https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DanMoodleDocs - User contributions [en]2026-05-12T18:45:15ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.5https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6907Guest role2006-03-09T10:29:02Z<p>Dan: </p>
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<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
For a given course, the teacher can choose whether or not to allow guests in.<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
They '''cannot''':<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit [[wiki]] pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
* Submit assignments<br />
* Contribute glossary entries or comments<br />
* View [[SCORM]] content (because progress is tracked)<br />
<br />
This feature can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.<br />
<br />
==Self-enrolment==<br />
<br />
Sometimes you may wish to allow people to have a more interactive engagement with a course without you having to enrol them in advance. In this case you can enable "self-enrolment" for your course. This allows anyone with a user account on your Moodle server to become a student on your course. As with guest access, you can use the '''enrolment key''' to limit this only to people to whom you have given the key.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6906Guest role2006-03-09T10:27:44Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
For a given course, the teacher can choose whether or not to allow guests in.<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
They '''cannot''':<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit wiki pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
* Submit assignments<br />
* Contribute glossary entries or comments<br />
* View [[SCORM]] content (because progress is tracked)<br />
<br />
This feature can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.<br />
<br />
==Self-enrolment==<br />
<br />
Sometimes you may wish to allow people to have a more interactive engagement with a course without you having to enrol them in advance. In this case you can enable "self-enrolment" for your course. This allows anyone with a user account on your Moodle server to become a student on your course. As with guest access, you can use the '''enrolment key''' to limit this only to people to whom you have given the key.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6905Guest role2006-03-09T10:24:52Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
For a given course, the teacher can choose whether or not to allow guests in.<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
They '''cannot''':<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit wiki pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
* Submit assignments<br />
* Contribute glossary entries or comments<br />
* View SCORM content<br />
<br />
This feature can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.<br />
<br />
==Self-enrolment==<br />
<br />
Sometimes you may wish to allow people to have a more interactive engagement with a course without you having to enrol them in advance. In this case you can enable "self-enrolment" for your course. This allows anyone with a user account on your Moodle server to become a student on your course. As with guest access, you can use the '''enrolment key''' to limit this only to people to whom you have given the key.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Course_settings&diff=6904Course settings2006-03-09T10:23:15Z<p>Dan: /* Guest access */</p>
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<div>{{Help files}}<br />
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==Category==<br />
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Your Moodle administrator may have set up several course categories.<br />
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For example, "Science", "Humanities", "Public Health" etc<br />
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Choose the one most applicable for your course. This choice will affect where your course is displayed on the course listing and may make it easier for students to find your course.<br />
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==Full name==<br />
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The full name of the course is displayed at the top of the screen and in the course listings.<br />
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==Short name==<br />
<br />
Many institutions have a shorthand way of referring to a course, such as BP102 or COMMS. Even you don't already have such a name for your course, make one up here. It will be used in several places where the long name isn't appropriate (such us in the subject line of email).<br />
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==ID number==<br />
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The ID number of a course is only used when matching this course against external systems - it is never displayed within Moodle. If you have an official code name for this course then use it here ... otherwise you can leave it blank.<br />
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==Summary==<br />
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The summary of the course is displayed in the course listings.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
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A Moodle course may use one of the following three formats:<br />
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'''Weekly format'''<br />
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The course is organised week by week, with a clear start date and a finish date. Each week consists of activities. Some of them, like journals, may have "open windows" of, say, two weeks after which they become unavailable.<br />
<br />
'''Topics format'''<br />
<br />
Very similar to the weekly format, except that each "week" is called a topic. A "topic" is not restricted to any time limit. You don't need to specify any dates.<br />
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'''Social format'''<br />
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This format is oriented around one main forum, the Social forum, which appears listed on the main page. It is useful for situations that are more freeform. They may not even be courses. For example, it could be used as a departmental notice board.<br />
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==Course start date==<br />
<br />
This is where you specify the starting time of the course (in your own timezone).<br />
<br />
If you are using a 'weekly' course format, this will affect the display of the weeks. The first week will start on the date you set here.<br />
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This setting will not affect courses using the 'social' or 'topics' formats.<br />
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However, one place this setting will be affect is the display of logs, which use this date as the earliest possible date you can display.<br />
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In general, if your course does have a real starting date then it makes sense to set this date to that, no matter what course formats you are using.<br />
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==Enrolment duration==<br />
<br />
This setting specifies the number of days a student can be enrolled in this course (starting from the moment they enroll).<br />
<br />
If this is set, then students are automatically unenrolled after the specified time has elapsed. This is most useful for rolling courses without a specific start or end time.<br />
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If you don't set this then the student will remain in this course until they are manually unenrolled or the clean-up function to remove defunct students takes effect.<br />
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If you have selected to manage this course as a meta course, your enrolment period will not be used.<br />
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==Number of weeks/topics==<br />
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This setting is only used by the 'weekly' and 'topics' course formats.<br />
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In the 'weekly' format, it specifies the number of weeks that the course will run for, starting from the course starting date.<br />
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In the 'topics' format, it specifies the number of topics in the course.<br />
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Both of these translate to the number of "boxes" down the middle of the course page.<br />
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==Group mode==<br />
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Here you can define the group mode at the course level. This will be the default group mode for all activities defined within that course. (Learn more about [[working with groups]])<br />
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==Force==<br />
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If the group mode is "forced" at a course-level, then this particular group mode will be applied to every activity in that course. Individual group settings in each activity are then ignored.<br />
<br />
This is useful when, for example, one wants to set up a course for a number of completely separate cohorts.<br />
<br />
==Availability==<br />
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This option allows you to "hide" your course completely. It will not appear on any course listings, except to teachers of the course and administrators. Even if students try to access the course URL directly, they will not be allowed to enter.<br />
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==Enrolment key==<br />
<br />
A course enrolment key enables access to courses to be restricted to those who know the key.<br />
<br />
If left blank, then anyone who has created a Moodle username on the site will be able to enrol in the course.<br />
<br />
If a key is specified, then students who are trying to enter will be asked to supply the key. Once enrolled, Students are not required to enter an enrollment key to gain access.<br />
<br />
The idea is that Teachers supply the key to authorised people using another means like private email, snail mail, on the phone or even verbally in a face to face class.<br />
