Moodle

Last month I wrote a blog post comparing different versions of Moodle and the demands they each place on hardware. With Moodle 2.4 release just around the corner, I thought I would perform the same series of tests – here are the results. Warning: these tests are not scientific by any standards but I am comparing apples with apples, please read my previous blog post to check my methodology – I did not change anything on my server/Moodle site since my last round of tests....

1. The ‘News forum’ won’t go away! So you have tried a million times to delete the ‘News forum’ at the top of your Moodle course to no avail. The thing is tougher than a cockroach and simply won’t die! Sure you could hide it from students, but that’s cheating. Problem in context: whenever you create a new Moodle course, you get a ‘News forum’ created at the top – whether you want it or not....

Note: this post is aimed towards admins who run their Moodle installation on a Ubuntu Linux server. As usual, this is not meant to be a definitive list or how-to, but rather an introduction to what a Moodle administrator can do to ensure their installation is running smoothly. Monitoring tools The following tools are listed in increasing order of difficulty of use. I have used them all but I have found that unless I load test, the first 3 tools tend to be enough for me....

This post is part of the Moodle Oktobertest series. iMacros records your web browsing activity so that you can later simulate the actions of a real Moodle user, all automatically. For example, you start up Firefox and set iMacros to record. You go about your daily business on Moodle as normal (e.g. login, view your course, add an assignment, answer some forum posts and logout), iMacros keeps a record of everything you click on during your session, including all the forms that you fill in until you press ‘Stop recording’....

Note: this blog post is part of the Moodle Oktobertest series Apache JMeter book by Emily H. Halili Apache JMeter documentation and best practices Before you start this tutorial, you need to download the following: JMeter application JMeter LoadTesting script generator It is possible that you’ll get an error if you’re trying to run this in Moodle 2.2+. All you need to do is open the ‘index....