Category Archives: Moodle

Understanding Open Source

Posted on 05/26/2012 by William Stites

I am a big advo­cate of open source soft­ware.  We’ve used it at our school for a num­ber of years.  Our fire­wall is an appli­ance called Untan­gle. We use open source soft­ware in the class­room includ­ing tools like Open Office … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moodle and Blackboard… I’m not worried.

Posted on 03/28/2012 by William Stites

There is a lot of talk out there right now about the fact the Black­board has pur­chased both Moodle­rooms and NetSpot.  There are numer­ous blog post about it, includ­ing Remote-Learners response (Black­board Buys 2 Lead­ing Sup­port­ers of Open-Source Com­peti­tor Moo­dle - … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Interested in talking about Moodle? Moot anyone?

Posted on 11/12/2011 by William Stites

Are you inter­ested in talk­ing about Moo­dle? Would you like to come to a con­fer­ence devoted to Moo­dle? Would you be will­ing to present at a con­fer­ence devote to Moo­dle? Are you are curi­ous about how Moo­dle can be used in your school? Would you … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moodle Services Split:Part 2

Posted on 09/13/2011 by William Stites

  Our goal was to split out the Apache & PHP ser­vices from the MySQL ser­vice  run­ning on our Moo­dle server. The deci­sion to do this was to address per­for­mance issue expe­ri­ence on the open­ing day of school after upgrad­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Splitting Moodle Services to Multiple Servers

Posted on 09/09/2011 by William Stites

Early this year we moved our Moo­dle server from a Linux server to an Apple server (Mov­ing to Moo­dle 2.0:Pt. 1 — The Deci­sion) and upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1. In doing so we were con­cerned with a num­ber of  issues, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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How do I set up self enrolment in Moodle 2.0?

Posted on 06/20/2011 by William Stites

First off… I know that you spell enrol­ment with two “l’s”, but Moo­dle spells it with one. As we are begin­ning our train­ing around Moo­dle 2.0 there are some small, but impor­tant dif­fer­ences that are com­ing to light.  Depend­ing on how … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.2 The Tools and Tweaks

Posted on 06/11/2011 by William Stites

Before begin­ing any project you want to make sure you have the tools to do the job.  In the case of a Moo­dle 2.0 migra­tion you bet­ter have a really good set of tools. “Relax, all right? My old man is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.1 The Decision

Posted on 06/10/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t easy and came with a lot of inves­ti­ga­tion, thought and dis­cus­sions, but we’ve decided to make the move to Moo­dle 2.0 this sum­mer (2011). We have had a num­ber of our teach­ers, stu­dents and tech staff play­ing with Moo­dle … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Syncing LDAP (OD or AD) data within Moodle

Posted on 04/21/2011 by William Stites

So we have a Moo­dle server at our school that is con­nected to our LDAP server for user authen­ti­ca­tion.  This works great for us as it pro­vides for easy inte­gra­tion with out other sys­tems that use this form of authen­ti­ca­tion (Final­Site … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moodle: How big is big?

Posted on 04/19/2011 by William Stites

We’ve been using Moo­dle at my school for years and it’s a real work­horse for us. Moo­dle is used in class­rooms K-12, for com­mit­tees, clubs, activ­i­ties and for numer­ous other school needs. As we are pre­pare for an upgrade to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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