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If this password "gets out" and you have unwanted people enrolling, you can unenrol them (see their user profile page) and change this key. Any legitimate students who have already enrolled will not be affected, but the unwanted people won't be able to get back in.<br />
<br />
==Guest access==<br />
<br />
You have the choice of allowing [[Guest access | "guests"]] into your course.<br />
<br />
People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen.<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
This can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.<br />
<br />
==Cost==<br />
<br />
Course cost. This will be shown if you have selected another enrolment method except internal.<br />
<br />
==Hidden sections==<br />
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This option allows you to decide how the hidden sections in your course are displayed to students.<br />
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By default, a small area is shown (in collapsed form, usually gray) to indicate where the hidden section is, though they still can not actually see the hidden activities and texts. This is particularly useful in the Weekly format, so that non-class weeks are clear.<br />
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If you choose, these can be completely hidden, so that students don't even know sections of the course are hidden.<br />
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==News items to show==<br />
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A special forum called "News" appears in the "weekly" and "topics" course formats. It's a good place to post notices for all students to see. (By default, all students are subscribed to this forum, and will receive your notices by email.)<br />
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This setting determines how many recent items appear on your course home page, in a news box down the right-hand side.<br />
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If you set it to "0 news items" then the news box won't even appear.<br />
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==Show grades==<br />
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Many of the activities allow grades to be set.<br />
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By default, the results of all grades within the course can be seen in the Grades page, available from the main course page.<br />
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If a teacher is not interested in using grades in a course, or just wants to hide grades from students, then they can disable the display of grades in the Course Settings. This does not prevent individual activities from using or setting grades, it just disables the results being displayed to students.<br />
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==Show activity reports==<br />
<br />
Activity reports are available for each participant that show their activity in the current course. As well as listings of their contributions, these reports include detailed access logs.<br />
<br />
Teachers always have access to these reports, using the button visible on each persons's profile page.<br />
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Student access to their own reports is controlled by the teacher via a course setting. For some courses these reports can be a useful tool for a student to reflect on their involvement and appearance within the online environment, but for some courses this may not be necessary.<br />
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Another reason for turning it off is that the report can place a bit of load on the server while being generated. For large or long classes it may be more efficient to keep it off.<br />
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==Maximum upload size==<br />
<br />
This setting defines the largest size of file that can be uploaded by students in this course, limited by the site wide setting created by the administrator.<br />
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It is possible to further restrict this size through settings within each activity module.<br />
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==Your word for Teacher/Teachers/Student/Students==<br />
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You can change the words for teacher and student for a particular course.<br />
<br />
==Force language==<br />
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If you force a language in a course, the interface of Moodle in this course will be in this particular language, even if a student has selected a different preferred language in his/her personal profile.<br />
<br />
==Is this a meta course?==<br />
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[[Metacourses]] are courses which take their enrolments from courses i.e. for every course 'enrolled' on the metacourse, all students in the course are enrolled in the metacourse.<br />
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{{Course admin}}<br />
[[Category:Teacher|Course/edit]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6903Guest role2006-03-09T10:22:40Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". Teachers can choose whether or not to allow "guests" into their course.<br />
<br />
People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
They '''cannot''':<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit wiki pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
* Submit assignments<br />
* Contribute glossary entries or comments<br />
* View SCORM content<br />
<br />
This can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.<br />
<br />
==Self-enrolment==<br />
<br />
Sometimes you may wish to allow people to have a more interactive engagement with a course without you having to enrol them in advance. In this case you can enable "self-enrolment" for your course. This allows anyone with a user account on your Moodle server to become a student on your course. As with guest access, you can use the '''enrolment key''' to limit this only to people to whom you have given the key.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6902Guest role2006-03-09T10:19:40Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". Teachers can choose whether or not to allow "guests" into their course.<br />
<br />
People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
They '''cannot''':<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit wiki pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
* Submit assignments<br />
* Contribute glossary entries or comments<br />
* View SCORM content<br />
<br />
This can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6901Guest role2006-03-09T10:17:44Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". Teachers can choose whether or not to allow "guests" into their course.<br />
<br />
People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.<br />
<br />
They '''cannot''':<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit wiki pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
<br />
This can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Guest_role&diff=6900Guest role2006-03-09T10:17:26Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". Teachers can choose whether or not to allow "guests" into their course.<br />
<br />
People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)<br />
<br />
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students. They cannot:<br />
<br />
* Post discussion messages<br />
* Edit wiki pages<br />
* Take quizzes<br />
<br />
This can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.<br />
<br />
Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Case_for_Moodle&diff=6879Case for Moodle2006-03-08T13:33:20Z<p>Dan: /* Security */</p>
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<div>{{About Moodle}}<br />
== High availability ==<br />
<br />
''The LMS must be robust enough to serve the diverse needs of thousands of learners, administrators, content builders and instructors simultaneously.''<br />
<br />
Usage patterns will vary strongly with the specific context of the deployment. But in general, Moodle presents a high-availability web-based interface, allowing learners, tutors, and administrators routinely to log in and carry out their daily taks. See the ''scalability'' section for other relevant information.<br />
<br />
== Scalability ==<br />
<br />
''The infrastructure should be able to expand or scale to meet future growth, both in terms of the volume of instruction and the size of the student body.''<br />
<br />
Moodle runs on a wide variety of webservers/database technologies. As with any installation of a server-based software system, it is crucial to refine carefully the choice of hardware, operating system, and database system, to ensure that the system can cope with a high throughput. The largest live Moodle installation at time of writing (Open Polytechnic of New Zealand) handles 45,000+ students and 6,500+ courses registered. There is a page about other [[Large installations|large installations]].<br />
<br />
The consensus in the Moodle community seems to be that a Linux-based webserver running Apache, with PHP installed as well as a PHP accelerator, is commonly the best choice, and that the webserver and database server should sit on separate machines.<br />
<br />
It should be possible to load-balance a Moodle installation, for example by using more than one webserver if necessary. The separate webservers should query the same database and refer to the same filestore area, but otherwise the separation of the application layers is complete enough to make this kind of clustering feasible. Similarly, the database could be a cluster of servers (e.g. a MySQL cluster).<br />
<br />
All this implies that Moodle's architecture makes it easy to respond to future demand, by adapting the technologies upon which it runs. This should be possible even in a live setting, to improve the service without major disruption.<br />
<br />
== Usability ==<br />
<br />
''To support a host of automated and personalized services, such as self-paced and role-specific learning, the access, delivery and presentation of material must be easy-to-use and highly intuitive — like surfing on the Web or shopping on Amazon.com.''<br />
<br />
Perhaps the best sentence to short Moodle usability is: "simple and powerful".<br />
<br />
There is some talk about [[Usability|Moodle usability]].<br />
<br />
The [[Interface guidelines]] aim to help developers work towards a highly usable system. And the general consensus is that Moodle excels in this area.<br />
<br />
== Interoperability ==<br />
<br />
