‘Hosting’ Archives
LocalHost: Installing Moodle 2.4 on Windows 7 with WampServer
I'm working on a bunch of projects at work that require I get down and dirty in Moodle: connecting to the mySQL database tables to start learning how to run queries and get at all the great data to analyze student behavior, to install new mods more quickly for testing, and a few other more minor things. In the past, I have setup Moodle sites [...]
Moodle Hosting on Amazon Cloud Services for $15/mo #Amazon #AWS
Bitnami recently released the instructions for setting up your own Moodle using Amazon Web Services, a scalable, cheap cloud hosting environment for websites and apps. If you're looking for Moodle 2.2 and want a test/dev or even a production site this might be worth looking into. Monthly hosting starts at around $15 per month for the smallest [...]
Free course hosting from Teclet.com
Teclet is a new course hosting...company?...where you can get the ability to create free classrooms (private or public) and access to various other tools (a common wiki, OUBlogs, video tutorials, etc.). The community is still very small, but if you're looking for a place to play with Moodle 1.9 or to put up a private/public course then it might [...]
Quick review of FreeMoodle.org: great for sharing and learning
FreeMoodle.org is a Partner-backed free Moodle hosting site available to teachers and student with just one catch: courses must be open. I got a chance to checkout the site and play around with some of the courses already there. I can say that HRDNZ has really set the stage for something wonderful. Already there are quite a few courses on [...]
Free Moodle hosting site Gnomio now running version 2.2
If you're interested in checking out some of the new features in 2.2 like the Rubrics and Advanced Grading, the MyMobile theme, LTI or any of the other coolness you can without any risk at Gnomio's 2.x site http://www.mdl2.com/ according to a recent tweet. MDL2 is listed on the Moodlenews hosting chart and provides free but ad-supported [...]
Introducing FreeMoodle.org: A free, Moodle Partner-backed hosting option
Great news on the free Moodle hosting front recently, HRDNZ, an official Moodle Partner in New Zealand has launched http://www.freemoodle.org/ as a free and open Moodle resource with an eye towards sharing. There are various stipulations and conditions if you upload your course on the site (which beckons back to the eSocrates.org sharing [...]
News Flash: KeytoSchool’s free Moodle hosting shuttered
A quick notification from Jai Gupta, KeytoSchool's spokesman, announced today that registration and new site creation at KeytoSchool's free Moodle hosting has been shuttered effective immediately. More bad news for KeytoSchool users is that the free hosting service will be discontinued completely on January 1st. From the announcement, It has [...]
@ColombiaMoodle: A free Spanish language Moodle course hosting/sharing site
ColombiaMoodle.com is a free hosting and course sharing site for Spanish language courses (meaning courses in Spanish about any content area, not "learn Spanish" courses) and teachers. Like many other of the free hosting resources available it's backed by a for-profit entity (http://creatic.in). According to Hemerson Carreño who contacted [...]
@eschoolnews presents a free webinar: “Best Practices for Hosting, Support and Use of Moodle in K-12 Schools” on October 5th
Eschoolnews (@eschoolnews), an online paper for the education industry is hosting a free webinar about Moodle on October 5th, 2011 at 2pm EST (the event is co-sponsored by Moodlerooms). The webinar will focus on hosting and support case scenarios and best practices. According to the event announcement, The Moodle learning management system [...]
Back to School: Get a classroom (free hosting, self-hosted or commercial vendors)
It’s Back to School 2011! We’ll be running back to school focused posts throughout the week of September 2nd, highlighting some good tips and suggestions for making the most out of your Moodle usage in 2011-2012. One of the most important decisions you can make this year if you're just starting out Moodling is where to host your [...]
