Moodle

I'm pretty pumped. I got Moodle working on my Mac. Moodle is a free, open source software that helps teachers develop effective online learning communities. Teachers can post assignments, moderate forums, oversee wiki projects, post their notes, etc.

Installation was a breeze on a Mac. There are some instructions on this page on how to allow others access to your moodle page.

First you have to open the firewall for MAMP. It's really easy to do this. Open the System Preferences from the Apple menu and go to Sharing. Here you must open the menu Firewall. For MAMP you have to configurate a new filter rule. Click on New..., choose Other in the first field, enter the tcp port number 8888 into the second field and click OK. Look a the attached picture and you will see everything.

With this easy thing you open the firewall of your Mac so other computer can ask for an internet page on port 8888.

On Second you have to change your Moodle configuration so your Moodle server can answer for the question of another computer. Please open the configuration file /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/moodle/config.php with a text editor and change only the following line

old: $CFG->wwwroot = 'http://localhost:8888/moodle';
new: $CFG->wwwroot = 'http://192.168.0.250:8888/moodle';

In my case my server has the ip address 192.168.0.250. You must use your own ip address. if you don't know the current number you have to look into the network configuration. Open the System Preferences again, go to Network, and see the ip number of your computer.

And I have a book.

I haven't played around with it very much but it looks promising. I'll tell you how it goes.