''To support content from different sources and multiple vendors' hardware/software solutions, the LMS should exchange data using open industry standards for Web deployments.''<br />
<br />
* For '''authentication''', Moodle supports authenticating against LDAP, which is the most widely-used standard protocol for this purpose. It also supports authentication based on direct database lookup (e.g. in an external Oracle database), or on the Shibboleth protocol, or alternatively using IMAP, NNTP, CAS or FirstClass.<br />
* For '''enrolment''', Moodle supports the use of an LDAP server (e.g. Active Directory), and the IMS Enterprise standard (via a downloadable plugin).<br />
* For '''content''', there are a number of aspects:<br />
** Moodle supports the import/export of Reusable Learning Objects packaged according to the SCORM / IMS Content Packaging standards.<br />
** Quiz questions can be exported in the international standard IMS QTI 2 format.<br />
** RSS newsfeeds can be integrated into a Moodle site or course.<br />
** Forum discussions can be accessed as RSS newsfeeds, and therefore integrated into other RSS-capable websites or systems.<br />
<br />
The use of XML for import/export is standard in Moodle. The "web services" method of exchanging data with other systems (e.g. via SOAP or XML-RPC) is not yet standard - but is in active development.<br />
<br />
== Stability ==<br />
<br />
''The LMS infrastructure can reliably and effectively manage a large enterprise implementation running 24x7.''<br />
<br />
This is the same issue as discussed in ''Availability'' and ''Scalability'' above.<br />
<br />
== Security ==<br />
<br />
''As with any outward-facing collaborative solution, the LMS can selectively limit and control access to online content, resources and back-end functions, both internally and externally, for its diverse user community.''<br />
<br />
Moodle's current system of roles includes administrators, teachers, teachers without editing privileges (sometimes called teaching assistants), students, and guests. Each has a clearly defined set of privileges and cannot act beyond those privileges.<br />
<br />
The basic unit of organisation is the ''course''. An administrator can assign any number of teachers (with or without rights to edit content) to a given course, which has its own file area as well as its own discussions forums and other activities. Teachers can decide whether content is visible or hidden to students.<br />
<br />
Moodle is designed and audited to be secure for its purpose. A security issues/announcements site exists at http://security.moodle.org<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
*[[Decision FAQ|FAQ for people deciding on whether to install Moodle]]<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33200 Building the case for Moodle Document] forum discussion<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=35845 Why switch to Moodle when the university already supports BlackCT] forum discussion<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
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[[es:A favor de Moodle]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Case_for_Moodle&diff=6878Case for Moodle2006-03-08T13:05:47Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{About Moodle}}<br />
== High availability ==<br />
<br />
''The LMS must be robust enough to serve the diverse needs of thousands of learners, administrators, content builders and instructors simultaneously.''<br />
<br />
Usage patterns will vary strongly with the specific context of the deployment. But in general, Moodle presents a high-availability web-based interface, allowing learners, tutors, and administrators routinely to log in and carry out their daily taks. See the ''scalability'' section for other relevant information.<br />
<br />
== Scalability ==<br />
<br />
''The infrastructure should be able to expand or scale to meet future growth, both in terms of the volume of instruction and the size of the student body.''<br />
<br />
Moodle runs on a wide variety of webservers/database technologies. As with any installation of a server-based software system, it is crucial to refine carefully the choice of hardware, operating system, and database system, to ensure that the system can cope with a high throughput. The largest live Moodle installation at time of writing (Open Polytechnic of New Zealand) handles 45,000+ students and 6,500+ courses registered. There is a page about other [[Large installations|large installations]].<br />
<br />
The consensus in the Moodle community seems to be that a Linux-based webserver running Apache, with PHP installed as well as a PHP accelerator, is commonly the best choice, and that the webserver and database server should sit on separate machines.<br />
<br />
It should be possible to load-balance a Moodle installation, for example by using more than one webserver if necessary. The separate webservers should query the same database and refer to the same filestore area, but otherwise the separation of the application layers is complete enough to make this kind of clustering feasible. Similarly, the database could be a cluster of servers (e.g. a MySQL cluster).<br />
<br />
All this implies that Moodle's architecture makes it easy to respond to future demand, by adapting the technologies upon which it runs. This should be possible even in a live setting, to improve the service without major disruption.<br />
<br />
== Usability ==<br />
<br />
''To support a host of automated and personalized services, such as self-paced and role-specific learning, the access, delivery and presentation of material must be easy-to-use and highly intuitive — like surfing on the Web or shopping on Amazon.com.''<br />
<br />
Perhaps the best sentence to short Moodle usability is: "simple and powerful".<br />
<br />
There is some talk about [[Usability|Moodle usability]].<br />
<br />
The [[Interface guidelines]] aim to help developers work towards a highly usable system. And the general consensus is that Moodle excels in this area.<br />
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== Interoperability ==<br />
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''To support content from different sources and multiple vendors' hardware/software solutions, the LMS should exchange data using open industry standards for Web deployments.''<br />
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* For '''authentication''', Moodle supports authenticating against LDAP, which is the most widely-used standard protocol for this purpose. It also supports authentication based on direct database lookup (e.g. in an external Oracle database), or on the Shibboleth protocol, or alternatively using IMAP, NNTP, CAS or FirstClass.<br />
* For '''enrolment''', Moodle supports the use of an LDAP server (e.g. Active Directory), and the IMS Enterprise standard (via a downloadable plugin).<br />
* For '''content''', there are a number of aspects:<br />
** Moodle supports the import/export of Reusable Learning Objects packaged according to the SCORM / IMS Content Packaging standards.<br />
** Quiz questions can be exported in the international standard IMS QTI 2 format.<br />
** RSS newsfeeds can be integrated into a Moodle site or course.<br />
** Forum discussions can be accessed as RSS newsfeeds, and therefore integrated into other RSS-capable websites or systems.<br />
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The use of XML for import/export is standard in Moodle. The "web services" method of exchanging data with other systems (e.g. via SOAP or XML-RPC) is not yet standard - but is in active development.<br />
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== Stability ==<br />
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''The LMS infrastructure can reliably and effectively manage a large enterprise implementation running 24x7.''<br />
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This is the same issue as discussed in ''Availability'' and ''Scalability'' above.<br />
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== Security ==<br />
<br />
''As with any outward-facing collaborative solution, the LMS can selectively limit and control access to online content, resources and back-end functions, both internally and externally, for its diverse user community.''<br />
<br />
Moodle's current system of roles includes administrators, teachers, teachers without editing privileges (sometimes called teaching assistants), students, and guests. Each has a clearly defined set of privileges and cannot act beyond those privileges.<br />
<br />
The basic unit of organisation is the ''course''. An administrator can assign any number of teachers (with or without rights to edit content) to a given course, which has its own file area as well as its own discussions forums and other activities. Teachers can decide whether content is visible or hidden to students.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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*[[Decision FAQ|FAQ for people deciding on whether to install Moodle]]<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33200 Building the case for Moodle Document] forum discussion<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=35845 Why switch to Moodle when the university already supports BlackCT] forum discussion<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
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[[es:A favor de Moodle]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_10000_plus&diff=6788Installations 10000 plus2006-03-04T14:21:19Z<p>Dan: </p>
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Please add your school info here, if you have a Moodle installation catering (or expecting to cater) for 10,000 or more users.<br />
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==Canada==<br />
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*[http://www.athabascau.ca/ Athabasca University] - Canada's leading distance-education and online university: Canada's Open University, serving about 30,000 students per year. Athabasca has decided to adopt Moodle as a single platform instead of WebCT Vista (i.e. the top of the line version). Source: [https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=NZOSVLE%20Project%20Updates NZVLE website]<br />
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==China==<br />
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* [http://english.bit.edu.cn/ Beijing Institute of Technology]<br />
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==New Zealand==<br />
