Moodle Appliance

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Course Management System

Moodle is a popular e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, with tens of millions of users around the globe. Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Moodle is modular in construction and can readily be extended by creating plugins for specific new functionality.

Current version: 2009.10-2 (changelog)

Download:

179MB VM (sig)
185MB ISO (sig) (manifest)

Launch to cloud:

TurnKey Hub (Amazon EC2 - Simplified)

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Moodle configurations:
    • SSL logins are forced (security).
    • Includes support for authentication via ldap (convenience).
    • Configured default email address for admin, guest and noreply email (@example.com).
    • Set default theme to formal_white (more attractive).
  • SSL support out of the box.
  • PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
  • Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP, MySQL and Postfix.

Moodle documentation:

Default credentials:

  • Webmin, Webshell, SSH, MySQL: username root, no password
    • user sets password during installation
  • Moodle: username admin, password turnkey
Moodle - Welcome page
Moodle - Edit course
Moodle - Modules activities
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