Posts Tagged ‘free’
MDL2: free hosted Moodle 2.0 (RC2) sites up for grabs
Gnomio, a free Moodle hosting site, is now also offering free Moodle 2.0 installations through www.Mdl2.com. Sign-up is quick and easy and you can instantly start playing with your very own Moodle 2.0 site. See the differences, check out the new features and even start building a course for your future Moodle 2.0 production site. Very [...]
KeytoSchool Shifts Gears, Adopts Paid SaaS Hosting model
Interesting news from the Moodle hosting organization, KeytoSchool, which grew quickly into one of the largest communities of Moodle sites in the world. With rising demand for bandwidth/storage required by users of its tricked out Moodles, KeytoSchool stopped creating new sites a few months ago (but maintained service for all other users); a [...]
Free Moodle Classrooms through TuitionClass
Here's another free hosting site which provides users just a classroom (no full sites or admin rights): http://www.tuitionclass.net/. Signup is a breeze and once confirmed you can create your own Moodle classroom easily. Please note that this appears to be a much older version of Moodle running (Pre 1.8, possibly as old as 1.5) According to [...]
Source Wars: #Blackboard takes aim on Moodle’s image of “Free”
There's a great video by Chronicle writer Jeff Young which highlights leaders from the worlds two largest LMS firms, Martin Dougiamas of Moodle and Ray Henderson of Blackboard which discusses quickly their views on the future of LMS and each respective organization's present situation and short term goals. It's a must watch video to see how two [...]
New details about FreeWebClass hosting (premium options available)
Quick update to the free hosting post I made last week for FreeWebClass. While there is a free trial option/basic hosting available, they've put some baseline restrictions on usage, users and storage. http://freewebclass.com/ The free version, which we've tried, is available after a quick and easy sign-up. With it you can host, up to 35 [...]
Opinion – Free Hosting and it’s place in the Moodle community
I've talked quite a bit about free hosting options for Moodle since starting Moodlenews and it's because I believe these sites to be an important and positive aspect of the Moodle community at large. I do respect and acknowledge the stance that Moodle HQ takes with these companies and that they represent a possible (probable?) Service or Trade [...]
Special Summer Series: Free Hosting – Ninehub
It's that time of year where school is out and teachers are kicking back, relaxing and no doubt already thinking of their next year's plan of action. If you're a new Moodler or Moodle trainer working with teachers at a school without it's own installation then you might know a few places to get some free hosting. Over the next two weeks we're [...]
KeytoSchool.com: now hosting 80+ 3rd party plug-ins/blocks/modules, all for free
KeytoSchool.com is a non-profit that runs one of the largest networks of free Moodle hosting in the world. Though it is not an official Moodle partner, from experience I can say that K2S is both responsive and responsible with their hosting and contributions. They provide several domains on which your subdomain installation of Moodle can exist [...]
Last chance to get a free copy of MoodleTouch (enter by 4/20/10)
The MoodleTouch app giveaway survey closes tomorrow. If you haven't yet entered by filling our the short survey, do so tonight and you'll be in the running for one of the five free downloads of the MoodleTouch (mTouch) app for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Survey: http://goo.gl/Na0c. We'll also share our survey results after the winners have [...]
Free Moodle Sites
Over the last few years there has been a multifaceted effort to provide the software available as a download from Moodle.org as a hosted, end-user solution without any need to install or configure. With the advent of cheap server space and an embrace of the "software as a service" (SaaS) business model, quite a few "free" Moodle hosting [...]
