Moodle for Every School
Session
Information Systems and Security
Description
Moodle is a well known and mature LMS (Learning Management System) that is used widely throughout the world. The benefits of using Moodle to support the educational process are obvious, and best of all, Moodle is free and open source. However this does not mean that using Moodle does not have any costs. These costs are mainly related to the server where Moodle is installed, but also to the IT expert that has to install and maintain it. Moodle is a fairly complex application and it needs an experienced administrator to install and manage it properly. A solution to this is to purchase online Moodle services (Software As A Service), but this also has its own costs which sometimes may be even higher that maintaining your own Moodle server. In this paper I will present and describe a set of shell scripts that facilitate the installation and maintenance of Moodle, up to the point that even novice administrators can manage it easily. However making things easy is quite difficult, so these scripts make use of cutting edge technologies in current server administration, like Docker, cloud services, etc., in order to facilitate the process. The end result is that every school or university should be able to install and use its own Moodle server quite easily, and this paper describes how.
Keywords:
Moodle, LMS, IT, Software As A System
Session Chair
Naim Preniqi
Session Co-Chair
Blerton Abazi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-54-7
Location
Durres, Albania
Start Date
28-10-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
28-10-2017 3:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.195
Recommended Citation
Hoxha, Dashamir, "Moodle for Every School" (2017). UBT International Conference. 195.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2017/all-events/195
Moodle for Every School
Durres, Albania
Moodle is a well known and mature LMS (Learning Management System) that is used widely throughout the world. The benefits of using Moodle to support the educational process are obvious, and best of all, Moodle is free and open source. However this does not mean that using Moodle does not have any costs. These costs are mainly related to the server where Moodle is installed, but also to the IT expert that has to install and maintain it. Moodle is a fairly complex application and it needs an experienced administrator to install and manage it properly. A solution to this is to purchase online Moodle services (Software As A Service), but this also has its own costs which sometimes may be even higher that maintaining your own Moodle server. In this paper I will present and describe a set of shell scripts that facilitate the installation and maintenance of Moodle, up to the point that even novice administrators can manage it easily. However making things easy is quite difficult, so these scripts make use of cutting edge technologies in current server administration, like Docker, cloud services, etc., in order to facilitate the process. The end result is that every school or university should be able to install and use its own Moodle server quite easily, and this paper describes how.