Free Moodle-installed Servers and

English Support

Joe’s Cloud Computing Inc. Shion Suzuki and Osamu Ikehara

Friday, March 2nd 2013

About Us: Joe’s Cloud ComputingHQ: Umeda in Osaka(Ginza and Aoyama in Tokyo)President: Teiko SuzukiEstablished: July 2002

Renewed as Joe’s Cloud Computing since July 2012

• Cloud Hosting• SSL Certs• Virtual Offices

10th Anniversary July 1st, 2012

Shion Suzuki

Year/Month What I was doing

2007 Fall – 2009 Summer Junior High in UK

2009 Fall– 2012 Summer High School in NY, USA

2012 Summer–2013 Spring Working with Joe’s

2013 Spring- College in Hiyoshi, Yokohama

How did I know Moodle?Joe’s training for new staffs

Osamu Ikehara(Engineer) will appears for demo and Q-A

Hobby

Sports, Cooking, Dog

For what Joe’s uses Moodle?

• In-House Training (SSL certs, Shared/Dedicated Servers)• The LMS Servers:

a hosting service dedicated for Moodle (unique in Japan)Free 1-year server account (Beginners’ Plan)

Joe’s In-House Training for 2012 New Staffshttp://team.lms.ac

Moodle

• HQ is in Perth in Australia (Moodle.org)• Learning via Internet (home study, self-learning)• CMS working on Php+MySQL• Learning materials are more important than site designs • In Japan, Moodle is intensively promoted by MAJ, professors,

developers, etc. and is getting popular.

Moodle 2.4 is the latest.

What server should be used for Moodle?

• Servers in your university (if you’re Professor):the center, your dept, your labo

• Servers in your office (IP address is required)• Servers in your home (IP address is required)• Hosting and Cloud:

either with or without Linux knowledge

Servers in University (1)(if provided by the center in a top-down manner)

You are lucky. You do not have to either prepare or manage servers

Cost-effective because no expensive licence fees for any e-learning softwareHakodate-Mirai, Mie U.

Servers in University (2)Dilemma in your Labo and Dept.

• What if students’ personal info, scores are leaked?• The LAMP(Linux apache, mysql, php) environment

should be updated in a real time manner.• Support may be increasing

People What they do

Technical Staff

In order to avoid the risks, they are negative about your request.

Your Students They do not work without rewards or dinner

Yourself You cannot manage your servers (update the LAMP) even if you can manage Moodle.

In-House and Home Servers

• IT professionals (group)• Managing internet accessible servers (IP address should be obtained)

ExpensePower for keeping servers onRegistering and maintaining IP addresses Hiring Infra Engineers

If servers in your office (home) can be set up and managed, so the Moodle environment can be.

Hosting and Cloud(Server and Site managements)

Access status management ServersRoot access(including User access)

ServerandSite

CloudDedicated (self-management)

User access Site Dedicated (full-management)Shared servers

Better to concentrate on Moodle management rather than on both server and Moodle In Cloud and VPS, templates help your server management only for initialization

Cloud: cost and management is hardfor Enterprise rather than each Faculty

Moodle Cloud costAWS subscriptionw/o depending how many servers

$5/m

AWS serversStandard Micro (1 server)

$0.02/h

Moodle Cloud software licence $0.02/h

If you successfully installed it via a template,Linux knowledge is required for setting virtual host, DNS, and many others.Support at AWS is not a school. They only help you assuming you have necessary knowledge

HostingShared or (full-managed) Dedicated Servers

Shared Servers: Take it easy

Minimum server knowledge is required

1,000-2,000 JPY for server plus Moodle

The provider manages server and you manage Moodle.

Moodle has been popular amongcPanel Hosting usersFantastico users allowing one touch Moodle install

Login to cPanelsetting mail, MySQL,

subdomain, etc

Choose Moodle at Fantastico

Set-up Moodle by filling minimum info(no MySQL setting is required)

Plan Price URLBeginner’sPlan

You can use Moodle immediately(Free for 1-year)

http://subdomain.lms.ac

StandardPlan

You can use Moodle easily(but also for other purposes)18,900 JPY/y

http://domain

Support as a supporting member of Japan Moodle Association

Talk with Joe’s engineers during 8-22 for weekdays and 9-18 for weekendsThe latest Moodle is availableYou may ask MoodleYou can meet Joe’s staff face-to-face, say Ginza/Aoyama/Umeda, Moodle Moot and OpenSource Conference

Get Moodle 2.4 Free Account now!

• Free for 1-year• Can be used for Moodle

• http://subdomain.lms.ac(if the subdomain is vacant, the account will be issued soon)

• You can decide whether moving to the paid plan after 1-year(The beginners’ plan is used for Moodle.)

• Non-profit campaign for OpenSource and Moodle than profit

Get the free plan now either http://lms.ac or booth. (The account can be used for Moodle Moot workshop etc.)

Events whenMoodle Moot 2012 Feb.

2013 March.NetCommonsUser Conference

2011 August.2012 August.

OpenSource Conference

11 events since 2011 July

• Support OSS Joe’s has been using as services• Support young OSS communities

Sponsorship/donationsAllowing them to use the conference room at Ginza and Umeda for OSS events

Joe’s Backup featureIT service providers would be taking backup of customers’ data

(But, they do not give you your data when you lose it)They do for their own purposes: disk crash, human error

Joe’ ｓ Backup featurePeriodically forwarding backup data to specified servers such as university.(The server to forwading the backup should be prepared)

バックアップ機能

English Support

Support How to reach itTickets/Chat The same URL but they respond you in

English if you ask in Englishhttps://support.joeswebhosting.net

Phone Phone # for English-only03-4530-9572 for 24/7

Face-to-Face English Speakers in Ginza and Umeda

The LMS server(will be open may 15, 2013)

For Worldwide Moodle users 1-year free account (Beginners’ Plan)$15/m (Standard Plan)Data center in Silicon Valley24/7 Tech Phone Support

Summary for Part-I (30mins)

• Use Moodle easily based on shared hosting services• Get a free Moodle 2.4 account now !

Check whether your 個人研究費 is left for Moodle Standard Plan (18,900 JPY/y). We will issue your account and then send an invoice to your school.

Part-II: rather technical (Osamu Ikehara, 15 mins)• Moodle 2.4 • Install Moodle in general LAMP environments.• Manage Moodle in Joe’s VPS (625 JPY/m)

Feel free to visit our booth Just ask us either in English or Japanese