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*[http://campus.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/ The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand] - 35,000+ students, 6,500+ courses, single sign-on for library services using Ezy Proxy, single sign-on for webmail, using SquirrelMail, uses LDAP for interface with Sears Student Management System. Comments by [https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=Comments%20by%20Ken%20Udas%2C%20Director%20of%20eLearning%20at%20the%20Open%20Polytechnic Ken Udas, Director of eLearning at the Open Polytechnic]<br />
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==United Kingdom==<br />
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*[http://www.open.ac.uk The Open University (OU)] - the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. They have around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. They recently announced their adoption of Moodle:<br />
<br />
:"Now, The Open University’s Learning and Teaching Office has started a new programme worth nearly £5 million to build a comprehensive online student learning environment for the 21st century. <br />
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:The development, which will first appear in May of 2006, and be fully operational for February 2007 courses, will see the largest use of Moodle in the world. Moodle is a free, Open Source software package course management system used by educators to create effective online learning communities.<br />
<br />
:Currently Open University students use a variety of software in a network to access their course work, interact with tutors and other students, use the library, submit assignments and handle administrative paperwork. The new development incorporating Moodle will ensure the network is much more user-friendly and uniform." Source: [http://www3.open.ac.uk/events/7/2005118_40887_nr.doc OU press release] (.doc format).<br />
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*[http://www.gla.ac.uk/ The University of Glasgow] - A long-established (founded 1451) and high-profile research university in the UK, with 20,000 students (16,000 undergrad, 4,000 postgrad), 6,000 staff, 12,000 unique users of Moodle (as of Dec 2005). Uses LDAP for integration with Novell and a custom MIS system for user authentication.<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=IMS_content_package&diff=6787IMS content package2006-03-04T14:12:55Z<p>Dan: /* See also */</p>
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<div>{{Moodle 1.6}}<br />
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IMS is a body which helps define technical standards for various things, including e-learning material. The [http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/ IMS Content Packaging specification] makes it possible to store chunks of material in a standard format which can be re-used in different systems, without having to convert the material into new formats.<br />
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Forthcoming in Moodle 1.6 is the ability to incorporate and deploy such "content packages" as easily as you might incorporate any other file.<br />
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==See also==<br />
<br />
* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=31011 New resource type: IMS CP] forum discussion<br />
* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36273 New resource type: Object repository] forum discussion<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
[[Category:Developer]]<br />
[[Category:Resource]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=IMS_resource_type&diff=6786IMS resource type2006-03-04T14:07:35Z<p>Dan: Redirect to "IMS content package"</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[IMS content package]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6672Jmol filter2006-02-28T21:56:39Z<p>Dan: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Jmol-quiz-example.png|thumb|200px|right|An example of the Jmol filter in action]]<br />
<br />
Jmol is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* '''[http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]''''<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Forums | Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quizzes| Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6671Jmol filter2006-02-28T21:55:21Z<p>Dan: Turned pic into thumbnail</p>
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<div>[[Image:Jmol-quiz-example.png|thumb|200px|right|An example of the Jmol filter in action]]<br />
<br />
[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Forums | Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quizzes| Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=File:Jmol-quiz-example.png&diff=6670File:Jmol-quiz-example.png2006-02-28T21:54:51Z<p>Dan: An example of the Jmol filter in action, used to embed 3D molecular viewers into quiz questions.</p>
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<div>An example of the [[Jmol filter]] in action, used to embed 3D molecular viewers into quiz questions.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Performance_recommendations&diff=6571Performance recommendations2006-02-26T20:03:09Z<p>Dan: Added some advice mentioned by Rory Allford</p>
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<div>Moodle can be made to perform very well, at small usage levels or scaling up to many thousands of users. The factors involved in performance are basically the same as for any PHP-based database-driven system, and Moodle's design (with clear separation of application layers) allows for strongly scalable setups. See [[Large installations]] for some large Moodle installations.<br />
<br />
Large sites usually separate the web server and database onto separate servers, although for smaller installations this is typically not necessary.<br />
<br />
It is possible to load-balance a Moodle installation, for example by using more than one webserver. The separate webservers should query the same database and refer to the same filestore area, but otherwise the separation of the application layers is complete enough to make this kind of clustering feasible. Similarly, the database could be a cluster of servers (e.g. a MySQL cluster).<br />
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==Web server performance==<br />
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* The amount of '''RAM''' on your web server is the strongest factor in performance - get as much as possible (eg 4GB).<br />
* Linux or Unix is the recommended '''operating system''' for the server. They perform much better than Mac OSX or Windows servers at high loads.<br />
* You are strongly recommended to use a '''PHP accelerator''' to ease CPU load, such as [http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/ Turck MMCache] or PHPA.<br />
* Performance of PHP is better when installed as an Apache module (rather than a CGI).<br />
* On a Unix/Linux system, performance can be greatly improved by allowing the webserver to use the system '''zip/unzip''' commands (rather than PHP-based zip libraries) - visit Admin/Configure/Variables and enter the path to the relevant executables. (Similarly, filling in the path to '''du''' will improve Moodle's speed at listing directory contents.)<br />
* Note that using '''secure web connections''' ('''https''' rather than '''http''') carries a higher processing burden, both for the webserver and the client - particularly because cacheing cannot be used as effectively, so the number of file requests is likely to increase dramatically. For this reason using https for all Moodle pages is not recommended. You can enable https just for the login screen, simply from Moodle's config page.<br />
* You can increase performance by using the light-weight webserver [http://www.lighttpd.org/ lighttpd] in combination with PHP in fastCGI-mode instead of Apache, due to much lower memory consumption. One single apache process requires more RAM than the whole lighttpd with all of its fastCGI-processes together. Note that this may not be a good solution if you can afford lots of hardware power, because administration takes a little more time.<br />
* Consider lowering MaxRequestsPerChild in httpd.conf to as low as 20-30 (if you set it any lower the overhead of forking begins to outweigh the benefits). Also check the memory_limit in php.ini, reduce it to at least 16M. ([http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=39656 Suggested by Rory Allford])<br />
<br />
==Database performance==<br />
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* [[Arguments in favour of PostgreSQL]]<br />
* [[Increasing the database connection lifetime]]<br />
* [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-parameters.html Tuning MySQL parameters] (advice from the MySQL manual)<br />
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==Performance of different Moodle modules==<br />
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Moodle's activity modules, filters, and other plugins can be activated/deactivated. If necessary, you may wish to deactivate some features (such as chat) if not required - but this isn't necessary. Some notes on the performance of certain modules:<br />
<br />
* The '''Chat''' module is [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=37979&parent=175079 said] to be a hog in terms of frequent HTTP requests to the main server. This can be improved if you're using a Unix-based webserver by running the chat in daemon mode.<br />
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25616&parent=120770 Brief report on performance for 55 students simultaneously using '''Quiz''']<br />
* The Moodle '''cron''' task is triggered by calling the script ''cron.php''. If this is called over HTTP (e.g. using wget or curl) it can take a large amount of memory on large installations. If it is called by directly invoking the php command (e.g. ''php -f /path/to/moodle/directory/admin/cron.php'') efficiency can be much improved.<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=94 Servers and Performance] moodle.org forum<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
[[Category:Performance]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6519Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:35:58Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Forums | Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quizzes| Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
