[Server-devel] regarding Moodle

Luuk Terbeek terbeek.luuk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 11:18:56 EST 2010


Dear Martin en Tim,

Thanks for your quick response.

In fact at this moment I'm a little bit confused.
As far as I know Moodle will run offline on a Linux (school) server.
So when you've this server it must be no problem to contact to this server
with a client computer and have access to the Moodle installation on that
server without any Internet access (but making use of your LAN settings,
Local-Area-Network).

But know it becomes interesting, what if your client computer is an XO with
linux & sugar on it?
Will it still be no problem to access your offline Moodle installation (at
the school server)?
I think it is a problem at this moment, Martin you wrote earlier that some
serious programming must be done to let this work, am I right?

I asked this question because I doubt if my earlier questions where clear
enough.

Tim, the content of OleNepal is meanly flash based.
Reasons of using Moodle (wishlist) for OleNepal are:

   1. Student Management
   2. Discussion & Sharing
   3. School calender with activities
   4. Course planning
   5. Automatic enrollment

In general I think this a very interesting situation, because when we
succeed to let Moodle offline work for (in combination with) XO's with sugar
on it, we've a solution that might be interesting also for other OLPC
related situations when it comes to the wish of using Moodle aswell.

I'm an educational scientist and not really a technical guy, so I really
appreciate all your advice or any suggestions so I can help OleNepal to
write down a roadmap for the use of Moodle that make sense.

I really look forward to your response.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Luuk Terbeek
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>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim Moody <timmoody at sympatico.ca>
> Date: 2010/2/25
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] regarding Moodle
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>  To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>, terbeek.luuk at gmail.com
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> I could give 1-2 days a week to this for the foreseeable future.  I'm OK
> with php and sql and have done cms and lms in the past.  I have only worked
> minimally with moodle as a user on XS, loading 3rd party content.  If that's
> of interest I would need some more information, such as:
>
> Requirements:
>
> It looks like the first part of this conversation was off-list.  Luuk, I'm
> not sure what you mean by 'offline' - xo disconnected from xs or xs
> disconnected from internet.  Moodle has functionality to load external
> modules; what do you need beyond that?  What is the nature of the content
> and is it known to be deployable on moodle?
>
> Approach:
>
> Martin, you mentioned GSoC.  I searched the 858 projects from 2009 for ones
> you mentored.  There are two; neither relevant, so I'm not sure where your
> blueprint or any work already completed are.
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>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:21:08 +0100
>> From: Luuk Terbeek <terbeek.luuk at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] regarding Moodle
>> To: c <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
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>> Dear Matin,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick response.
>>
>> Regarding my question about the wish of OleNepal of using Moodle offline
>> in
>> combination with the following configuration:
>> Moodle is intended to be installed on school servers and be used by
>> teachers
>> and students. Moreover we would also like to have the moodle to be
>> preloaded
>> with sample contents that would be prepared by curriculum experts at OLE.
>> The school teachers and students will be allowed to add their own contents
>> though. The school server runs GNU/Linux (a Fedora based distribution) and
>> the XO also runs Linux with sugar on it.
>>
>> You write there's serious programming to do, to make this work.
>> I hope you can let me know when you expected this work is finished.
>> I try to write a roadmap regarding Moodle & OleNepal do you have advise
>> for
>> me (keeping in mind my question above?)
>>
>> I really look forward to your response, thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Luuk Terbeek
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>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:24:31 +0100
>> From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] regarding Moodle
>> To: Luuk Terbeek <terbeek.luuk at gmail.com>
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>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Luuk Terbeek <terbeek.luuk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> You write there's serious programming to do, to make this work.
>>> I hope you can let me know when you expected this work is finished.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, there is nobody working on it right now AFAIK. You can look at
>> the GSoC project in moodle.org, I co-mentored a student there (and
>> posted a good blueprint of a plan), but the job wasn't finished.
>>
>> If a capable PHP & Moodle dev is interested, I can offer mentoring.
>> Also, I will probably volunteer to mentor in the next round of GSoC,
>> and this feature is top of my list.
>>
>> Wish I had more concrete plans to offer, but OLPC is chronically
>> short-handed. Which is also an opportunity: want to see something
>> happen? Make it happen ;-)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
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>> m
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