[Moodle] time allowance

[anton]

Thanks Stephen, I will take you upon that, my school is in Berwick 
(Clyde North) so it's not too far away.  We will be using a Windows 
version and my techo really does not have a clue so it's going to be a 
challenge for him as well.  But I love your time saving ideas.
:)
Anton


Stephen Bloomer wrote:
> Anton, one of the best things you could do is find a local school that
> already has one set up so someone can act as a bit of a mentor for you
> as there are so many different ways to set it up and run it.  
>
> We have about 900 users, and so I don't have to maintain user we just
> configured it to link to our main servers via LDAP.  When a person logs
> on for the first time Moodle sucks that data in and automatically
> creates there account.  Then the teacher gives the students the
> enrolment key to give the student access to the course. The only time I
> manually allocate people to courses is when I am linking a teacher to
> the course so that they have teaching rights.  
>
> I also set up the same system for a local health department to run the
> same way as you require little maintenance and there is never a
> requirement to do user imports.
>
> During the initial setup, are you going to run on Windows or Linux?  We
> run ours on window and for us it is by far the best way, but I know most
> run Moodle on a Linux server. If you are going to run it on Windows,
> don't be afraid to give us a call or if you are not to fare away you
> could drop in for a coffee.
>
>
> Stephen Bloomer
> sbloomer at stpeters.vic.edu.au 
> Network Manager
> St. Peter's College
> Cranbourne-Frankston Road
> Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3977
>
> Phone  +61 3 5996 6733
> Fax      +61 3 5996 8277
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of anton
> Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 9:39 AM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Moodle] time allowance
>
> Thanks Stephen, it doesn't sound to hard.
> :)
> Anton
>
>
> Stephen Bloomer wrote:
>   
>> Once Moodle is set up and running there is only a couple of things
>>     
> that
>   
>> you will need to do.  Some of this will depend on if your Techie is
>> looking after things like backups and patching.  If they are you will
>> only need about 5 minutes each time a user requests new course be
>> created and time to educate staff on how to use it.  At the moment I
>> would say my time to manage and maintain Moodle is less than 15
>>     
> minutes
>   
>> a week.  
>>
>> Stephen Bloomer
>> sbloomer at stpeters.vic.edu.au 
>> Network Manager
>> St. Peter's College
>> Cranbourne-Frankston Road
>> Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3977
>>
>> Phone  +61 3 5996 6733
>> Fax      +61 3 5996 8277
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
>> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Anton Yoxon
>> Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 8:50 AM
>> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
>> Subject: [Moodle] time allowance
>>
>> Hi everyone, the school I am at wants to introduce Moodle which will
>>     
> be 
>   
>> great, but they are placing it on me to be the Moodle coordinator.  
>> Could people please let me know of what I am to expect and especially
>>     
> of
>   
>> how much time should be allowed for this.
>> Thanks everyone.
>> Regards
>> :)
>> Anton Yoxon
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