[Moodle] Re: [Yr7-10it] Moodle moot..what it is and when?

[ken price]

Moodle will also run entirely off a USB drive or external drive, using
the MoWes application, using your normal day-to-day computer.

This lets you install Moodle with its underlying PHP, Apache and MySQL
on a USB drive (almost a one-click operation), build your Moodle
courses, develop themes, and add content. They you just take your USB
drive home and you have all your server apps, Moodle, AND your data to
play with at home, exactly the same. And you don't have to install
anything on your computer. You can even give the course (plus the
complete Moodle install) to students on a USB drive, as some of our
schools do when students don't have reliable net access at home.

Only significant problems are:- it uses the same port as Skype so you
need to disable Skype, and the speed is limited by the USB device. I
cheat and copy it all to a folder on my lappie hard drive and run it
from there, which is faster. Oh yes, and one of the members of this
community (Jason?) had a problem running it on his laptop due I think
to a firewall configuration issue, but I think he fixed that.

Cheers
Ken

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dr Paul Chandler
<paul.chandler at une.edu.au> wrote:
> Moodle will run on a "virtual machine" such as in qemu or virtual box.
>
> You don't necessarily have to trash a machine to have one which is trashable!
>
>> Covers it just nicely, we can even assemble some loan boxes if anybody
>> wants
>> to trash a computer by doing their own installation. Just doing this with
>> some friends is a great way to learn how this works, even if you have
>> access
>> to a tallented technician or have been following Kevorks PHP and MySQL
>> tutorials in his text book.
>>
>> I'll check with Phil if we can host it at Wellington SC again like last
>> year. Perhaps the last Saturday of January, thus giving time for regional
>> folk like yourself to make the trip to Melbourne and back.
>>
>> Regards Roland


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Dr Ken Price MACS ACCE Professional Associate.
President, TASITE