Articles
2020
Cost of Running Moodle as your own
As moodle is open source and have full features which are required to run a digital education platform, WEB platform [online]Mobile App platform [offline suppport]Desktop APp as well [offline support]…
July 3, 2020
Redis Over EFS for Caching In moodle cluster solution
If you are on this page, it means you are going with a scaling part for moodle. Now webserver part is okay, the challenge comes with Shared file storage. That…
June 28, 2020
Moodle Plugin : Local/Enrolstats
An Enrolment Stats list, that can be viewed by site admin or the the user who has capability at the category level with a category drop down filter. For the…
June 21, 2020
AWS Well-Architect Framework : Points
General Design Principles : Stop guessing your capacity needs:Test systems at production scale:Automate to make architectural experimentation easier:Allow for evolutionary architectures:Drive architectures using data:Improve through game days: Well Architect Framework…
June 20, 2020
Quick Start guide for Stress / Load Testing on Moodle
I hope, you have your environment ready, now you want to put a load to Test it. We will be utilizing, Apache Jmeter tool for this. Basic knowledge of Jmeter…
June 17, 2020
Moodle Horizontal Scalable Deployment on AWS stack
we are talking about the horizontal scalable deployment of moodle > 2.7. Horizontal Scaling : we are putting more than one computing machine to respond the request. Challenges : there…
June 17, 2020
Moodle Plugin : Local/Systemstats
This is a moodle local plugin . It will work for moodle version > 3.5, however, you can try with modole above than 2.7 Problem Statement In moodle most of the…
June 11, 2020
AMD javascript plugin to disable right click / cut / copy paste for Moodle
Following JS file can be included, that can disable Mouse Right ClickOpening of developer console in BrowserDisable Cut / Copy / Paste Following is the code (AMD) JavaScript File Download…
May 12, 2020
Using JS / jQuery in moodle 2.9 above
After moodle 2.9 , there is a change, how the js should be added in the php page, specially for the jQuery. How to include other/custom Js files ?how to…
May 11, 2020
Is Moodle Enough as an e-learning solution?
In the current situations where e-learning/LMS is not a luxury or add-on , it has become the requirement . COVID-19 has accelerated this requirement in many fold and Whenever there…
April 19, 2020
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure vs AWS
OCI vs AWS If we talk about cloud, the first provider we think about is one of the top 3 providers AWS CloudMicrosoft Azure CloudGoogle Cloud I am not going…
April 5, 2020
BlackBoard Course Migration To Moodle
Step-by-Step guide for migrating courses from the Blackboard standard version to moodle version > 1.9. Black Board Categorisation Objective Solution Step-1 Step-2 Step-3 Step-4 Download Black Board Categorisation For the…
February 4, 2020
2019
How important it is to upgrade your AMP(Apache, PHP, Mysql) Stack?
Whenever we have a project/product to develop using LAMP stack, the following are the major factors in Platform stack version selection Availability of software(PHP, MYSQL, APACHE)Configuration/Setup of developer machinesHosting server…
November 6, 2019
All in one .htaccess For the wordpress
All in one .htaccess file for the wordpress, which is utilised for the security restrictions and caching management for the apache webserver. Compressing the static files setting up the cache…
July 8, 2019
Preparation Guide for AWS Architect-Associate Certificate :
aws_certification When you think to get a certificate, especially when it is your first certificate , There are a lot of questions in the mind, Is it worthy to do…
July 3, 2019
AWS Shared Security Model
This is AWS shared responsibility Model- AWS take care for the managed services like RDS. It ask you configure the time for patch update. But it does not for the…
June 2, 2019
AWS Elastic IP and use case
Aws Elastic IP : Aws provide a functionality so that you can reserve the public IP. You can utilize that public ip to attach with ec2 instances. How it is…
June 2, 2019
how to make command aliases for command prompt?
use-case let say there is one long command you often use, may be ssh to server with certificate ip and user so either you go from history to connect or…
May 12, 2019
Apache Web Server Basic Security fixes and Optimisation
If you are utilising the apache web server HTTP for your website hosting and you maintain that server, then you must consider the following points, Turn on LOGS and installing…
February 27, 2019
AWS Fundamentals
AWS Service Status : https://status.aws.amazon.com/ You can check for the status for All AWS services from the following page provided by aws : service status dashboard In AWS You Pay for…
February 14, 2019