[Moodle] Optimising Moodle Servers

Wed Dec 3 15:20:59 EST 2008

Donna,

Would Peter be happy to post the Howto on here?

Cheers,

Adam Barbary
Viewbank College

On 03/12/2008, at 2:51 PM, Donna Benjamin wrote:

> 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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