Moodle is a course management system that allows educators to create online learning communities for their students. It has an open design with a large developer community creating plugins, themes and modules.Moodle is used all over the world in environments small and large and is one of the better supported Open Source course management systems.
The JumpBox for Moodle is a great way to get up to speed with Moodle and requires a minimal investment in time and money. It`s a production ready installation of Moodle and includes the JumpBox management tools and backup system to help make operations as simple as possible.
If you`ve ever wanted to give Moodle a try, the JumpBox is the easiest way to do it.
Here are some key features of "JumpBox for Moodle":
· An intuitive user interface to quickly guide users through deployment.
· A web-based control panel for simplified management of system functions.
· A backup system that enables data security and portability.
Requirements:
· Virtualization software. Any of: VMWare, Parallels, Xen Open Source, Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Iron.
· For easiest use: a network that assigns dynamic IP addresses. (Most do)
· 3 GB Free disk space.
· Minimum 1 GB System RAM.
· Minimum 1 Ghz CPU.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Moodle has been updated to version 2.0.3+. You should be able to restore from the Moodle JumpBox version 1.0 and later.
· This update contains minor bug fixes. See the complete Moodle release notes for more detail: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Release_Notes
· If upgrading you will be prompted to go through the Moodle upgrade wizard. In most instances simply clicking the button at the bottom of each page will be sufficient to complete the upgrade. See the release notes for 1.6.0 if upgrading from a JumpBox release prior to 1.6.0.
