Moodle
What is Moodle?
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). Moodle is open source software and is available in over 50 languages, including Te Reo Maori.
Catalyst Moodle services
Catalyst IT offers top-of-the-line Moodle services:
- We have a dedicated team working on Moodle and related e-learning tools.
- Our customers are running the largest Moodle installations in terms of scale on a dedicated High Availability cluster with Disaster Recovery facilities.
- We are at the forefront of integration with webmail services, Student Management Systems, LDAP/ActiveDirectory/NDS and external library services.
Moodle hosting
Catalyst offers hosting for organisations of all sizes from schools to large polytechnics, universities and corporates.
With a 100MB link, multiple layers of firewalls, uninterruptible power, disaster recovery assurance through replicated server environments, and automatic site monitoring tools we can ensure that your application is serving your learners at all times.
Moodle installation and integration
We can get your Moodle up and running, manage and support it remotely. Are you trying to integrate your Learning Management System with another system in your local environment? We provide the glue to get the best out of your ICT investments.
Moodle development and support
Is there a specific functionality you would like added to Moodle?
The Catalyst team are trusted developers within the Moodle community. We have the expertise and experience with Moodle to write customised code or help build a new feature for the main Moodle distribution.
We can help design the best architecture to ensure peace of mind and low cost of ownership. Catalyst also offers full design services for your own custom theme design for your learning environment.
Moodle clusters
If you are already running Moodle, we can help you migrate to a highly scalable cluster, or help you tune your existing installation. If you are serious about scalability and high availability, we are the ideal partner to help run a cluster: we run many clusters for customers with these requirements.
"As recognised by TEC, 'code mobility' via open source communities holds great promise for an economically sustainable ICT investment pathway for New Zealand education. Early on in the planning stage of the New Zealand Virtual Learning Environment project we recognised the need for a development team with a track record of delivering complex Internet based applications using open source technology. Note only that, but we needed a team with a culture of collaboration and focused on delivering value. That's a pretty hard ask – so we feel very lucky that we've got Catalyst on board – they're brilliant to work with and they’re helping us take open source in education to a new level.
Richard Wyles
Project Manager – NZOSVLE project
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
Moodle Partners +
Our team is part of the development effort behind Moodle, with understanding of upcoming features and the ability to customize and enhance Moodle to the max. We have been "release managers" for the 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 releases, and contributed key features for the 1.5 release. You will find us involved in open discussion with Martin Dougiamas and many other developers, designing and debugging the next version of Moodle.
Moodle Conferences
Catalyst's Moodle development team are frequent contributors to Moodle conferences, both here in New Zealand and overseas. The slides of these presentations are available as PDFs.
Contact [Mike O'Connor] to talk about how we can help.