#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
Thinking about our friends in Bern, who are behind the #Lernstick project, decided to try #MoodleBox to set up an offline-first learning environment. We can has Raspi shell! #datahackdaysuri
@marcusgreen @moodlebox nice video, Adam! #moodlebox
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).
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
B. White presenting a workshop on #MoodleBox at #MootJP25 in Kyoto Japan. @moodle
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.
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
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.
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.
#MoodleBox 4.8.0 is out with #Moodle 4.5+ and remote access via Raspberry Pi Connect. Install it via #RaspberryPi Imager tool! Thanks @nmartignoni https://moodlebox.net/en/news/version-4.8.0/ #openedtech #OER
AI On the #RaspberryPI
https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-ai-kit
“The Raspberry Pi AI Kit bundles an M.2-format Hailo 8L AI accelerator with the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ to provide an accessible, cost-effective, and power-efficient way to integrate high-performance AI with the Raspberry Pi 5."
£65.7 incl. VAT (coming soon)
Could it accelerate systems like #Ollama ? as I am interested in having a Pi 5 running as a “Sidecar” to offer AI services to #MoodleBox (#Moodle on the Pi)
