Easy to migrate Moodle to sharepoint?

[cheaptonersucks]

Hi

 

Calling any Moodle gurus!

 

Moodle has been setup in school using Bitnami on a Windows 2008 box. Access to Moodle is only available to staff and students internally as external access is not available with type of Bitnami setup.

 

Is it possible and if so is it very easy to migrate Moodle over to Sharepoint so external (home) access can be setup for staff and students?

 

Any advice welcome on any other VLE solution other than Moodle as we have no Linux experience.

 

Thanks

[3s-gtech]

Moodle works lovely on IIS if that helps. Otherwise you may have to port some content to Sharepoint that won't necessarily be easy to do!

[cheaptonersucks]

Hi

Thanks, because Moodle was setup using Bitnami and not using IIS it's only accessible internally. No spare server to setup on IIS and with no knowledge of Moodle we are looking to migrate to Sharepoint. How would we go about porting the content over to Sharepoint please? Do you know of any other way to setup external access to Moodle?

[Davit2005]

Whilst Sharepoint is a great product I wouldn't personally class it as a VLE, What sort of target audience are we talking about, not only Student but staff who are going to be managing their content.

 

If you have resources to build a SharePoint then why not a new Moodle solution or look to external hosted moodle??

[unixman_again]

Moodle works fine on WAMP if it helps - that's how we run it. It's a doddle to setup - there's plenty of docs available on moodle.org. It really does just work.

[cheaptonersucks]

Thanks Davit2005, we looked into externally hosting Moodle but cost is an issue with that route. Staff and Students will need to be able to access whatever VLE is chosen to add and access content externally. Quite a lot of work has gone into building Moodle but with the Bitnami setup and not being setup on IIS external access is currently unavailable.

 

Has anyone seen Bitnami used to setup Moodle and if so have they managed to setup external access?

 

Thanks

[cheaptonersucks]

Thanks unixman_again. I am not familiar with WAMP, I will look it up! Apparently the HOD wanted Moodle setting up quickly which is why Bitnami was used. Just need a reasonably quick way of getting a VLE working externally.

[keithu]

What is stopping you from sharing your current installation externally?

[cheaptonersucks]

Thanks Keithu, the Network Manager has installed Moodle using Bitnami on a 2008 box and hasn't installed/setup IIS. Do you know of a way to enable external access with Moodle without IIS?

[keithu]

Thanks Keithu, the Network Manager has installed Moodle using Bitnami on a 2008 box and hasn't installed/setup IIS. Do you know of a way to enable external access with Moodle without IIS?

 

I don't understand why you think IIS is required.

 

Presumably your existing installation of moodle works, so you must have a web server running on your windows box even if it isn't IIS. I would guess that Bitnami installs the WAMP stack so the web server is Apache.

 

Changing to a different web server won't make your Moodle any more accessible to the outside world; you need to configure your firewall/router so that requests from outside are directed to your Moodle server.

[cheaptonersucks]

Thanks Keithu, I was informed that Moodle wouldn't be accessible externally without IIS, but I will look into making the existing installation accessible through the firewall.