Add RACHEL USB on MoodleBox

Nicolas

Some tips to add RACHEL USB content to the MoodleBox:

Copy RACHEL USB on your USB stick (or external hard drive), and connect it to the MoodleBox.
Log into your MoodleBox, via SSH (help here: https://moodlebox.net/en/help/command-line-connection/)
Create a symlink your content on USB stick (or hard drive) to from /var/www/moodle/Rachel/, e.g. like this (type this in the terminal window): sudo ln -s /media/usb/RACHEL/ /var/www/moodle/rachel
Open your browser and go to moodlebox.home/Rachel
Enjoy your content 😀

Nkduodu

Nice.. Amazing things to do with Rachel & MoodleBox.

Nkduodu

I have created this oft link on my MoodleBox and i can access Rachel on the MBOX. thanks for the guide.
What command would i run if i wanted to add Rachel to the SDHC card that has the MOODLEBOX image? that way i don't use the usb drive. (thiking of installing Moodlebox on a 128GB SDHC card.

Nicolas

Nkduodu What command would i run if i wanted to add Rachel to the SDHC card

Well, it depends on where you'll copy RACHEL USB on you SD card. Say you copy it a the root of the default account, the command would be: sudo ln -s /home/moodlebox/RACHEL/ /var/www/moodle/Rachel.

Ian

Bit late to the party! But instead of expecting my students to access RACHEL via another "web site" I have built it into their course resources by adding an "external tool" activity. The tool address is the address given above: http://moodlebox.home/Rachel.
I do have it on a 128gb sd as suggested above - whole system works seamlessly.

Ratna

Ian I'm not too familiar with RACHEL, https://worldpossible.org/rachel speaks of 500 GB to 1 TB of space! Then I read inside about a Raspberry Pi version of 64 GB in size. That must be the one you loaded to MoodleBox.

Ian

Ratna Hi Ratna. I downloaded the Rachel USB as discussed above and then copied RACHEL to the moodlebox sd card into the /home/moodlebox/ directory. Followed the code as stated in Nicholas June 26 discussion.
When I tried the Rachel-pi (64gb) I found that I could only add the moodle as an option in Rachel not the other way around. (I'm not clever enough to recode it all)
By doing it my way, I force a log in to moodle first - then instead of logging in and out as they interact with material on the Rachel, I have a direct link which keeps them in Moodle - as mentioned above

geev03

Details (of the 64GB version) are here. The plus version of RACHEL is <100GB.
With the 'USB-MSD boot EEPROM update - 2020-05-28' , will not be the better to use Rpi4 MoodleBox booting from a suitable SSD with any version of RACHEL?