Configuration Multimedia Plugins
- 26. Moodle logs /everything/ administration -> logs database
- 27. Moodle backups Administration -> Configuration -> Backup Littering the server with zip files is /not/ enough recommendation: RAID 1 + offsite storage use backups to duplicate courses!
- 28. Modules Not all are created equal usefulness (birthday notifications vs. grading) quality speed of development Compatibility Configurability Freshness Version ('ware the 1.0)
- 29. Speeding it up Find the bottleneck first Use Linux Maximize hardware add ram, gigabit NIC, hw RAID, swap, procs
- 30. Speeding it up, 2 Tune the database Eventually may need dedicated db server Services Apache PHP Check for other loads e.g. mail or spam/virus Tune Moodle Site admin -> Server -> Performance
- 31. Upgrades Consider all third party plugins Security fixes inside firewall Murphy says Use a test server make and test a backup document all actions Ask for help
- 32. RTFM, n00b
- 33. How to ask for help on a forum (and get it) Look around first! Ask for one thing at a time Details, details, details specific need versions, operating systems, logs, exact error messages environment, class size your experience level things you already tried Don't feed trolls Use the bump Report progress and success! (with details)
- 34. Greg Lund-Chaix Oregon Virtual School District Project
- 35. Any questions? Visit us at our booth! Brian Jamison [email_address] (503) 544-3558 Thank you!