Moodle Appliance

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

Main  Moodle Website -- http://moodle.org

I put the Moodle Appliance  together after having to install the software on a linux server myself after fighting with the install to get it the way I wanted it.  I knew after all of the trouble I had that not just any user could download Moodle and get it installed easily so why not create a version that any user could download and run without any complicated setup.

To create the  Moodle Appliance  I used rBuilder Online by rPath they allowed me to simply package and spin a custom Linux distribution focused around the  Moodle application. Another really cool feature of rBuilder Online is it allows me to serve the image in many formats:

Xen
Microsoft (R) VHD Virtual Server
VMware (R) Virtual Appliance
VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance
Installable CD/DVD
Demo CD/DVD (Live CD/DVD)
Amazon Machine Image

This gives the end user the ability to choose what image type best fits for them.

Download Images from the rPath rBuilder project site : http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/moodleappliance/

For Support with Moodle please see go to the main Moodle website -- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Main_Page
For support with the Appliance you can email me here -- Moodle Appliance Email