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Installations 10000 plus

2007-06-07T13:34:03Z

Mgoepel: Technische Universität (Germany) added

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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.

==Canada==

* [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). You can read their [http://www.athabascau.ca/media/index.php?id=132 press release] for more info.

==China==

* [http://english.bit.edu.cn/ Beijing Institute of Technology]

==France==

* [http://cursus.uhb.fr/ Université de Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne] - 22,000 users in 750 courses
** 7,000 different users connected every month
** 200 teachers involved
** integration with LDAP and Esup-Portail (based on uPortal) ;
** authentication via CAS

==Germany==

* [http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/ Technische Universität Berlin] - 10,400 Users in 402 courses (updated: 07.June.2007)
** After a test period, the Information System for Instructors and Students (ISIS) was launched in september 2006.

==Ireland==

* [http://www.dcu.ie Dublin City University] 18,000 users in 3,600 courses.

==Italy==

* [http://www.aulaweb.unige.it/ AulaWeb - University of Genoa] AulaWeb is an university-wide installation of Moodle, organized in virtual instances, one for each laurea degree. In March 2007, it hosts more than 78 instances used by 10.500 students.

* [http://elearning.uniroma1.it/ CITICoRD - University of Rome La Sapienza] CITICoRD hosts more than 330 courses for about 20.100 students from about 20 faculties, ranging from enginering scientific courses to literature and medicine.

==New Zealand==

*[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]

== Spain ==

*[http://aulavirtual.uji.es/ Universitat Jaume I] - 13,000 users in 600 courses.

*[http://www.upc.edu La Universitat Politecnica de Cataluña] on september 2005 started a pilot Moodle installation with 3.000 Students. On september 2006 the migration from the old campus to Moodle will be complete with more than 30.00 students [http://atenea.upc.edu El campus Atenea 4] runs Moodle 1.4.5 y an will be updated to Moodle 1.5.3 in september 2006. [http://www.upc.edu UPC] has developed several applicatons adn bridges between its own informacion systems.
** Integration with the academic management informatio system "Prisma".
** [http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle/course/view.php?id=18 Internalmail] (developed also in UPC) is used for as email internal system.
** Moodle integration with [http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu the upc library system].
** Adaptation of Moodle grades to spanish university grading system.
** And other stuff

*[http://www.urv.cat/ Universitat Rovira i Virgili] using Moodle for three academic years. At present version 1.5.4+ to be updated to 1.6.4+ in short. In march 2007, 22701 users registered and 3500 courses created aprox.
** Integration with the academic management information system
** Integration with the corporative LDAP user’s directory
** Average of 504 courses used regularly (logs at least once a week)
** Average of 3200 students login at least once a day
** Average of 7200 students login at least once a week
** 10500 users (teachers and students) accessed at least once during the last month (data from 26th march 2007)

==United Kingdom==

*[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 are in the middle on a two-year programme to build a VLE based on Moodle. At the start of 2007, the OU's Moodle database contains 200,000 users and 2,500 courses.

:"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.

: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.

: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).

*[http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ OpenLearn] The Open University's open content initiative. Website development began in May 2006 and the site was launched in October 2006, supported by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. By April 2008, 5,400 learning hours of content will be available online. Currenly (early 2007) over 10,000 unique users.

*[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.

==United States==
*[http://moodle.cpcc.edu Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) ] uses moodle for both curriculum and Corporate and Continuing Education. For curriculum it runs in parallel to Blackboard as faculty migrate to moodle over time. There are currently no plans to go moodle only, although many administrators favor this option. The server has 30,000 or so users on it, but the actual number of active users varies widely. It is used for both hybrid and full-online classes. Corporate and Continuing Education runs its own branded instance and uses only moodle for distance education. We have about 80,000 students total, covering the range from GED, adult-ed, curriculum, and other areas serviced by 7 campuses in and around Charlotte, North Carolina.

*[http://ilearn.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University (SFSU) ] uses moodle for more than three years now. We use moodle for our main campus and the College of Entended Learning (CEL). For curriculum it runs in parallel to Blackboard as faculty migrate to moodle over time. The server has about 9,000+ active users on it, and we have integrated Moodle (iLearn) with our SIMS/R system (see http://www.sfsu.edu/sims/overview.htm). We have around 28,950 students total, covering the range from undergraduate, graduate, and first professional students.

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Development:Wiki requirements

2006-09-20T10:41:26Z

Mgoepel: /* Added hint to bypass the "Course Modul is incorrect"-bug */

==Moodle wiki purpose==

To provide a way for students, teachers and other Moodle participants to create an organic, on-line document collaboratively.

==Key features==

# Pages can be created and linked using simple wiki methods.
# All Moodle text formats can be supported.
# Editing and viewing can be restricted by Moodle roles (i.e. currently: Students, Groups, Teachers).
# Images can be easily inserted into the text of a wiki.
# Attachments can be made to wiki pages.
# Must be fully compliant with Moodle backup and restore.
# Must be fully compliant with Moodle logging and activity tracking.
# Must provide a method of grading (see assignment module). Grading should be optional on a per-wiki basis.
# Allow importing of external documents to create a wiki or add to an existing one.
# Allow exporting to an external document.
# Allow refactoring/moving/deleting pages with appropriate permissions.
(from Martin's list):

==Basic Operation==
'''Create the wiki:'''- Log in/ Turn editing on/ Add and activity/ Wiki
- Fill in wiki parameters (Leave defaults and experiment later. Everything except the inital page fields can be changed.)

