NOTE: DO *NOT* USE THIS METHOD TO INSTALL A MOODLE SERVER ON UBUNTU. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF TRIAL AND ERROR, AND THE METHOD IS NOT USEFUL FOR LONG TERM INSTALLATIONS. INSTALL MOODLE FROM THE UBUNTU REPOSITORY (“sudo apt-get install moodle”) OR FROM THE CVS REPOSITORY, BUT DO NOT MIX THE METHODS! (sorry for yelling

1. Install stock Ubuntu Server (7.04)
2. Check the option for a LAMP server (if it shows)
3. edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the cd (sudo nano +4 /etc/apt/sources.list)
4. set /etc/network/interfaces to static
   iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.1.42
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   broadcast 192.168.1.255
   gateway 192.168.1.1
5. add openssh-server (sudo apt-get install openssh-server)
6. stop and start the interface to bring up the new ip (sudo ifdown eth0; sudo ifup eth0)
7. switch to ssh managment (ssh user@192.168.1.42)
8. edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf to listen on a good port (this is only necessary because i run a different server on port 80. If this were set up for SSL, you would change ports.conf to listen on 443.
9. sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (look at using unattended upgrade package)
10. sudo /etc/init.d/mysql reset-password (set the root password for mysql)
11. add a database and user to mysql for moodle
    mysql -u root -p
    create user moodle identified by ‘PASSWORD’;
    create database moodle;
    grant all on moodle.* to moodle;
    exit
12. sudo apt-get install moodle (enter the following information)
    Apache2
    MySQL
    localhost
    root
    PASSWORD
    moodle
    PASSWORD
13. sudo nano +16 /etc/moodle/config.php (change this to the static ip to allow access from your ssh computer)
14. sudo nano +12 /etc/moodle/apache.conf (remove the # on line 12 to allow access from outside localhost)
15. restart apache, sudo apache2 -k restart
16. go through the web browser setup (this writes the tables!)

click continue through a few pages…
change the country name
probably should run clam on startup… must have it installed first!
set the smtp (if needed)
max editing time..i like 60 – i hate to lose my work!
enable stats

17. Log into the adming for the site and convert all the data in your database to Unicode using our migration script. Click here to run the migration script now!
18. DELETE /var/www/apache-default
19. apt-get remove moodle, it leaves the /etc/moodle files and the database entries.
20. cd /var/www
21. sudo apt-get install cvs
22. login to the CVS repository
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@eu.cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle login
    No password for anonymous, so just hit the Enter button.
23. sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@eu.cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle co -r MOODLE_19_STABLE moodle
24. when you go back to the web browser, it will start a new migration script. teh only thing i had to change was the data location from /var/moodledata to /var/lib/moodle
25. this created a directory called moodle in the www files. do “sudo nano index.php” to create a redirector

meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=/moodle”

26. open up /etc/moodle/apache.conf, comment out the alias, and change the directory match to /var/www/
27. log back in to the web page and run updates
28. sudo a2enmod ssl
29. sudo apt-get install ssl-cert
30. sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
31. sudo /usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
32. edit cp the default site enabled to your new name and edit for *.443, also add (in the ## area in the middle)
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
    SSLProtocol all
    SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
33. sudo a2ensite [sitename]
34. change /etc/apache2/ports.conf to 443

• http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upgrading
• To update, just go into the Moodle root directory and update to the new files: cvs update -dP
• To update to a new version type in the following and change 18 to whatever newest version upgrade number is cvs -Q update -dP -r MOODLE_18_STABLE

Incoming search terms:

• remove moodle from ubuntu
• uninstall moodle ubuntu
• setting up moodle on ubuntu
• install moodle ubuntu
• moodle unicode ubuntu
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Forrest Gaston http://www.schooltechperson.com
Forrest Gatson (incorrect)

k12openminds.org October 10, 2007, Indy

VServer, Xen – - virtualization tools w/ low overhead.

The EASISEST linux imaging setup
- G4L
- Auto install scripts

forrest recommends one image per room! that really beats one image per configuration!

Overview Concepts of Imaging
Booting using:
-PXE
-USB
-CD
-DVD

Distribution
-media
-ftp
-multicast
-rsync
-bittorrent
-SSH

Auto install scripts
“Take these settings and image the next box the same way”. a waste of time for more than 2 machines; poor scalability.

G4L (Ghost 4 linux)
Boots off a cd, menu options, will image NTFS, multicast, easy restore
-can be slow, reads EVERY bit, varying hdd’s cause a problem, no management.
available on sourceforge
quick and simple

System Imager Derivative
Very fast for writing individual partitions. no scalability, great for one partition, available on linux rescue cd

Clonezilla Server
Very Fast, some management, auto install, PXE
needs a “server”, limited management, takes time to get setup
easy boot menu “push an image, or pull an image?”
10-12 to push an image 3-4 minutes to pull an image.
needs to be a dedicated box

Clonezilla Live!
no PXE, create a bootable Cd or other media, VERY fast, push the image through ssh
many keyboard commands
great for making a “restore DVD”
no management
unicast
will allow imagaing a dual boot system

* System Imager (Forrest’s favorite)
Many ways to boot and distribute
many management options
adaptable to various hardware
can push & pull images
can set a hostname
distribute over buttorrent
partition based on %
can image over SSH over the internet
may allow dual boot imaging (NTFS) (Forrest isn’t sure, but it obviously won’t allow changing settings in windows)
Revert to old image, has “deep freeze” capability.

okay, Forrest is great, but i got distracted and started looking a moodle again. i’m using ubuntu, and it took 10 minutes to get it up and running using apt-get moodle. VERY impressive!!!!!