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[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6512Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:14:30Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol Moodle filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Forums | Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quizzes| Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6511Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:12:22Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol Moodle filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Category:Forum | Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quizzes| Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
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[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6510Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:11:22Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol Moodle filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Category:Forum] Forum] discussion, or a [[Quizzes] Quiz] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
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[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6509Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:10:53Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol Moodle filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Category:Forum Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quizzes Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
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<br />
[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6508Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:09:21Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol Moodle filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [[Label]], a [[Forum]] discussion, or a [[Quiz]] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [[Jmol resource module]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Jmol_filter&diff=6507Jmol filter2006-02-25T17:08:51Z<p>Dan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[http://jmol.sourceforge.net Jmol] is open-source Java software for interactive 3D viewing of molecular structures. It can easily be embedded into a webpage... including a Moodle page.<br />
<br />
The Moodle Jmol Moodle filter is recently developed but comes as a single download and is easy to use and install.<br />
<br />
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/filter_jmol.zip Download the Jmol filter]<br />
<br />
The Jmol filter is very useful for including a molecule viewer in a variety of situations - e.g. in a [Label], a [Forum] discussion, or a [Quiz] question. If you wish to load a molecule data file as a "resource", you should also consider installing the [Jmol resource module].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://moodle.org/file.php/5/moddata/forum/323/170717/jmol-quiz-example.png<br />
<br />
It requires no additional capability on your web server, but is a Java applet, added to the page with JavaScript controls, so requires both Java and a JavaScript-enabled browser for the user.<br />
<br />
* [http://moodle.yeovil.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=63 See it in action in this course] (Log in as guest)<br />
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[[Category:Filter]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=User:Dan&diff=4939User:Dan2006-02-07T14:34:26Z<p>Dan: </p>
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<div>Please see my personal CV:<br />
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::[http://mcld.co.uk/cv/quick/ Dan Stowell's CV]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Template:Large_Installations&diff=4830Template:Large Installations2006-02-06T14:02:23Z<p>Dan: </p>
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::[[Installations 1000 plus]] - [[Installations 5000 plus]] - [[Installations 10000 plus]]<br />
<small>(''These lists are in the early stages of being compiled. Watch them grow in the near future!'')</small><br />
|}</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Template:Large_Installations&diff=4829Template:Large Installations2006-02-06T14:00:06Z<p>Dan: </p>
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::[[Installations 1000 plus]] - [[Installations 5000 plus]] - [[Installations 10000 plus]]<br />
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|(''These lists are just beginning to be compiled. Watch them grow in the near future!'')<br />
|}</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4828Installations 1000 plus2006-02-06T13:51:38Z<p>Dan: added goldsmiths</p>
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==Finland==<br />
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*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
==United Kingdom==<br />
<br />
*The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.<br />
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* [http://learn.gold.ac.uk Goldsmiths College, London] - over 2500 active users. See also this [http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/timetable/abstract.php?abstract_id=270 presentation at a 2004 conference].<br />
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* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College], UK - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]<br />
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==Netherlands==<br />
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* We are a 5000 people school, one server, 9 locations and using Moodle for almost three years now: https://studiewijzerplus.nl Every schoolyear we start again with counting the number of users and the automatic counter (thanks Penny!) is now pointing at 3103<br />
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==USA==<br />
<br />
* Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA 6,000+ 300 courses this term (FALL-2005) Using Moodle on single-server for 1-1/2 years We just discovered we only had 512 MB RAM installed, never even suspected because performance never suffered.<br />
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<div>== Large Moodle installations listing ==<br />
<br />
This page was started on Wednesday 14th December 2005 at 1900GMT. <br />
There are MANY more schools to add, it's just begun!<br />
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*[[Installations 1000 plus]]<br />
*[[Installations 5000 plus]]<br />
*[[Installations 10000 plus]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/choice/view.php?id=3934 How big is your Moodle site?] choice activity<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36216 Chart of schools (by size) that are using Moodle] forum discussion<br />
*[http://www.frappr.com/moodle World map of Moodle users]<br />
*[http://moodle.org/stats/ Moodle statistics]<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4821Installations 1000 plus2006-02-06T12:40:57Z<p>Dan: </p>
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==Finland==<br />
<br />
*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
==United Kingdom==<br />
<br />
*The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.<br />
<br />
* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College], UK - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
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1. We are a 5000 people school, one server, 9 locations and using Moodle for almost three years now: https://studiewijzerplus.nl Every schoolyear we start again with counting the number of users and the automatic counter (thanks Penny!) is now pointing at 3103<br />
<br />
2. Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA 6,000+ 300 courses this term (FALL-2005) Using Moodle on single-server for 1-1/2 years We just discovered we only had 512 MB RAM installed, never even suspected because performance never suffered.<br />
<br />
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Please add your school info here, if you have a Moodle installation catering (or expecting to cater) for 10,000 or more users.<br />
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==[http://campus.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/ The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand]==<br />
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* 35,000+ students<br />
* 6,500+ courses<br />
* Single sign-on for library services using Ezy Proxy<br />
* Single sign-on for webmail, using SquirrelMail<br />
* Uses LDAP for interface with Sears Student Management System<br />
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[https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=Comments%20by%20Ken%20Udas%2C%20Director%20of%20eLearning%20at%20the%20Open%20Polytechnic Comments by Ken Udas, Director of eLearning at the Open Polytechnic]<br />
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==Athabasca University==<br />
Athabasca University is Canada's leading distance-education and online university: Canada's Open University, serving about 30,000 students per year. Athabasca has decided to adopt Moodle as a single platform instead of WebCT Vista (i.e. the top of the line version).<br />
''[https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=NZOSVLE%20Project%20Updates Source: NZVLE website]''<br />
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==The Open University (OU)==<br />
<br />
The OU is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. They have around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students.<br />
<br />
They are currently looking at building their first, large scale Virtual Learning Environment and are considering Moodle as a core element. The project team at the Open University has recognised the scalability work on Moodle undertaken by the NZOSVLE project team. In the spirit of open source we're sharing information on how we've approached scalability issues.<br />
''[https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=NZOSVLE%20Project%20Updates Source: NZVLE website]''<br />
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<div>Please add your school info here, if you have a Moodle installation catering (or expecting to cater) for 10,000 or more users.<br />
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{{Template:Large Installations}}<br />
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==[http://campus.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/ The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand]==<br />
<br />
* 35,000+ students<br />
* 6,500+ courses<br />
* Single sign-on for library services using Ezy Proxy<br />
* Single sign-on for webmail, using SquirrelMail<br />
* Uses LDAP for interface with Sears Student Management System<br />
<br />
