[Moodle] Optimising Moodle Servers

Wed Dec 3 16:17:56 EST 2008

It never hurts to do a health check on your moodle server .. I highly
recommend using somebody like Peter from CC over to conduct a health check
and speed test. Last term he helped us get our Drupal server up and running.
If anybody is curious .. you can see a test version at

Regards Roland

2008/12/3 Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>

> 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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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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