Technical bases of e-learning at Faculty of Electronic Engineering

1. Technical bases of e-learning at Faculty of Electronic Engineering Mr Vladimir Ćirić, mr Oliver Vojinović, Dipl. Ing. Dušan Vučković, mr Aleksandar Stanimirović

2. Outline • Implemented system’s components • Infrastructure and servers • Moodle components • Course example

3. E-learning system components • Hardware • Operating system • LMS • Course materials • Network infrastructure Courses LMS Net Operating system Hardware

4. Communication chanels Student 1 4. – collaboration Student 2 1 – learning Courses Student 3 LMS Net . . . Operating system 2. – consultations Hardware student 4 3. – monitoring, testing Teacher

5. Hardware IBM x3550 server IBM x3550 server IBM x3300 Storage

6. Hardware

10. Operating system VMware ESX VMware ESX

11. VMware infrastructure features • The major advanced features: • Hardware level virtualization – no based operating system license is needed, ESXi installs right on your hardware (bare metal installation). • VMFS file system. • SAN Support – connectivity to iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN storage, including features like boot from SAN • Local SATA storage support. • 64 bit guest OS support. • Network Virtualization – virtual switches, virtual NICs, QoS & port configuration policies, and VLAN. • Enhanced virtual machine performance – virtual machines may perform, in some cases, even better in a VM than on a physical server because of features like transparent page sharing and nested page table. • Virtual SMP – see advanced feature #4, below. • Support for up to 64GB of RAM for VMs, up to 32 logical CPUs and 256GB of RAM on the host.

12. VMware infrastructure features • VM High Availability (VMHA) • With 2 ESX Servers, a SAN for shared storage, Virtual Center, and a VMHA license, if a single ESX Server fails, the virtual guests on that server will move over to the other server and restart, within seconds. • VMotion • With VMotion, VM guests are able to move from one ESX Server to another with no downtime for the users. • VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) • VMware Consolidated Backup (or VCB) is a group of Windows command line utilities, installed on a Windows system, that has SAN connectivity to the ESX Server VMFS file system. With VCB, file level or image level backups and restores of the VM guests can be performed, back to the VCB server.

13. Servers VMware ESX VMware ESX

14. VMware Infrastructure

15. VMware Infrastructure

16. LMS platforms • Open source • Sakai • Moodle • ATutor • Claroline • Commercial platforms • Blackboard • WebCT • Desire2Learning

17. Lessons Forum Tests Assignments Chat Calendar Glossary Wiki Resources Tools supported by Moodle

18. Start page

19. User enrolment

20. Courses

21. Course example

22. Course example – outline

23. Course example - Lesson

24. Course example - Lesson

25. Course example - eXe

26. Course example - Glossary

27. Course example - Forum

28. Course example – Labs

29. Course example – Final test

30. Grading scale • 10% attendance • 40% e-learning lessons • 30% labs • 20% final test • Certificate >50%

31. Course example – Grade book

32. Concluding remarks • System is implemented on two x3550 servers equipped by data storage system • VMware “bare metal virtualization” was used • Moodle as a LMS was employed

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