Concluded the initial Moodle Pilot setup -- Moodle Theme Update

Updated Moodle Theme Header Image from img tag to div background to allow flexible width for varied by different screen resolutions. This concludes the initial implementation of Moodle Pilot.

Find any problems? Let Max know ..

Moodle: Casifed

Moodle Pilot has been CASfied with options to ldap or manual password. Modified the frontpage with two login options: Fresno State Users and Guest Users.

p.s. PHP-XML is required for enabling this feature also.

Moodle: Customized System Role

Customized a Course Manager role that adds additional privileges, i.e. managing users and enrollments. This role will be assigned to the Instructional Designers and support assistants.

Course Shell and Training Information

Course shells on the Moodle server will be available the second week of December when the PeopleSoft/Blackboard integration process begins for spring 2009.

Moodle Training

• Introduction to Moodle
  December 11th 1:00pm until 3:00pm in IT 300
  
• Open Lab
  January 15th 9:00am until 2:00pm in IT 300
  
• Individual Moodle Training is available by contacting Mary Bennett, mbennett@csufresno.edu 8-7203

Spring 2009 Moodle Pilots

Ten faculty from the following departments will be participating in the Spring 2009 Moodle Pilot:

• Literacy and Early Education
• Music
• Child, Family, and Consumer Sciences
• Finance and Business Law
• History
• Kinesiology
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Health Science
• Industrial Technology
• Kremen School of Education
  

Moodle: Pilot Setup

11/25 ~ 11/26, 2008

• Create course categories
• Test: system test
  
• Development: developmental course shells
• Pilot-2093: pilot courses for Spring 2009
pending (rb)

• Schema for Batch course, user account, and roster uploads:
  schema for users (mt):
  header: username, password, firstname, lastname, email, idnumber*
example: max,goodhuy,max,tsai,email@csufresno.edu,PSOFT ID

Validate above by the following tests:

• Create Pilot 'Instructor user accounts' in Batch process;
• create 'developmental' courses (course id = "DEVL-SUBCAT#-userid") under Devlopment category;
• create roster batch upload (create 2 test user accounts and use those two accounts to create roster data file)
  

To Do

• Both Sakai and Moodle are expected to be integrated with current Blackboard thought CAS.
• Both Sakai and Moodle are expected to be integrated with current Streaming Media System.
  

Moodle Update - 11/21/2008

• Book and Questionnaire Modules are installed and working
• Theme is installed (Fresno State localized)
• Tested export-->import using the Moodleconverter tool quizzes, presentations, links, etc. No problem being identified
• Tested batch loading the roster from the Moodle 'development' site successfully.
  

Moodle: Blackboard Course Content Converter

For converting Blackboard course content to Moodle, we have tested and are very happy with the tool created by LSU. You can find it at:

http://moodleconverter.lsu.edu/

I have contacted the development team and they are kindly to share the code; so, we will be able to host the application at Fresno State in possible Moodle future!

Moodle Pilot Server Up

The installation of Moodle pilot server has been completed and starting initial QA. It is set up with 2 servers model: Moodle application server and MySQL database server. Both are running on Redhat AS-5 using the RH versiong of Apache and Mysql. Each server is set up with 2 NIC interfaces: one for public user access and one for database access b/t the servers. More detail configuration information will be posted as soon as the initial QA has been completed.

Sneak Preview: "Pre" Pilot Sites

We have two experimental 'Pre'-pilot Moodle and Sakai Project sites set up at:

• http://moodle.pilot.csufresno.edu/moodle/
• http://sakai.pilot.csufresno.edu/

Fresno State faculty are welcome to request for test course shells for sneak preview access.

Initial Server Platform Setup

Set up the pilot server virtual instances today for Moodle and Sakai Project pilots:

• MySQL
  
• Moodle
  (reserved url) http://moodlepilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/
  
• Sakai Project
  (reserved url) http://sakaipilot.tlt.csufresno.edu/
  

Server: Dell PowerEdge 2950 / 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz, 16GB RAM
OS: VMware ESX Server, 3.5.0
Virtual Machine Instances: 5

Base System:

• MySQL Pilot
  Redhat AS5 (64bit) installed / 2vCPU / 1024MB / 32G+64G diskspace
  
  
• Moodle Pilot
  Redhat AS5 (64bit) installed / 2vCPU / 1024MB / 32G+128G diskspace
  
  
• Sakai Project Pilot
  Redhat AS5 (64bit) pending / 2vCPU / 1024MB / 32G+128G diskspace
  
  

Future of LMS Pilot

This is an unofficial worklog of Future of LMS pilot implementation at Fresno State.