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--- sysadmin:services:moodle [2024/03/27 15:04] – created kjohns23
+++ sysadmin:services:moodle [2024/05/08 14:55] (current) – tshinin
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 ====== Moodle ======
-===== Software Updates =====
-  -  Browse to moodle -> Site administration -> Server -> Maintenance mode and set maintenance mode to enabled
+===== Overview =====
-  - ssh too moody.socs, sudo lxc-console -n moodle
+Moodle is a comprehensive classroom management solution that allows professors to communicate with students, share course content, manage submissions and process grades. It is currently used in SoCS for a select number of number of courses as an alternative to Courselink (D2L) due to its ability to be customized whereas Courselink provides a standard experience. Students are able to sign up for classes using a course specific enrollment key to get access to course material.
-  - cd /srv/www/moodle
-  - git pull
+===== Configuration =====
-  - Run git branch -v to make sure that you are running the branch that you expect
-  - Open a new moodle page, if there are plugin updates, install them
+==== Server ====
-  - Take moodle out of maintenance mode
+Moodle is hosted on a VM in the SoCS datacentre and is available at [[https://moodle.socs.uoguelph.ca|moodle.socs.uoguelph.ca]] to SoCS student and Faculty, although access to specific courses is restricted to users of those courses.
+==== Administration ====
+To upgrade moodle, the following workflow is recommended:
+  - Go to the site administration page on the moodle website (you must be in the mdladmin LDAP group to have access to this page).
+  - Access the maintenance page from the server section and set the website to maintenance mode. It is recommended to do this step when site usage is low.
+  - On Proxmox, create a snapshot of the VM updates can be easily reverted.
+  - Login with root access to the moodle server through SSH, update all packages every now and then through aptitude.
+  - Navigate to "srv/www/moodle" and do a git pull to receive the newest source code for the current version branch (version can be checked with git branch -v).
+  - Access the moodle website and follow the prompts to follow through with the update. If specific required dependencies are missing then SSH into the moodle server and install them.
+  - Once the upgrade is done, go back to the site administration section and turn maintenance mode off.
+  - It is good practice to reboot the moodle server at this stage. The upgrade is now completed. You may choose to delete the snapshot in step 3.
+To look into versions and release schedule, access the following link:
+[[https://moodledev.io/general/releases|moodledev.io/general/releases]]