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facilities that ensured service uptime of 99.995 per cent. Additionally, the Open Campus’s core compute moved to fully virtualised and centrally managed blade server systems connected to storage area networks and network attached systems.
Core Technology: Software Applications Pre-2017
The Open Campus ran its administrative and teaching systems primarily on open source software. This included Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Drupal, Moodle. The OCMS was built using open source tools and frameworks. Microsoft Active Directory was deployed as the user account directory for the Campus.
Core Technology: Software Applications Update
With the availability of funding from the SDEC project, the Open Campus purchased and deployed the Ellucian Banner system to replace the OCMS. Also purchased were additional tools and systems to help match Banner to the Open Campus business processes, including eVisions and Campus EAI portal. An upgrade to the Moodle platform also ensured the doubling in capacity, through resource optimisation.
Updates and Upgrades: Post Initial Accreditation SAR (2012)
2015 Migration to a Tier IV data centre, and establishment of disaster recovery data centre. Improved connectivity and bandwidth.
2017 Migration from OCMS to Elucian Banner (and other supporting applications) as SIS
Annual update of Moodle to most recent stable version, 2.0 to 3.4.2 (2011 to 2018). Development and deployment of MEDUSA (Moodle Enhanced Deployment Unified Service Architecture) (2014). Annual optimisation of LMS resource usage
Deployment and annual update of Eportofolio platform, Mahara, 1.5 to 17 (2014 to 2018).