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the Moodle Learning Management System component of my online learning suite. One of two LMS's in my Suite

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Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
the Moodle Learning Management System component of my online learning suite. One of two LMS's in my Suite

Filename:
Moodle.zip

Size Compressed:
439

Allocated Memory:
256

Username:
root

Password:
teach

VMware Tools Installed?:
Yes

Operating System:
Open SuSE 10.1

Torrent?:
No

Applications:
Moodle version 1.5.3 from moodle.org

Description:
Moodle
A standalone Virtual Appliance and/or part of the Online Learning Appliance Suite (OLAS)
by Farren Constable, May 20, 2006
Moodle is a very popular open source Course Management System (CMS) (Sometimes referred to as a Learning Management System (LMS).) I have included both Moodle and ILIAS Virtual Appliances in my OLAS as they are both very powerful systems but they have different pedagogies. I recommend visiting both web sites to see the differences. Also, a Google search for "ILIAS Moodle Pedagogy" will yield a plethora of reading material on the subject. Here's a bit of info from the moodle.org web site:
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Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles - to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.
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While this Moodle server could very easily stand alone and be extremely useful, I consider it to be one component of my Online Learning Appliance Suite (OLAS). Please read the "Online Learning Appliance Suite info.txt" file for more information.
Full documentation, additional plugins, news, etc., is available at http://moodle.org. There is also a book about Moodle: "Using Moodle" by Jason Cole from O'Reilly Community Press which I highly recommend.
This Moodle Server is built on Open SuSE 10.1 from opensuse.org.
The Moodle product is version 1.5.3 from moodle.org.
The root password is 'teach'.
There is one user account named 'teacher' with a password of 'password'.
There is NO GUI installed for this server to keep it lean.
The network is configured to obtain a DHCP address -- easily changeable in YaST.
YaST is installed and is how I did most of the configuration of the Linux system, including Apahce.
Once the server is up, you can access the Moodle server by pointing a web browser to: http://server-ip-address/.
There is a default Moodle user account of 'admin' with a password of 'teach'.
The mySQL root password is also 'teach'.
Simply power up the VM, and once it is at a login prompt, you are ready to connect with a browser. You may need to log in a root and run the 'ifconfig' command to find out what IP address the VM was given from your DHCP server. Then, point your browser to that IP address as described above.
Enjoy!

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

Open SuSE 10.1

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 439MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 256

Applications Installed:

Moodle version 1.5.3 from moodle.org

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