The videos are full of detail, and I found that if I changed the settings of the video (using the “gear” icon) to 1.5x normal speed, I could more rapidly listen to the explanations, pausing the video for places where I needed to track down specific details. They show how to download and install both MAMP and Moodle. Many thanks to Aaron Tweeton for his YouTube screencasts (7 short videos, which took me about 1 hour to follow), which I’ve embedded below. Pre-installing MAMP on attendee machines will allow participants to work in the class at full speed, and without an internet connection. I’ll be delivering a 1/2 day session at the STC Summit on May 15, 2016, showing how to create Moodle courses. WordPress has their own set of clients for different OS, but I haven’t gotten their Mac client successfully set up yet. Search the web for free and paid desktop blogging client applications available for your operating system. Translation: I’m writing this post via the WordPress online editor. Unfortunately, I prefer to write on my Mac system, so I’m still looking for a Mac desktop client that I like.

I have experimented with a few of these, and find that Windows LiveWriter is about the cleanest one around, and also free. For this you need a desktop blogging client. MAMP will not let you write WordPress posts offline and publish to your live site. MAMP helps you run products like WordPress that rely heavily on databases and servers. I can also work on “regular” websites on my local machine using Dreamweaver or other tools without fussing with FTP until I’m ready to update. For me, that means I can develop content on Moodle and WordPress on my local machine. MAMP lets you run web-based applications on your local computer, without internet access.

P for PHP, Perl, or Python, all programming languages used for web development.

MAMP is a solution stack composed of free and open-source and proprietary commercial software used together to run dynamic web sites on Apple Macintosh computers. (bullets added to improve readability): MAMP Defined If you found this via Google, you probably don’t need an explanation of what MAMP is, or what you use it for.įor the rest of us, Wikipedia is probably the best place to go for a description

If you have an hour or so to invest in a better experience, I recommend installing MAMP or another local server technology like WAMP, LAMP, depending on whether you’re on a MAC, Windows, or Linux OS. Along with the physical time required to communicate across networks, it just takes the flow (and thus, most of the joy) out of the work. Personally, I get tired of waiting for server-based products like Moodle when I have to save and update content.

Setting up mamp server