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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

(grin) .. I defer to the greater wisdom of Ken and Paul who correctly
pointed out that you don't actually need to trash a physical computer. In
fact, last year Ros Meadows had as much fun at our Moot building Linux
virtual machines as she had managing a Moodle sever. I'll also admit, we run
Moodle at our college on a virtual machine (small footprint Debian Linux on
Sun hardware).

Yes, with USB keys falling in price and leaping forward in capacity, they
are now a splendid option for building a VM sandpit with Virtual Box that
students can manage and take home.  :-)

Regards Roland

2009/12/28 ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com>

> 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
>
> Only
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Dr Ken Price MACS ACCE Professional Associate.
> President, TASITE
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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