Martin Dougiamas

3Mb? That seems very high! I'm seeing about 300k uncompressed on a vanilla Moodle site with all AJAX on, of which about 117k is CSS (measured using Yslow for Firebug).

Perhaps it would best to think about this in terms of a generic report generator ... I think there's some open source ones around and one could be customised for Moodle, or a Moodle plugin would communicate directly to an external one.

Of course finding the best one to start with would be part of the project

Some examples of report generators :

• http://www.hkvstore.com/phpreportmaker/
• http://phpreports.sourceforge.net/
• http://jasperforge.org/plugins/project/project_home.php?group_id=102
  

Ah, I just saw Matt's post ... yes, exactly.

I added a FAQ for this: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Chat_module_FAQ

You can also use Skype or some other separate solution (audio/video conferencing doesn't need to be integrated in Moodle).

From the FAQ:

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Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

1. Dimdim - full audio/video conferencing http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=932
2. Elluminate Live - full audio/video conferencing http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=557
3. Wimba - full audio/video conferencing http://www.wimba.com/products/moodle_integration/
4. Marratech - full audio/video conferencing http://docs.moodle.org/en/Emeeting_module
5. Nanogong - for recorded audio http://gong.ust.hk/nanogong/moodle.html

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As long as you prepared for some features to not work, then you could get it to install by editing admin/environment.xml and changing this line to 5.2.6:

<PHP version="5.2.8" level="required">

Or just install it on a local desktop or notebook instead ... I assume you realise that is an incomplete version for developers and not suitable for production use!