Audience: IT running and managing large scale Moodle system, DevOps, system administrators
Date: Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Time: 10:00 - 14:00 CEST (check your local time zone)
Hosts: Nadav Kavalerchik (IUCC)
Description:
After an intensive year of accelerated online learning, we are gathered to share information, success stories, challenges and solution from IT perspective of running and managing large scale Moodle system. The webinar will include a list of short presentation (20min each) from different institutions that will share best practice about running large scale Moodle systems, including ideas about improving system performances, server architectures, managing course, supporting users, system upgrades and security considerations.
After each presentation we will have a short (10min) Q&A.
TBD: We will end the webinar with an official speaker from Moodle HQ, talking about the future plans and roadmap of Moodle considering support for features relevant for large scale systems. (30min)
You are all welcome to join the daily discussion and shared information on our Telegram group: https://t.me/large_scale_moodle
The webinar will be recorded and later shared on the GÉANT website event page and wiki.
Registration
https://events.geant.org/event/731/
Agenda
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Timing (CET) | Topic / Talk |
|---|---|
| 09:40-10:00 | Lobby: Preparation, come and meet the organizers over a cup of coffee and test your audio and video |
10:00-10:05 | Welcome and introduction |
| 10:05-10:35 20 min + 10 min Q&A | Running Moodle at ARNES (Slovenia) Speaker: Martin Božič |
| 10:35-11:10 20 min + 10 min Q&A | Running Moodle at University College London (UK) Speaker: Alistair Spark |
| 11:10-11:40 20 min + 10 min Q&A | Running Idaho State University Moodle on AWS (USA) Speaker: Michael Spall |
| 11:40-11:45 5 min | Briefly presenting the Moodle Àgora project (XTEC) Technical info: https://github.com/projectestac/agora |
| 11:45-12:00 | Quick break with continued conversation in main room |
| 12:00-12:30 20 min + 10 min Q&A | Running Moodle.org on Kubernetes (Moodle HQ) Speaker: Eduard Cercos |
| 12:30-13:00 20 min + 10 min Q&A | Running Moodle at the Israeli Ministry of Education Speaker: Avi Levi |
| 13:00-13:30 20 min + 10 min Q&A | Running Moodle at CARNET (Croatia) Speaker: Michael Ruder Rapajic |
| 13:30-14:00 | General discussion, conclusion and next steps Host: Nadav Kavalerchik |