Client Moodle upgrade and merging process presentation by Paradiso Solutions

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Moodle Upgrade
and Merging

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“Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among
eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents
selecting it as their primary LMS.”
2010 survey
Manages a range of content
•E-Learning packages
•Word documents
•PDF documents
•Audio files
•Video files
•Web links
Functionality
includes
•Full tracking
•Calendar
•Discussion
forums
•Chat rooms
•RSS feeds
•Blogs
•Wikis
•Groups
•Quizzes/surveys
Moodle Details

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Moodle LMS Upgrade and
Merging Scenario
Moodle upgrade and Moodle merging process of 2 different Moodle LMS.
This information can be very useful for upcoming Projects where updating
Moodle and fusion is needed and to provide the potential client with a sense
of clarity on what the upgrade and combining Moodle process involves and
the complexity of it.
The Core goal of the project was to take 2 different Moodle 1.9 and upgrade
them to the latest Moodle 2.4 version while making sure both Moodle LMS
would be merged into a single 2.4 Moodle system while keeping their users,
courses and permissions separated based on specific requirements. Part of
the project, was also making sure the key Moodle plugins and modules would
work and to be updated as necessary in order for the Moodle LMS to keep its
original essence.

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Moodle Upgrade and Merging
Key Steps
- Upgrading Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.2 (A External and B Internal LMS). This step was
needed since it is not possible to upgrade directly from Moodle 1.9 to 2.4. Once
Moodle was upgraded to 2.2, it was then upgraded to Moodle 2.4
- Installing patches, plugins and database pertaining to the Moodle upgrade from
Moodle 1.9 all the way to Moodle 2.4 for both LMS. After installing, verification of
plug ins is required.

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Moodle Upgrade and Merging
Key Steps
- Certificate s, Modules , and Plugin verification process. (It is necessary to make sure
the appropriate version of appearance on certificate, and functionality for modules
and plug ins)

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Moodle Upgrade and Merging
Key Steps
- Backup course X from Moodle 2.4 B (With
all course information: Resources,
activities, notes, activity participation)
- Importing the Course X from Moodle 2.4
B to the Moodle 2.4 A.
- Each new course on the Moodle A
generates a new id on the Moodle data
directory (We need to verify that the
information inside the Moodle data is
correct)
- Verify functionality of Moodle database
to make sure all information from one
Moodle is present on the other Moodle.
- In some cases because of the
manual system Moodle 2.4 has
needs to be backed up, it is needed
to import the course adding users
manually to some specific Moodle
courses where it may be needed, as
well as course data.

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Moodle Upgrade and Merging
Key Steps
- If any specific student permission or separation of users by original Moodle LMS
(External and internal) is needed this would be an additional step.

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Moodle Upgrade and Merging
Result

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Moodle Upgrade and Merging
Merging of 2 Moodle LMS is definitely possible, but nevertheless a complex and time
consuming process where even though there is a step by step plan for achieving the
goal of combining 2 Moodles together there can be unexpected detours to arrive at this
goal since all LMS even if both are Moodle 2.4 they can be quite different regarding
permissions, plugins, modules, number of courses, number of users and data amount.

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