'''Adding pages:'''

- Edit the first (& only page)/ Type the name of the new page you want within square brackets/ Click Save. The new page link is displayed beside a question mark./ Click the question mark to open the new page for data entry.

- pages can be added from any page.
(Suggestion: On your start page, type "PageIndex" and perhaps "Site Map" and/or "Newest Pages" so that the user is alerted to these options immediately on entering the wiki. They also appear on the "Choose wiki links" drop down at the top of the wiki window.

The wiki is one of the most powerful tools within moodle and suitable for many educational & administrative functions including:

# a wonderful way to encourage students to build, debate and share a summary of their course content as they work
# a great way to deliver your school administrative manuals i.e. teachers manual; student manuals. They are searchable, interlinked automatically & able to be continuously updated showing who, when & how the updates were made.

Currently '''some wiki features do not work reliably''':
* '''search''' does not find page titles (so make sure that the page title is repeated somewhere within the page itself).
* '''export''' does not export all wiki content
* '''delete pages''' and '''strip pages''' often do not work. (the most common error message is: ''Course Module is incorrect'', which sometimes can be bypassed by using another theme. formal_white is known to cause such problems.)
* '''moodle editor does not handle hyperlinks correctly'''. i.e. All links must be manually placed within square brackets rather than embedded as HTML links.

==Design Objectives==
* The Wiki should support exactly the same text formats in Moodle core as you find everywhere else (see weblib.php for standard functions, eg format_text). ie Moodle format, HTML format, Markdown, etc. Any new formats need to go in the core so they are available everywhere, and this needs to be discussed very well. We only JUST removed the old Wiki-like format to reduce confusion with the current Wiki and I don't want more of this confusion from a rushed implementation.

* Linking should support both CamelCase and [Bracket] styles, and also automatic linking on the fly (a la Glossary).

* Upgrading from the old system to any new one should be seamless and problem-free (this includes restoring old backups from 1.4, for example).

* The idea with eWiki was to build on the work of the eWiki team in future. Unfortunately, so many hacks needed to be made to their monolithic script that this became almost impossible. I would like to see a lot of thought put into a very cleanly-designed architecture for the Wiki in future, something that is easy to extend and maintain (and also to use).

* I really like MediaWiki, as this Wiki is becoming a defacto standard (for good reason) and it would be good to be compatible in some way with it. Perhaps we can use part of it as a library for us. However, the Moodle Wiki is a COMPONENT within the larger Moodle system and has a very different focus to MediaWiki (which is designed for large standalone web sites) ... much thought should be given to making our Wiki work very closely with other modules, rather than another module that tries to do everything itself. It should do exactly what it needs to do and no more.

* Support for media in a very clean way is a must. This is probably my biggest criticism of the current eWiki version ... attaching images and video etc is really awkward and doesn't look good.

== New wiki issue list ==

# There is no userid column in the wiki_pages table (author char-string instead). Must be supported in migration too.
# There is no intro and introformat in the wiki table.
# In the upgrade from wiki to dfwiki, as there aren't userids, my wiki-pages were assigned to "guest". Once more, userid seems to be critical.
# Wikis having different wiki_entries (group or user ones) have no support in new wiki (only one simultaneous line of versions is available?) so we get a lot of duplicate version errors with data-lost of such pedagogical feature! Or am I losing anything? With only groupid and version in the UK of the table, old student wikis can fit in the new one. Once more, userid!
# Search doesn't work for diacritics. And/or match is performed with case matching (I think).
# Search seems to work against titles and contents always (no matter the checkbox was selected or no). Perhaps it's due to that usage of globals? Ah! After a second try I saw that such checkbox is to decide to show the details of the search in the body of the page. Perhaps the title should be changed to be a bit more clear? Something like "show results page" and some sort of nice help...
# The useful "What links here" block isn't available.
# Wiki backup and restore don't support individual activities!
# Wikis aren't included in the backup/restore at all!
# Blocks system. Would be difficult to migrate to core block system?
# UTF-8 migration always get teacher_main_language() and it should get page author language! If we know the author responsible for the version, we must look for their original encoding instead of using the teacher one! Similar to forum_posts (if I'm not wrong). And we should know the user: userid again! ;-)
# In the wiki_pages table there is one "dfwiki" field. Should be "wikiid". Such name doesn't sound ok. (although it's possible that migation become painful, so we can change it in the future...).
# dfwiki is inside a lot of places in code. It should go out (although it's possible that migation become painful, so we can change it in the future...).
# globals, globals, globals usage should be out. Just request parameters filtered with xxxx_param() functions.
# Attachment storage (as I've seen in the old-new migration script) seems to be a bit special with a lot of "dfwikiXXXX" dirs generated.
# The old-new migration script seems to be twice, once under the wikimigrate dir (the used one) and under the mod directory (unused?).

(List taken from Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43435&parent=205926 Wiki UTF is ready] forum posting.)

==See also==

*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=21493 Wiki development] forum discussion
*[[Dfwiki]]
[[Category:Developer]]
[[Category:Wiki]]