Take your online learning strategy in a new direction.Introducing LMS strategies from Dell and Moodlerooms.

A new digital era in education.Online learning isn’t just a trend—it’s here to stay. As such, it has become a mission-

critical application. And staying on top of it requires maintaining predictable, high

service levels—especially during peak demand periods. This has created a challenge

for educational institutions: how do you implement and maintain a Learning

Management System (LMS) that is within your budget, meets your students’ needs,

doesn’t take too much time to manage and can be hosted without difficulty?

The partnership between Dell and

Moodlerooms provides:

• Professional services, including

implementation, available data transfer,

software management and professional

development/training

• An optimal environment to administer

high-quality learning programs

• Hosting options whether on-premise or

within Dell’s Cloud Services

• A tier 4 data center with state-of-the-art

data management and security

The Dell Cloud environment that supports Moodlerooms’ clients utilizes:

• Dell PowerEdge M610 blade servers

featuring Intel Xeon processor

series architecture

• Dell Power Connect

• VMware vSphere 4 as the underlying

virtualization solution

• Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage (15K and

10K SAS, and 7.2K SATA)

• Cisco Catalyst/Nexxis 10G routing/

switching infrastructure

A powerful combination.Create a reliable, flexible and affordable end-to-end learning management platform with Dell

infrastructure and Moodlerooms—a platform that can be tailored to fit the needs of large

universities, community colleges and for-profit colleges or state departments of education and

school districts.

It starts with Dell’s powerful enterprise technology solutions, including Dell PowerEdge™ servers

using Intel® Xeon® processors, EqualLogic™ storage and Dell’s Cloud Services. Three elements that

together create a reliable infrastructure offering real-time, on-demand scalability and state-of-

the-industry hosting security.

It continues with Moodlerooms’ managed open-source platform that provides tested, certified

next-generation tools, as well as their service-oriented approach. Because you have a variety of

options when selecting the services and features of your LMS, you can customize the perfect fit to

solve your students’ learning needs.

Together, Dell and Moodlerooms have teamed up with Intel to provide a powerful, scalable

and affordable open-source learning management solution. One that automates administrative

tasks and frees up your staff to focus on student achievement—giving students a complete and

competitive e-learning experience.

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Learn how you can implement a learning management platform from Dell and Moodlerooms.

Call (800) 274-7799 or visit www.dell.com/moodlerooms

Open source. Open minds.In an era when the demand for online learning is increasing every year,

you need a cost-effective, reliable open-source solution. One that offers all

of the benefits of open-source Moodle with enterprise-level support, services

and features. Because you require specific services and features, you can

customize an end-to-end learning management platform from Dell and

Moodlerooms that can help you to:

• Reduce risk through a pre-validated hardware and software stack

• Maintain high service levels with an architecture that’s proven to support

2,500 concurrent users and 150 page requests per second

• Reduce costs with an open-source software deployed on a cost-effective

hardware architecture

Institutions all around the world are benefitting from the Dell and

Moodlerooms partnership. Now it’s your turn.

Louisiana State University made the grade with Moodle.By utilizing Moodle, LSU was able

to dramatically improve LMS usage,

increase training and support options,

and significantly reduce reaction

time—all within the financial footprint

of its previous commercial course

management system.

Only one year after it deployed Moodle,

LSU’s learning management system saw:

• Concurrent usage as high as

24,000 users

• Average of 12,000 users during peak

usage times

• 40% increase in instructor participation

• 140% increase in user adoption

Features of Moodlerooms’ Joule:

• Software as a service

• Moodle 1.9 + extended features

• Products and services developed around Moodle 1.9

• Optimized server architecture for hosting

• Security, support, training and maintenance included

Dell PowerEdge™ M610 blade servers feature Intel® Xeon™ processors—the next generation of intelligent server processor.