[Moodle] Optimising Moodle Servers

[Donna Benjamin]

Hi Moodlers...  

The note Kevork makes here about moodle being very slow... 

If you're running moodle using the MySQL database, there are some tuning
tweaks you can do the MYSQL config which will radically improve
performance...

I have no idea how to do it, but Peter Lieverdink does, email me if this
might be helpful to you, and I'll put you in touch with Peter.

- D.

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:00 +1100, Kevork Krozian wrote:
> Hi Julian and Ros and Roland and fellow moodlers,
> 
>   One area I find hard is assessment and feedback for students. It seems moving a question up or down is very slow ( one step at a time ). I also like to give students feedback that shows if they got a question fully correct ( Green light ) or if they lost some marks ( amber light ) or if they lost all the marks ( red light ). I usually download the results to a spreadsheet, conditionally format each question with colour formatting, then save. Problem is all students see all other student results to say nothing of the time it takes me to do this for each class.
> 
>  Anyone out there including our very humble but very highly regarded Mr Moodle to give us some pointers on how to both write assessments and to give feedback more easily for the teachers who has to set all this up ?  Even the ability to import from other file types such as tab or comma delimited questions in a text file could be more flexible I feel. The teachers need to rewrite assessment tasks to get them on moodle and sometimes opt for the faster option and stick with paper as they don't want to put in the time.
>  Also one of our most eager Moodle users often uses surveymonkey.com for quick surveys rather than use moodle for the same reasons.
> 
> I must couch all this with the caveat that we are on Moodle 1.8.3 and are looking at upgrading to 2.0 very soon.
> 
> Apologies for any oversights and if I have missed anything I should know prior to posting this.
> 
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kevork Krozian
> IT Manager , Forest Hill College
> k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
> http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
> Mobile: 0419 356 034
> 
> >>> Ros Meadows <ros.meadows at gmail.com> 2/12/2008 3:31 pm >>>
> Hi Julian - You are THE MAN !! And yes, you are famous too, a simple theme of yours which I adapted for my school blew Roland away...lol, but YOU had done all the hard work - thank you
> PS I love the stuff you had setup for the Monte Staff - Montebay etc
> Cheers
> Ros M
> Bentleigh SC
> 
> Roland Gesthuizen wrote: But still .. you are The Man :-)
> 
> Please don't hesitate to cross post some of your blog links here about Moodle. I just read a couple and they make for interesting reading.
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> 2008/11/21 Julian Ridden <julian at moodleman.net>
> Hey all,
> 
> Just to clarrify, I do some work on the Moodle.org site but can't claim any credit on the whole. ;)
> 
> Just wanted to make sure you guys/gals didn't think I was THE Mr Moodle which is Martin D. I'm just the moodleman ;)
> 
> I've signed up onto the list now so look forward to getting involved with what you're doing on the list
> 
> Julian
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 21/11/2008, at 5:19 PM, "Roland Gesthuizen" <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Guess What! I am with Mr Moodle himself .. he does the work on Moodle.org and ooodles more (such as the Moodle Moots in Sydney and custom Moodle themes for schools)
> 
> I asked him if Moodle can handle parent type roles and guess what .. It can be done! Check out this blog entry that he made on his website.
>     http://www.moodleman.net/archives/281 
> Very cool! Just a matter of setting up a role and asigning it to the appropriate student (s). It can be a pain to manage .. see Moodle 2.0~
> 
> Moodle is big in NSW
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> -- 
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au 
> 
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au 
> 
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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