Notes from Moodlemooot 2013
Dave Sun from the U of A talked about their Moodle installation
The U of A migrated from Blackboard Vista to Moodle
They use three primary moodle servers, production, archive and test
archive is a copy of the expired course with all student data removed, used for staff to import course content from.
Git is used to maintain moodles.
The instances run as a vmware cluster, with pgsql as the database.
There is a provincial initiative to consolidate moodle hosting with Cybera. Cybera is using openstack and Chef to roll moodle installs.
In addition to the 6 application servers and single database server, there is a server dedicated to running moodle cron and backup jobs.
Redmine is used for project management.
Tuesday AM is set time for minor changes like plugin updates. Last sunday of month for major upgrades.
Moodle's cohort system is used for handling enrolments.
Users are kicked across in a daily batch
Using PeopleSoft on the back end
Help desk uses Kayaco support suite for ticketing with end users.
OTRS is also used for ticketing
Baseline response to tickets is 24h
Very few core modifications (maybe 10 lines of code total, and that's for their category level admin plugin)
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