We ran moodle at the old school.
Which was up and running form the ICT Support side, just the teaching staff never really got interested even after training sessions. In the end i offered to upload and create content for the vle if the teacher gave me some resources to work from. some did, but most did'nt.
as for installing it and getting it running took acouple of days for me to so.
But at my new place we are running uniservity, which im not involved in yet!