Reflections on Learning Management Cloud
On June 1 2016, Cybera officially transferred the operations of the Learning Management Cloud (LMC) to the University of Alberta. This was a [...]
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Alberta Educator’s First Major Shared Service Passes the Test
When over 53,000 students at three of Alberta’s post-secondary institutions went online this month to register for courses and communicate with their teachers, [...]
ElasticSearch cluster rebuild
A group of us at Cybera have been using the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) for about a year and a half, and for the most part its been great. [...]
Cloud workshop sparks discussion among municipalities
The prairies chapter of the Municipal Information Systems Association of Canada (MISA) hosted its fall workshop on ‘Shortening the distance to the cloud’ [...]
Introduction to Logstash: Getting Started
In today’s blog let’s take a closer look at what Logstash is. We’ll also get our hands dirty and set up a very simple Logstash instance (on a single machine) and start pulling in some logs. [...]
Introduction to Logstash: Case Study
There is a vast treasure trove of information hiding inside the log files on your servers, but visualizing and exploring such a large amount of textual data can be difficult. [...]
Alberta’s education cloud passes the test
In the biggest test of the Learning Management Cloud since its development in 2012, over 70,000 students went on to the system at the same time in September, without any lags in performance. [...]
NorQuest College is fourth institution to join Alberta’s education cloud
NorQuest College has joined the University of Alberta, NAIT and Athabasca University in a pilot project to share their learning management systems, Moodle, as a cloud-based system. [...]
More campuses move learning management to the cloud
The University of Alberta and NAIT have teamed up to develop a shared pool of computing resources, called a cloud, for hosting their learning management systems, in this case Moodle. [...]
Marrying education and the cloud
It’s only been a year since I graduated, but in that time, three major institutions have done a major overhaul of their learning management systems (LMS). [...]