Stand Alone Moodle (SAM)
Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS) that allows
educators to create online courses and manage learning activities. A
stand-alone Moodle installation refers to a Moodle installation that is
not integrated with any other system or platform. By the end of 2012, a
project team was awarded a $AUD 217,000 funding from the Australian
government’s Office for Learning and Teaching Innovation and Development
to further develop Stand Alone Moodle (Farley & Doyle, 2014). In the
PLEIADES new initiative, it took two USQ ICT Services workers a day to
deploy the server software, the most recent instance of Moodle, and the
TPP7120 course on the correctional Center education server. This was
deemed unrealistic if SAM was to be expanded to other correctional
facilities in the future. The goal of ”From Access to Success” was to
automate most of the server software, Moodle instance, and course
installation. SAM can be installed from a DVD, and the course instance
can be uploaded from another DVD. Correctional center education
personnel can easily uninstall the previous semester’s course, update
SAM, and install the new course from the DVDs by following a few basic
instructions. This process takes roughly thirty minutes, which is a
major improvement over the time it takes USQ ICT workers to accomplish
the duties in situ.