[https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=Comments%20by%20Ken%20Udas%2C%20Director%20of%20eLearning%20at%20the%20Open%20Polytechnic Comments by Ken Udas, Director of eLearning at the Open Polytechnic]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Athabasca University==<br />
Athabasca University is Canada's leading distance-education and online university: Canada's Open University, serving about 30,000 students per year. Athabasca has decided to adopt Moodle as a single platform instead of WebCT Vista (i.e. the top of the line version).<br />
''[https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=NZOSVLE%20Project%20Updates Source: NZVLE website]''<br />
<br />
<br />
==The Open University (OU)==<br />
<br />
The OU is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. They have around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students.<br />
<br />
They are currently looking at building their first, large scale Virtual Learning Environment and are considering Moodle as a core element. The project team at the Open University has recognised the scalability work on Moodle undertaken by the NZOSVLE project team. In the spirit of open source we're sharing information on how we've approached scalability issues.<br />
''[https://eduforge.org/wiki/wiki/nzvle/wiki?pagename=NZOSVLE%20Project%20Updates Source: NZVLE website]''<br />
<br />
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{{Template:Large Installations}}</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_5000_plus&diff=4816Installations 5000 plus2006-02-06T12:37:32Z<p>Dan: added template item</p>
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<div>1. We are a 5000 people school, one server, 9 locations and using Moodle for almost three years now: https://studiewijzerplus.nl Every schoolyear we start again with counting the number of users and the automatic counter (thanks Penny!) is now pointing at 3103<br />
<br />
2. Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA 6,000+ 300 courses this term (FALL-2005) Using Moodle on single-server for 1-1/2 years We just discovered we only had 512 MB RAM installed, never even suspected because performance never suffered.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Template:Large Installations}}</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4815Installations 1000 plus2006-02-06T12:37:19Z<p>Dan: added template item</p>
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<div>==Finland==<br />
<br />
*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
==United Kingdom==<br />
<br />
*The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.<br />
<br />
* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College], UK - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
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{{Template:Large Installations}}</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Template:Large_Installations&diff=4814Template:Large Installations2006-02-06T12:36:58Z<p>Dan: </p>
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::[[Installations 1000 plus]] - [[Installations 5000 plus]] - [[Installations 10000 plus]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Large_installations&diff=4813Large installations2006-02-06T12:35:52Z<p>Dan: Added template item</p>
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<div>== Large Moodle installations listing ==<br />
<br />
This page was started on Wednesday 14th December 2005 at 1900GMT. <br />
There are MANY more schools to add, it's just begun!<br />
<br />
*[[Installations 1000 plus]]<br />
*[[Installations 5000 plus]]<br />
*[[Installations 10000 plus]]<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/choice/view.php?id=3934 How big is your Moodle site?] choice activity<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=36216 Chart of schools (by size) that are using Moodle] forum discussion<br />
*[http://www.frappr.com/moodle World map of Moodle users]<br />
*[http://moodle.org/stats/ Moodle statistics]<br />
<br />
{{Template:Large Installations}}<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Template:Large_Installations&diff=4812Template:Large Installations2006-02-06T12:34:38Z<p>Dan: </p>
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<div>[[Installations 1000 plus]] - [[Installations 5000 plus]] - [[Installations 10000 plus]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4811Installations 1000 plus2006-02-06T12:32:32Z<p>Dan: Added breakdown by country</p>
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<div>==Finland==<br />
<br />
*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
==United Kingdom==<br />
<br />
*The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.<br />
<br />
* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College], UK - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Administrator]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4810Installations 1000 plus2006-02-06T12:31:14Z<p>Dan: </p>
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<div>*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
*The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.<br />
<br />
* [http://www.thanet.ac.uk/ Thanet College], UK - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Administrator]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4809Installations 1000 plus2006-02-06T12:30:45Z<p>Dan: Added Thanet</p>
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<div>*Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
*Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
*The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.<br />
<br />
* Thanet College, UK - a "medium sized general FE college", using Moodle as documented in [http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=13423 this Ferl case study]<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Performance_recommendations&diff=4405Performance recommendations2006-02-01T09:35:04Z<p>Dan: /* Web server performance */ A little bit more proof-reading...</p>
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<div>Moodle can be made to perform very well, at small usage levels or scaling up to many thousands of users. The factors involved in performance are basically the same as for any PHP-based database-driven system, and Moodle's design (with clear separation of application layers) allows for strongly scalable setups. See [[Large installations]] for some large Moodle installations.<br />
<br />
Large sites usually separate the web server and database onto separate servers, although for smaller installations this is typically not necessary.<br />
<br />
It is possible to load-balance a Moodle installation, for example by using more than one webserver. The separate webservers should query the same database and refer to the same filestore area, but otherwise the separation of the application layers is complete enough to make this kind of clustering feasible. Similarly, the database could be a cluster of servers (e.g. a MySQL cluster).<br />
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==Web server performance==<br />
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* The amount of '''RAM''' on your web server is the strongest factor in performance - get as much as possible (eg 4GB).<br />
* Linux or Unix is the recommended '''operating system''' for the server. They perform much better than Mac OSX or Windows servers at high loads.<br />
* You are strongly recommended to use a '''PHP accelerator''' to ease CPU load, such as [http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/ Turck MMCache] or PHPA.<br />
* Performance of PHP is better when installed as an Apache module (rather than a CGI).<br />
* On a Unix/Linux system, performance can be greatly improved by allowing the webserver to use the system '''zip/unzip''' commands (rather than PHP-based zip libraries) - visit Admin/Configure/Variables and enter the path to the relevant executables. (Similarly, filling in the path to '''du''' will improve Moodle's speed at listing directory contents.)<br />
* Note that using '''secure web connections''' ('''https''' rather than '''http''') carries a higher processing burden, both for the webserver and the client - particularly because cacheing cannot be used as effectively, so the number of file requests is likely to increase dramatically. For this reason using https for all Moodle pages is not recommended. You can enable https just for the login screen, simply from Moodle's config page.<br />
* You can increase performance by using the light-weight webserver [http://www.lighttpd.org/ lighttpd] in combination with PHP in fastCGI-mode instead of Apache, due to much lower memory consumption. One single apache process requires more RAM than the whole lighttpd with all of its fastCGI-processes together. Note that this may not be a good solution if you can afford lots of hardware power, because administration takes a little more time.<br />
<br />
==Database performance==<br />
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* [[Arguments in favour of PostgreSQL]]<br />
* [[Increasing the database connection lifetime]]<br />
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==Performance of different Moodle modules==<br />
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Moodle's activity modules, filters, and other plugins can be activated/deactivated. If necessary, you may wish to deactivate some features (such as chat) if not required - but this isn't necessary. Some notes on the performance of certain modules:<br />
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* The '''Chat''' module is [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=37979&parent=175079 said] to be a hog in terms of frequent HTTP requests to the main server. This can be improved if you're using a Unix-based webserver by running the chat in daemon mode.<br />
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25616&parent=120770 Brief report on performance for 55 students simultaneously using '''Quiz''']<br />
* The Moodle '''cron''' task is triggered by calling the script ''cron.php''. If this is called over HTTP (e.g. using wget or curl) it can take a large amount of memory on large installations. If it is called by directly invoking the php command (e.g. ''php -f /path/to/moodle/directory/admin/cron.php'') efficiency can be much improved.<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=94 Servers and Performance] moodle.org forum<br />
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[[Category:Administrator]]<br />
[[Category:Performance]]</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4344Installations 1000 plus2006-01-30T10:46:00Z<p>Dan: </p>
