45 Minutes to Moodle

Submitted by platypus matt on May 30, 2006 - 12:41.

Really Linux has posted a Moodle tutorial that's supposed to have even newbie Linux users up and running Moodle in 45 minutes: This beginner article by Mark Rais provides step-by-step instructions for installing Moodle, a Learning Management System, on to a Fedora Linux server. It provides everything necessary to setup a full powered intranet web-server that can support course listings, event calendars, student/teacher communication and much more. Best of all, a prototype server can be functional within about 45 minutes. For those not in the know, Moodle is a free alternative to Blackboard or WebCT--nuff said!

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Anyone on a Moodle Campus?

Submitted by platypus matt on May 31, 2006 - 15:50.

By the way, I was wondering if anyone here is working at a campus that uses Moodle. If so, do the faculty tend to like it? I'd love to hear some lore about how this system compares to Blackbeard and WebCT.

not on a moodle campus, but . . .

Submitted by bleckb on June 1, 2006 - 11:58.

I was wondering why moodle doesn't have a wiki module available. It seems the documentation is done in a wiki, but they don't offer it as part of the package, or am I missing something?


By the way Matt, has your bank account been scoured clean yet?


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Yup, but Nope

Submitted by platypus matt on June 1, 2006 - 14:14.

It's been scoured clean all right, but not by crooks. Unless you count me as a crook. I've been broke for so long, I've forgotten what it's like to have any savings.

wiki, yes.

Submitted by scrawler on June 2, 2006 - 06:43.

You're missing something, I think. Look here:
http://moodle.org/help.php?file=mods.html
this is a page listing all of moodle's activity modules.

UIUC

Submitted by dilger on June 2, 2006 - 11:45.

Illinois has a Moodle userbase and installation. I don't know any exclusively Moodle campuses.

My experience installing Moodle was super-smooth. It took longer to get Linux installed on the castoff I was using then to actually get Moodle working.

glad to see I was wrong

Submitted by bleckb on June 5, 2006 - 13:40.

. . . and that there IS a wiki in Moodle.

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