Moodle success at ULCC17th December 2009

Moodle success at ULCC17th December 2009

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Agenda

• Success in 2009

• Progress in 2009

• The ULCC data centre strategy

• Scaling up your moodle service

Success

‘Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.’

Woody Allen

Hosted user group 2009

Highlights of the year

100+ Moodle customers

Echo360 pilot

Gordon’s podcasts

Video streaming

Recruited extra staff

Conversions from Pilot to Live

Number of Moodle/Mahara installations at ULCC

Moodle/Mahara Installations hosted at ULCC

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

2007 2008 2009

Number installations

Registered Moodle users at ULCC

Number registered Moodle users (thousands)

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

2007 2008 2009

November

Number users ('000s)

ULCC Moodle activity Jun08 - today

ULCC Moodle Activity

0

500000

1000000

1500000

2000000

2500000

3000000

3500000

4000000

4500000

5000000

Jun-08 Jul-08 Aug-08 Sep-08 Oct-08 Nov-08 Dec-08 Jan-09 Feb-09 Mar-09 Apr-09 May-09 Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09

Average activity per customer

Average activity per customer

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

2007 2008 2009

November

Activity (000's)

Average number registered Moodle users per customer

Average number of registered Moodle users per customer

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

2007 2008 2009

November

Number of users (000's)

Scaling the service

Scaling up

General VM clusterHardware server App Services VM cluster

VM console

ULCC infrastructure

• Advantages of VMware platforms

– Provide automatic fail over if a hardware platform fails

– Resources are utilised more efficiently

– Easy to upgrade – more CPUs, more RAM as needed

– Easier system management

Scaling Moodle levels

Entry Level

Scaling up

ILPs, Mahara

Live usage, but early days

Shared with many other installations

Shared VM with limited number of others

Dedicated VM, 2 CPUs

Year1

Year2 onwards

Dedicated VM, 4 CPUs or more, more RAM, disk space

Additional features User maturity

Another quote

"If A equals success,

then the formula is A = X +Y + Z,

with X being work, Y play,

and Z keeping your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein