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by sireat 1678 days ago
I teach 15-30 sized courses to adults but I also teach at a university.

My solution - I installed Moodle on a cheap Hetzner VPS.

Added Let's encrypt for SSL and it seems to work pretty well for 100ish students.

I looked at alternatives but there really wasn't anything better that is open source.

The critical factor - all the universities that I've taught at and also know of at use Moodle.

Thus preserving the lessons, quizzes, exams, pages, etc. was quite important.

I was able to migrate my courses from older Moodle versions(3.7) at university to my own latest version (3.11) with no issues.

One thing I have not done yet is set up mail.

How well does e-mail from Hetzner IPs get through to gmail (what most students use)?