Incoming search terms:

• linux imaging server
• linux image server
• linux multicast image server
• ghost4linux multicast very slow
• linux-image-server
• ghost4linux multicast
• linux image server linux server
• imaging server linux
• linux multicast imaging
• linux pxe multicast imaging

K-12 Open Minds Conference, INDY 10.10.07

Michael Penney

Moodle is an opensource classroom alternative to web software like Blackboard

What is moodle?
Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

Porvides the necessary features for effective online teaching and learning.
- Discussion boards
- tests
- assignments
- content (html, word, pdf, audio, video)
- gradebook/outcomes
- standards
- communities/groups

Difficult to export from WebCT, easy to export from Blackboard (?)

Why an LMS?
- Learning management System
- Course management system
- Virtual learning Environment

One Interface:
- A consistent interface is one in which the same methods are used throughout fro the same or similar goals, resulting in fewer methods to be learned.”
John, B.E. Carnegie Mellon University; Use GOMS for User Interface Design and Evaluation: Which Technique?”

- intuitive
- easy to use
- expert vs. occasional users
- learnable

Why an integrated system?
dramatic growth in demand with limited growth in resources.

What do you need in an LMS?
- Method to present learning content
- Methods for students to hand in work
- methods for students to collaborate
- methods for assessing student learning
- communication tools

School information format (SIF) – has a moodle plugin. ( LOOK it up!) Wasn’t richard referring to sif?

Administrators need:
- roles
- reporting
- security
- learnability
- scalability
- affordability

Is LMS a COST or an INVESTMENT?
data shows a dramatic growth in online education

‘Millenial Learners’
Students and faculty demand –
- 24/7 access to learning resources
- online communication facilities
- new learners with new challenges

Pandemic Planning
- the need for distance learning opportunities in the event of a pandemic.

How can we build the LMS of the future?
3 puzzle pieces: Users + Partners + Core

Teaching Institution Process
Create Course -> Teach Course -> Copy Course -> (Archive Course) -> Teach Course

Institutional Collaboration
inter-institution log-in and collaboration

HarvestRoad – a content manager, maintains copyright integrity

A wiki will be integrated within moodle in the next version (or 2)

An ability to invite new users/students (released as a custom module)

Incoming search terms:

• benefits of moodle for students

Tom Huffman
K-12 Open Minds Conference
October 10, 2007

I lost all my notes. i hit the “screen-down” trigger and put the laptop into hibernate mode; it wouldn’t wake up. i was obnoxious – two beeps. i hate being obnoxious. and i hate losing my text. and i can’t find a temp file.

abstract your code. just do it. (bad habit of mine == hard coding variables, because i’m only going to use it once.. for now!)

django

Tom runs schooltool for canonical

no project is too small to abstract.

ZOPE 3

How many people will use your project is heavily dependent on the number of people who know your tools.

php – not a fan of it, but it is well known.

novell, mono.
crowd comment: mono code sitting in the back of front end open-source (i.e. secondlife)
Tom: mono is great for .net development

revision control.
any involved software requires version control. To back up broken software, and for collaboration.
the use of a central repository.
takes time to learn to use, but is well worth it.
setting up a public source repository
a real open source project has a code repository
programmers know the work is public from the start.

“We’ll release it after we get a chance to clean it up.” = Never
(i think this guy is quoting my common practices)

Subversion – the most commonly used version control system
Bazaar (bzr) – canonical, distributed version control
git – manages linux source tree

**Trac – hosting software for tracking bugs, interacting with the repository, wiki (YOU WANT TO DO THIS!!) (an alternative to web-svn)

Tom has a google doc for “”Open Sourcing Your…” not sure if it’s public or private == tom.hoffman@gmail.com

Launchpad – canonical version management

A neat decision tree for choosing licenses says he’ll post it on the conference site.

Open Source Open Minds 10/10/2007

Open minds conference

Mako Hill… introduces GNU and talks about Linus’s contribution… yada yada.. GNU/Linux..

People? “People like to call it GNU/Linux” .. people i.e. RMS

i guess it’s beautiful that he’s introducing nix for the first time to folks.

APACHE!

Open source vs. Free Software – it’s not free, but you can manipulate it..

is he gonna talk about GPL3 ?

“Free software has succeeded under the banner of open source” .. RMS would say that if it succeeded as “Open Source” it did NOT succeed.

RE: Netscape/ FF / Cathedral and Bizaar Eric.. He’s going there! he does know what he’s talking about!! monolithic vs. polylithic

umm umm umm, so so so

“FEATURE?” oh.. pop up blocker plugin

munny. munny.

he’s talking about fundamental freedom!!! woo hoo!

GNU manifesto –

“I’ve been part of discussions as a part of the olpc tour”

he said, “the gnu side is with me” woo hoo…

eric raymond.. reference 2.. many eyes make a problem pool shallow.

Some guy has a question about OLPC…
“the goal has always been to do the best thing for education…”
“we weren’t committed to free software until fairly recently” (odd…)

what are the biggest problems facing free software?
the open-sourceness of software running as a service on someone else’s computer.
free software has spent a lot of time emulating commercial software. The emulation is a dead end.

surprised that he didn’t mention the lack of freely available hardware drivers.

question… something about FF. “Why did firefox succeed?”
things LIKE the ability to not show pop-ups… ff met the needs of users. (tabbed browsing!) it’s accessible. people have the opportunity to add extensions/plugins into firefox. He referenced greasemonkey! (?)how cool!
drivers DRIVERS!! WE NEED DRIVERS!!!