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Moodle™

Learning Management System
Moodle™ is a popular e-learning software platform, also known as a Learning Management System (LMS), 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.
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This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:
- Moodle™ configurations:
- Installed from upstream source code at /var/www/moodle.
- 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.
- Adminer 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:
Note: Moodle™ is trademarks of Moodle Pty Ltd. Neither TurnKey Linux nor this software appliance are affiliated with or endorsed by Moodle Pty Ltd.
Usage details & Logging in for Administration
No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.
Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically without paying a commercial Certificate Authority.
Username for moodle:
Login as username admin
Web - point your browser at either:
- http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
- https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate
Username for database administration:
Login as MySQL username root at
- https://12.34.56.789:12322/ - Adminer database management web app
- MySQL command line tool:
$ mysql --user root --password Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql>
Username for OS system administration:
Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.
- Point your browser to:
- https://12.34.56.789:12321/ - System control panel
- https://12.34.56.789:12320/ - Web based command line terminal
- Login with SSH client:
ssh root@12.34.56.789
Special case for AWS marketplace:
ssh admin@12.34.56.789
* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.