Moodle

I setup yet another Moodle server. This time from scratch. I bought a domain name and edited the DNS settings. I took an old Dell (1.6CPU 512RAM 40HD) and installed Ubuntu server 9.10 - LAMP server. I installed Moodle from the repository. Easiest setup I've ever had. I tried it with 10.04 - no luck. The only glitch was the fqdn. I corrected that in the config file and everything was happy. Now I'm looking forward to showing the teachers how to use it.

Remote Assistance

I just moved my Mail Server from one ISP to another and I knew some of my teachers would be calling because their email didn't work any more. I was going to do a 30 day trial of goto assist because of its great reviews but didn't want to deal with trying it with the school credit card. I kept looking and found TeamViewer. It's working great. When a teacher calls in asking how to get his/her email working, I can take over their computer and fix it for them.

1. have them Google teamviewer download and go to the page
2. talk them through downloading and running the small program - TeamViewr Quick Support
3. have them give you their id number and password