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<div>Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
The [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Installations_1000_plus&diff=4343Installations 1000 plus2006-01-30T10:45:49Z<p>Dan: Added Glasgow</p>
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<div>Tampere Polytechnic or Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu ([http://www.tamk.fi www.tamk.fi]), is a around 5000 student college or "a university of applied sciences" located at Tampere, Finland. Our moodle installation hosts around 2500 active students.<br />
<br />
Lahti Polytechnic or Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu is also a "university of applied sciences", located at Lahti, Finland. We have about 5400 students, and a Moodle installation called [http://reppu.lamk.fi Reppu] (Finnish word for "backpack"). We are approaching the 5000 active users mark.<br />
<br />
The [http://www.gla.ac.uk | University of Glasgow ] has a range of Moodle installations in use, totalling to around 5000 users according to [http://www.gla.ac.uk/guide/workapex.htm | published data]. Their Education Department alone has more than 2000 registered users.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Category:FAQ&diff=4277Category:FAQ2006-01-29T10:48:08Z<p>Dan: /* What do you need to run moodle? */</p>
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<div>Frequently asked questions and answers about '''Moodle'''.<br />
<br />
==What is moodle?==<br />
Check out the About Moodle page at https://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle<br />
<br />
==What do you need to run moodle?==<br />
If you want to try Moodle out, you can easily [[Windows installation | install it on a standard Windows computer]] on your desktop (or a Mac).<br />
<br />
If you want to run a stable Moodle service for (e.g.) a school or college, you should really invest in a dedicated server (typically a Linux computer). Moodle runs on a variety of platforms, the most preferred being Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP (also known as LAMP for the acronym). Please read the [[Installing Moodle | installation guide]] for more specifics.<br />
<br />
==I don't understand this LAMP thingee... how can I use moodle?==<br />
Any organization with more than a few computers likely has a Technology person who understands this. If you are not running a large operation, many website providers include an optional moodle install on their site. Usually this comes with a package called Fantastico - so if you're site provide includes Fantastico you can probably install moodle. Contact them for more information. You can even run moodle off a laptop, but then it would be hard for all your students to get to anything you built with it. It really needs to run as part of a website.<br />
<br />
==Is moodle complicated?==<br />
Moodle is very powerful, and with power comes complexity. However, it is designed to be easy for teachers to use, and for technicians to install, and for administrators to manage. There are however a lot of options and settings, but getting started is easy if you're not afraid to explore on your own, or if you get some training from a moodle partner or someone who knows moodle well. <br />
<br />
==Is moodle for teachers or administrators?==<br />
Moodle is a Learning/Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS) which helps individual, groups, schools, institutions, business, and even boards of education and school districts manage courses for anyone involved in teaching. These course can be from 5 minutes to 5 years, from 1 person to 500 (or more!), and for everyone from first-graders to senior-citizens. The tools built into moodle are appropriate for everything from social groups to professional development to traditional students in class.<br />
<br />
==Why would a school trust their enterprise work to a free software package?==<br />
You might not know it, but almost 70% of the world's websites run on Apache, which is a free webserver. That's SEVENTY out of one hundred. Moodle is open-source, and while this FAQ is not the appropriate place to discuss open-source software, a quick google search on the viability of open-source products should provide ample material. Other great examples of widely-used open-source software include Linux, Sendmail, and numerous other packages that you probably use daily that you don't even know about.<br />
<br />
==How can moodle be free?==<br />
Moodle.org, the organization responsible for improving moodle, is supported by donations, by consulting generated by clients who need specific enhancements and are willing to pay for them, and by dividends paid by moodle partners. <br />
<br />
==What's a moodle partner?==<br />
Moodle partners are companies around the world that have been certified by moodle to deliver high-quality moodle services to customers that use moodle. You can read up on and see a list of them at http://www.moodle.com (note this is .com, and not .org)<br />
<br />
==How many people are using moodle?==<br />
Because moodle is free, there is no simple way to count it's "customers" since anyone can use it any time with no record. The statistics from users and installations that have registered are linked to from the main page of moodle.org and show over 7000 worldwide installations as of the end of 2005. Worldwide users are in the millions. Countries are at about 140. There are a number of [[Large installations | large installations]] of Moodle which cater for thousands of users each.<br />
<br />
==How do we know moodle will still be in business in the future?==<br />
If you note the installed base- that is the number of organizations and people using moodle, and note that all the software is open, you'll realize that even if the supporting organization were to drop off the earth, others would quickly network and step in to continue improvement of the product. There are already numerous partners around the world who make their living off helping clients with moodle and improving the product and contributing to the community. One coming or going does not have a tremendous impact on the product as a whole, and it's openness assures that people will always be able to access, modify, and support the code - at least for as long as people are teaching with technology.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Category:FAQ&diff=4276Category:FAQ2006-01-29T10:45:44Z<p>Dan: /* What do you need to run moodle? */</p>
<hr />
<div>Frequently asked questions and answers about '''Moodle'''.<br />
<br />
==What is moodle?==<br />
Check out the About Moodle page at https://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle<br />
<br />
==What do you need to run moodle?==<br />
If you want to try Moodle out, you can easily [[Windows installation | install it on a standard Windows computer]] on your desktop.<br />
<br />
If you want to run a stable Moodle service for (e.g.) a school or college, you should really invest in a dedicated server (typically a Linux computer). Moodle runs on a variety of platforms, the most preferred being Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP (also known as LAMP for the acronym). Please read the [[Installing Moodle | installation guide]] for more specifics.<br />
<br />
==I don't understand this LAMP thingee... how can I use moodle?==<br />
Any organization with more than a few computers likely has a Technology person who understands this. If you are not running a large operation, many website providers include an optional moodle install on their site. Usually this comes with a package called Fantastico - so if you're site provide includes Fantastico you can probably install moodle. Contact them for more information. You can even run moodle off a laptop, but then it would be hard for all your students to get to anything you built with it. It really needs to run as part of a website.<br />
<br />
==Is moodle complicated?==<br />
Moodle is very powerful, and with power comes complexity. However, it is designed to be easy for teachers to use, and for technicians to install, and for administrators to manage. There are however a lot of options and settings, but getting started is easy if you're not afraid to explore on your own, or if you get some training from a moodle partner or someone who knows moodle well. <br />
<br />
==Is moodle for teachers or administrators?==<br />
Moodle is a Learning/Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS) which helps individual, groups, schools, institutions, business, and even boards of education and school districts manage courses for anyone involved in teaching. These course can be from 5 minutes to 5 years, from 1 person to 500 (or more!), and for everyone from first-graders to senior-citizens. The tools built into moodle are appropriate for everything from social groups to professional development to traditional students in class.<br />
<br />
==Why would a school trust their enterprise work to a free software package?==<br />
You might not know it, but almost 70% of the world's websites run on Apache, which is a free webserver. That's SEVENTY out of one hundred. Moodle is open-source, and while this FAQ is not the appropriate place to discuss open-source software, a quick google search on the viability of open-source products should provide ample material. Other great examples of widely-used open-source software include Linux, Sendmail, and numerous other packages that you probably use daily that you don't even know about.<br />
<br />
==How can moodle be free?==<br />
Moodle.org, the organization responsible for improving moodle, is supported by donations, by consulting generated by clients who need specific enhancements and are willing to pay for them, and by dividends paid by moodle partners. <br />
<br />
==What's a moodle partner?==<br />
Moodle partners are companies around the world that have been certified by moodle to deliver high-quality moodle services to customers that use moodle. You can read up on and see a list of them at http://www.moodle.com (note this is .com, and not .org)<br />
<br />
==How many people are using moodle?==<br />
Because moodle is free, there is no simple way to count it's "customers" since anyone can use it any time with no record. The statistics from users and installations that have registered are linked to from the main page of moodle.org and show over 7000 worldwide installations as of the end of 2005. Worldwide users are in the millions. Countries are at about 140. There are a number of [[Large installations | large installations]] of Moodle which cater for thousands of users each.<br />
