Posts Tagged ‘Hosting’
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 [...]
@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 [...]
Poll: Recommend a Hosting Site
We have a long list of possible free hosting sites at Moodlenews.com/hosting, but sometimes the community can give even better advice to a teacher seeking hosting (paid or free) for their classroom. Whether you self-host or pay for hosting through a domain registration site, shared hosting service or dedicated hosting server farm, take a minute [...]
The ups and downs of a Moodle Upgrade: One users experience with KeytoSchool’s recent transition
Frankie Kam (who is the Moodler behind some cool tricks and tips ) posted this comment over the weekend and I thought it was worth a share with all Moodlenews readers. The comment is from our post about KeytoSchool's transition from free for all to SaaS for new users. Frankie (like myself and 1000s of others) has long been using K2S for it's [...]
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 [...]
MMU Chooses @ULCC for hosting: ULCC users perform 4.5 mm Moodle actions per month!
One of the largest non-partner hosting entities in the world is the University of London Computing Centre (@ULCC) which recently was bolstered by landing another major client, the 33,000 user Manchester Metropolitan University. While a non-partner, ULCC is creating a huge value for colleges and universities in it's ability and expertise in [...]
