Managed Moodle hosting
Moodle hosting in Guyana, looked after for you.
A Moodle site for your school or lessons centre in Guyana, set up with your subjects and kept running by us: hosting, backups, updates and security. Nobody on your staff has to become a server administrator.
Running Moodle yourself
Moodle is free. Running it is not.
Anyone can download Moodle. What a school takes on with it is a job: a server to keep up, upgrades to apply, backups to take and records to protect. In most schools it ends up being nobody’s job, and that is how a school site goes out of date and stops being used.
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A server, and someone watching it
Moodle needs a web server, a database and background tasks that run on a schedule. When one of them stops, parts of the site quietly stop with it.
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Upgrades that cannot wait for ever
Moodle and its plugins release new versions and security fixes through the year. A site left alone for a year falls behind, and a site that is behind is a risk.
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Backups, kept somewhere else
Courses, marks and a year of handed-in work. If the only copy is on the machine that failed, it is gone.
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Security, because it holds children’s records
Logins for students, marks and contact details for parents. Somebody has to keep the doors shut.
Managed Moodle hosting
What you get from Doctrina.
A customised Moodle learning platform, built around the NGSA and CSEC syllabuses, that we set up for you and look after from then on.
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Set up around your school
Your subjects laid out by term, and logins for students, parents and teachers. Ready to use in a few weeks.
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Your material moved across, once
The notes, worksheets and past papers you already have, brought in at the start so nobody begins from an empty site.
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Hosting, backups, updates and security
All kept with us from then on. Nobody on your staff has to become a Moodle administrator.
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Everything a teacher uses day to day
Quizzes that mark themselves, assignments handed in online, one gradebook, badges and certificates, forums and live classes.
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Readiness reporting, built in
The part plain Moodle does not have. It reads the papers students sit and says who is ready for NGSA and CSEC, and who is not yet.
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Built for the connections students have
Papers are sat online, and built to hold up on poor and unstable connections.
Side by side
Doing it yourself, or having it run for you.
| Task | Running it yourself | With Doctrina |
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| The server | You arrange it and keep it running | Ours to run |
| Moodle and plugin updates | Someone on your staff | Us |
| Backups | Someone on your staff | Us |
| Security | Someone on your staff | Us |
| Courses and logins | Built by your staff | Set up by us at the start |
| NGSA and CSEC readiness reporting | Not part of standard Moodle | Built in |
| Your content and data | Yours | Yours, and you can take it with you |
Why Moodle at all
It is open source and used by universities around the world. A student who learns on it at school walks into first year already knowing the system, and because it is open source, nothing about your courses is tied to us.
Questions
What people ask first.
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How long does it take to set up?
A few weeks from the first conversation. We set up your subjects and everyone’s logins, and move the material you already have across once at the start.
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Do we need anyone technical on staff?
No. Hosting, backups, updates and security stay with us. Your teachers need to know how to teach with it, not how to run it.
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Who owns the courses and the student records?
You do. You own the content and the data, nothing is locked in, and you can take it with you.
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Will it work for students on a weak connection?
Papers are sat online and built to hold up on poor and unstable connections, because that is the connection plenty of students have.
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We already use Google Classroom. Do we have to move to Moodle?
No. If what you run works for you, keep it. We connect the readiness reporting to it instead of replacing it.
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How much does Moodle hosting cost?
It depends on how many students you have and what you teach. Tell us both and we will tell you what it would cost.
Talk to us
Bring one class,
one paper, one afternoon.
Tell us what you teach and how many students you have. We will show you the system set up with your own subjects in it, and what a readiness report looks like.
Doctrina Education builds and runs learning platforms for schools and tutors in Guyana and across the Caribbean, for the NGSA and CSEC syllabuses as they are actually examined.