MoodleBox plugin was just updated with #Moodle 5 compatibility. Check Moodle plugins database: https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_moodlebox Thanks to @nmartignoni #MoodleBox

“MathJax fonts do not load if loaded from local hosted instance, with Moodle 5 only”

This was an issue that would particularly affect #MoodleBox a custom distribution of #Moodle that is aimed at sites without an internet connection..
It was reported 4 days ago, it is now fixed.

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-85155

If you are a fan of #MoodleBox (#Moodle on the #RaspberryPi ). Voting for this issue on the Moodle 5 tracker for locally loading MathJax will help with allowing MoodleBox to upgrade to 5.

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-85155

#MoodleBox 4.9.0 is out with #Moodle 4.5.3+ LTS! Install it via #RaspberryPi Imager tool. Thanks @nmartignoni https://moodlebox.net/en/news/version-4.9.0/ #openedtech #OER

Introducing MoonPiLlama

Adam Jenkins has made a Youtube video showing how to install #MoodleBox and Ollama on a Raspberry Pi4. MoodleBox is a custom distribution of #Moodle specifically for the Raspberry Pi. However the Moodle part includes good information on generally how to get Ollama and Moodle to work together. It also includes gratuitous use of a yellow rubber duck
(Yes Pi 4 not Pi 5).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQfzhJJFPM&t=1253s

I have been trying out the Raspberry Pi 4 hosting from Mythic Beasts
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/
My configuration is
#RaspberryPi 4 4x2GHz, 8GB RAM, 4T/month with 8GB Disk space and is £16.92 per month (cheaper per quarter or year).

I installed #Moodle with #NginX and Mariadb and ran the Benchmark tool
https://moodle.org/plugins/report_benchmark

It returned 474 points and with the disk as a bottleneck. Performance seemed acceptable for the trivial tasks I have done so far.
#Education #GPL #Edtech #MoodleBox @beasts

#MoodleBox is a custom version of #Moodle aimed at the #RaspberryPi and so suited for low resource situations. A common question is “what about performance”, or “how many students can be on it at once”. The project Maintainer Nicolas Martignoni has given a detailed response to a question about this here.

https://discuss.moodlebox.net/d/481-best-practices-for-optimizing-moodlebox-performance

I was particularly interested in the response about #WiFi

We appreciate the people who make MoodleCloud reliable for our work. We couldn't do it without them. https://moodle.com/news/sabier-moodlecloud-literacy-in-africa/ #Moodle #moodleBox #OER #MoodleCloud

Our paper about the Sopala project is now available on the MIT Open Learning site as part of the AI and Open Education Initiative collection. https://aiopeneducation.pubpub.org/pub/7npwm2su/release/4?readingCollection=06969c6d #OER #MoodleBox #Moodle @nmartignoni and others

I have made a video clip running #ollama and the #sgemma:2b model on my 16GB #RaspberryPi which also has #MoodleBox, a custom version of the #Moodle Virtual Learning Environment running at the same time.

Nicolas Martignoni https://fosstodon.org/@nmartignoni@tooting.ch maintainer of the MoodleBox project (Moodle on a Raspberry Pi) https://fosstodon.org/@moodlebox@openedtech.social project has updated the report in the #MoodleBox repository to recognise the new 16GB model.

I will continue to explore any performance implications of the additional ram both for MoodleBox and associated #Moodle related software.

#Moodlebox on #RaspberryPi 5 16GB works

I swapped the 8GB board for the new 16GB board. I re-assembled and restarted with the same microSD card and it worked as expected. That is based on about 5 minutes of testing.

My #RaspberryPi 5 with 16Gb is due to be delivered to me today. My first job once it is in a case will be to check out #Moodle with #MoodleBox

Who would pay $120 for a #RaspberryPi ?

Jeff Geerling asked this question on this Youtube video (thanks for the link @wisecat).
I suspect the extra RAM will be useful for #MoodleBox especially if running the #STACK question type along with the #Goemaxima back end. The #Moodle quiz engine on its own is quite resource hungry. Apparently the PI5 with 16GB I ordered today is already “in the post”. I consider Mr Geerling to be rather excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apWi16EROKc

Just ordered a #RaspberryPI 16GB. The 16GB version was announced today, only 8GB was available previously. I will install #MoodleBox on it. MoodleBox is a customised #Moodle distribution specifically for the Raspberry PI.

For anyone intersted in running the #STACK #Moodle #question type on the #RaspberryPi
based #MoodleBox, I have added a wiki page to my repo which briefly explains what I did

https://github.com/marcusgreen/moodle-qtype_stack/wiki

This animation shows a #Moodle quiz using the #STACK #Maths question type on a #MoodleBox . The #GoeMaxima back end is running under docker on the same machine which is a #RaspberryPi 5 with 8GB of ram.

#MoodleBox is a custom distribution of the #Moodle #VLE designed to work on the #RaspberryPi. I have it on a 8GB RaspberryPi 5 and the performance with me tinkering is very impressive.

https://moodlebox.net

Although it is “stock moodle” it has some system tools specific to the platform. One that recently delighted me was the check of undervoltage. I was running it from a standard USB source and it needs something more powerful for real world usage. It displayed this message.