<br />
==How do we know moodle will still be in business in the future?==<br />
If you note the installed base- that is the number of organizations and people using moodle, and note that all the software is open, you'll realize that even if the supporting organization were to drop off the earth, others would quickly network and step in to continue improvement of the product. There are already numerous partners around the world who make their living off helping clients with moodle and improving the product and contributing to the community. One coming or going does not have a tremendous impact on the product as a whole, and it's openness assures that people will always be able to access, modify, and support the code - at least for as long as people are teaching with technology.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Category:FAQ&diff=4275Category:FAQ2006-01-29T10:41:22Z<p>Dan: /* What do you need to run moodle? */</p>
<hr />
<div>Frequently asked questions and answers about '''Moodle'''.<br />
<br />
==What is moodle?==<br />
Check out the About Moodle page at https://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle<br />
<br />
==What do you need to run moodle?==<br />
If you want to try Moodle out, you can easily install it on a standard Windows or Mac computer on your desktop.<br />
<br />
If you want to run a stable Moodle service for (e.g.) a school or college, you should really invest in a dedicated server (typically a Linux computer). Moodle runs on a variety of platforms, the most preferred being Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP (also known as LAMP for the acronym). Please read the installation guidelines FAQ for more specifics.<br />
<br />
==I don't understand this LAMP thingee... how can I use moodle?==<br />
Any organization with more than a few computers likely has a Technology person who understands this. If you are not running a large operation, many website providers include an optional moodle install on their site. Usually this comes with a package called Fantastico - so if you're site provide includes Fantastico you can probably install moodle. Contact them for more information. You can even run moodle off a laptop, but then it would be hard for all your students to get to anything you built with it. It really needs to run as part of a website.<br />
<br />
==Is moodle complicated?==<br />
Moodle is very powerful, and with power comes complexity. However, it is designed to be easy for teachers to use, and for technicians to install, and for administrators to manage. There are however a lot of options and settings, but getting started is easy if you're not afraid to explore on your own, or if you get some training from a moodle partner or someone who knows moodle well. <br />
<br />
==Is moodle for teachers or administrators?==<br />
Moodle is a Learning/Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS) which helps individual, groups, schools, institutions, business, and even boards of education and school districts manage courses for anyone involved in teaching. These course can be from 5 minutes to 5 years, from 1 person to 500 (or more!), and for everyone from first-graders to senior-citizens. The tools built into moodle are appropriate for everything from social groups to professional development to traditional students in class.<br />
<br />
==Why would a school trust their enterprise work to a free software package?==<br />
You might not know it, but almost 70% of the world's websites run on Apache, which is a free webserver. That's SEVENTY out of one hundred. Moodle is open-source, and while this FAQ is not the appropriate place to discuss open-source software, a quick google search on the viability of open-source products should provide ample material. Other great examples of widely-used open-source software include Linux, Sendmail, and numerous other packages that you probably use daily that you don't even know about.<br />
<br />
==How can moodle be free?==<br />
Moodle.org, the organization responsible for improving moodle, is supported by donations, by consulting generated by clients who need specific enhancements and are willing to pay for them, and by dividends paid by moodle partners. <br />
<br />
==What's a moodle partner?==<br />
Moodle partners are companies around the world that have been certified by moodle to deliver high-quality moodle services to customers that use moodle. You can read up on and see a list of them at http://www.moodle.com (note this is .com, and not .org)<br />
<br />
==How many people are using moodle?==<br />
Because moodle is free, there is no simple way to count it's "customers" since anyone can use it any time with no record. The statistics from users and installations that have registered are linked to from the main page of moodle.org and show over 7000 worldwide installations as of the end of 2005. Worldwide users are in the millions. Countries are at about 140. There are a number of [[Large installations | large installations]] of Moodle which cater for thousands of users each.<br />
<br />
==How do we know moodle will still be in business in the future?==<br />
If you note the installed base- that is the number of organizations and people using moodle, and note that all the software is open, you'll realize that even if the supporting organization were to drop off the earth, others would quickly network and step in to continue improvement of the product. There are already numerous partners around the world who make their living off helping clients with moodle and improving the product and contributing to the community. One coming or going does not have a tremendous impact on the product as a whole, and it's openness assures that people will always be able to access, modify, and support the code - at least for as long as people are teaching with technology.</div>Danhttps://docs.moodle.org/32/en/index.php?title=Category:FAQ&diff=4270Category:FAQ2006-01-29T10:37:48Z<p>Dan: Slight reformatting - headings instead of bullets</p>
<hr />
<div>Frequently asked questions and answers about '''Moodle'''.<br />
<br />
==What is moodle?==<br />
Check out the About Moodle page at https://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle<br />
<br />
==What do you need to run moodle?==<br />
Moodle runs on a variety of platforms, the most preferred being Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP (also known as LAMP for the acronym). Please read the installation guidelines FAQ for more specifics. <br />
<br />
==I don't understand this LAMP thingee... how can I use moodle?==<br />
Any organization with more than a few computers likely has a Technology person who understands this. If you are not running a large operation, many website providers include an optional moodle install on their site. Usually this comes with a package called Fantastico - so if you're site provide includes Fantastico you can probably install moodle. Contact them for more information. You can even run moodle off a laptop, but then it would be hard for all your students to get to anything you built with it. It really needs to run as part of a website.<br />
<br />
==Is moodle complicated?==<br />
Moodle is very powerful, and with power comes complexity. However, it is designed to be easy for teachers to use, and for technicians to install, and for administrators to manage. There are however a lot of options and settings, but getting started is easy if you're not afraid to explore on your own, or if you get some training from a moodle partner or someone who knows moodle well. <br />
<br />
==Is moodle for teachers or administrators?==<br />
Moodle is a Learning/Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS) which helps individual, groups, schools, institutions, business, and even boards of education and school districts manage courses for anyone involved in teaching. These course can be from 5 minutes to 5 years, from 1 person to 500 (or more!), and for everyone from first-graders to senior-citizens. The tools built into moodle are appropriate for everything from social groups to professional development to traditional students in class.<br />
<br />
==Why would a school trust their enterprise work to a free software package?==<br />
You might not know it, but almost 70% of the world's websites run on Apache, which is a free webserver. That's SEVENTY out of one hundred. Moodle is open-source, and while this FAQ is not the appropriate place to discuss open-source software, a quick google search on the viability of open-source products should provide ample material. Other great examples of widely-used open-source software include Linux, Sendmail, and numerous other packages that you probably use daily that you don't even know about.<br />
<br />
==How can moodle be free?==<br />
Moodle.org, the organization responsible for improving moodle, is supported by donations, by consulting generated by clients who need specific enhancements and are willing to pay for them, and by dividends paid by moodle partners. <br />
<br />
==What's a moodle partner?==<br />
Moodle partners are companies around the world that have been certified by moodle to deliver high-quality moodle services to customers that use moodle. You can read up on and see a list of them at http://www.moodle.com (note this is .com, and not .org)<br />
<br />
==How many people are using moodle?==<br />
Because moodle is free, there is no simple way to count it's "customers" since anyone can use it any time with no record. The statistics from users and installations that have registered are linked to from the main page of moodle.org and show over 7000 worldwide installations as of the end of 2005. Worldwide users are in the millions. Countries are at about 140. There are a number of [[Large installations | large installations]] of Moodle which cater for thousands of users each.<br />
<br />
==How do we know moodle will still be in business in the future?==<br />
If you note the installed base- that is the number of organizations and people using moodle, and note that all the software is open, you'll realize that even if the supporting organization were to drop off the earth, others would quickly network and step in to continue improvement of the product. There are already numerous partners around the world who make their living off helping clients with moodle and improving the product and contributing to the community. One coming or going does not have a tremendous impact on the product as a whole, and it's openness assures that people will always be able to access, modify, and support the code - at least for as long as people are teaching with technology.</div>Dan