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It’s easy to think that online courses are simple to put together. After all, you just need to compile your content and assessment, and put them in the course, right? Wrong....

In this second part of our mini series on Mahara history, we look at how features and other improvements make it into the software.

This first post in the Mahara ePorftolio series looks at personal learning environment (PLE) integration with other assessment tools.

An outline of the core backup capabilities of Moodle, along with other hardware and cloud options available to you, and when to consider them.

Explore disaster recovery and how cloud managed services can provide a robust, cost effective solution for your organisation's online education services.

A look at why an MSP's approach to managing backups is valuable, this post shares how our own managed services for Moodle LMS supports backups and data retention.

Aside from the primary reason for commissioning custom software development, here's a look at some sigificant incremental benefits.

Data recovery and data recovery planning is the key to maintaining business continuity. This post explores incidents that can affect your data, how important backups are and the...

Lists of 'top' programming languages are prolific. With all the choice in application development languages, here's some tips to help you determine your selection criteria.

Since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, online learning delivery has become an imperative for universities. This post looks at the top 5 e-learning priorities.

This post reveals how the Catalyst Team transformed a set of Moodle LMS platforms AND reduced costs by 50%.

Integration is one of the most important aspects of designing an LMS solution. It will streamline processes, improve productivity, vastly improve the student UX, and ultimately...