Rower

Thank you everyone. As always, there is so much to consider here. I now have a good deal to work with, whilst I draft up a proposal. Going to be a busy term, that's for sure :-)

Thank you for your replies. I will look into LP+ or Kite as alternatives, as they sound fairly promising. Ephelyon: I agree with what you say about Moodle in a Primary environment. I feel that our old system was far too clunky and complicated for the younger children. Also, out LA platform was not 'that easy' to administer as it was fairly tied down and used to frustrate the hell out of me. However, I have now been playing with setting up Moodle on an EC2 instance as a 'test' platform, should we decide to host it ourselves, and I am running into problems with even the basic set up, but I will not be beaten by it! By the time I return to school, next Monday, I would like to be a position where I can give them a few options, feeling fairly confident that each of them will work and will be better than what we had before.

Hi All, Does anyone know of any VLE comparison documents etc. that I could look at? We have the opportunity to completely redo ours (Primary school) and I am trying to get an overview of what is out there. Our previous system was Moodle, and although I admit to being favoured in that direction at the moment, I think it is important that we check out alternatives as well. I am conscious that I may have missed something whilst on my VLE searches in Google. Kind regards Rower :-)

Thank you. Only problem is that I can't run the backup myself (even with our administrator access) as we don't have full admin rights. For example, I don't even see the settings-->Backup option (no settings menu at all). Half of the Site administration menu is looked down and shows me "Access denied" I assume I am going to have to contact the providers about the back up,.... fun job for Monday then!

Hi Everyone, I am new to edugeek (this is my first post), in fact I am new to educational ICT. My background is in software development (CRM for business) so this has been a steep learning curve for me. I would dearly like to 'talk' to anyone who has moved their Moodle site from the local Gfl and onto some other hosting. We are about to undertake this and I want to be aware of any potential pitfalls before I jump in feet first. I am concerned about a few things: 1 - I am quite new to Moodle and need to get my skills improved quickly!. 2 - How do we actually get our data off of where it is now and into a test environment ready for the move. 3 - How we are going to deal with the parts of the system that are 'locked down' by the current providers. i.e. I have no way to add administrator access to a user. 4 - The best way to deal with the school's theme etc. If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it. Obviously my main concern is this is as pain free and seamless for the school as possible. Thank you :-)