I am not finding this too easy to imagine. But...the main issue seems to be er, offline-ness...
It would be nice in some situations (e.g. prisions, or other areas where internet connections are scarcer - such as poorer countries) if Moodle could somehow allow more offline work, that is downloaded, done, and then uploaded.
As far as I know however, Moodle presupposes an internet connection and there is not a lot in the way of provision for offline work. I think that the moodle hotpot module may come closest to this to allowing offline testing. But I am not sure. I recommend that you give it a try.
However, I you might look at Moodle on a USB drive, or installing a Complete install packages on a local machine. Students would either upload the Scorm package or restore a backup of the course. My assumption is that this would be an asychronous course, where the student sends in assignments, or perhaps does a backup of their completed course and the instructor restores it to view their work. Seems a bit akward but possible.
SCORM governs online training only, and only between a single user and the system. Offline training does not apply, nor does group training.
So this is not a Moodle issue.
Hello,
The article is timely and throws more light on the features and future of Moodle. Moodle is now have a fit for Internet and Moodle is positioned for Countries with high broad band connection. I am one of those Moodlers constantly cautioning Moodle apostles to look for solutions to countries with low/no broad band connection.
I have already loaded moodle in USB drive and SD memory (for Mobile) to help the learners access contnet otherwise difficult due to bandwidth problem.
A time has come that Moodle developers need an introspection to find out a technology fit for Moodle to reach the unreached. Though Moodle is reported to be available in hundreds of countries and many languages the major users are from North America and western Europe. What about those countries including China to have Moodle in different Avatars. Moodle is very good in Linux and not so good in Windows. Moodle is available in many languages but English is the major one. Moodle is internet driven and yet to find a way to port itself to other appliances.
Nagarajan
The question here is what solution to chose. There are entire operating systems that can be installed on to a storage device that would represent a self contained envrionment for Moodle. Options include DSL (Damn Small linux), WOS (Web server on a stick). These represent ways to get a tiny LAMP stack onto a device and run php applications. These have their own supports issues but could be a very good and secure solution. Another option is to install the web server, db and moodle files on to the storage device and run them from there. An option for this route is XAMPP. This leaves the core files open to anyone who can access the storage device. It's main advantage is that it is already being used on USB hard drives for Moodle development and proving very useful.
Hello, my name is Yamilka Cue, I work and I'm also studying at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. In order to obtain my master degree another student (also a teacher for the University) and I are developing an offline Moodle client. Our program, hosted at www.jolongo.org (a moodle installation), allows users to keep their forums and some resources offline and answer to posts that will be synchronized with the Moodle server.
We are just synchronizing forums and the resources more often used in our Master's site, but we are planning to extend it to more Moodle's features.
The program, called Jolongo, will be freely available as a Moodle offline client for anybody wishes to use it. We are also planning to make the code (made with Adobe Air) open source.
I remember a presenter at the recent Educa Online Conference I attended who lamented the overwhelming number of java versions available to different mobile handsets. Supporting each individual version has become the bane of his companies life.
Rather than write our own client app and then have a new codebase to maintain I thought let's just package up Moodle so that we don't actually have any maintenance issues in this regard. All we have to do is keep up with the latest version of Moodle and then over lay the minimal Offline enabled code we have on to it. We then package it into a web server and database environment and create an installer (wndows and mac) or an install process (linux) and away we go.
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There are many situations where Internet connections are either poor or nonexistent but where Moodle could be used to advantage. But How? Local moodle installation on a school LAN or even down to a USB installation. How to do that. How to keep some kind of contact upwards/outwards.
Updated on Feb 06, 09
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