Visvanath Ratnaweera

> an overview written for the 'Ivory Tower' folks ... one liner suffices

Yes, the phrase is, "Explain like I'm five". The devils are for the working class.

> The teacher of the course has shared he estimates has spent over 4000 hours building question banks for his three courses.

To abandon that he must have strong reasons. Do you have an idea? Our "executives" are possibly listening (suddenly grown up).

Executive summary: There is interest in migrating from Moodle to Canvas.

If you must, then you must.

Maybe you're luckier or fitter than some who fall at those hurdles. If you fall, you can always come back.

 

Well the obvious. Every version has an Upgrading document. Follow them, if nothing else, the first three items!

In each release notes there is a section called Server requirements that shows the earliest version. For example, https://moodledev.io/general/releases/3.11 tells Moodle upgrade: Moodle 3.6 or later. You may double-check against this chart http://www.syndrega.ch/blog/#php-and-dbms-compatibility-of-major-moodle-releases/.

Note that you need to march dependent software like PHP and the DBMS in parallel. See the same chart.

If I do it, I would take the "LTS path. They are well-tested due to the long life time.

- 3.7.? > 3.7 final (which is 3.7.9)
- 3.7.9 > 3.9 LTS final (which is 3.9.25)
- 3.9.25 > 4.1 LTS final (which is 4.1.22)
- 4.1.22 > 4.5 LTS last (which is 4.5.11, still supported)

Will take a long, long pause there. Firstly 4.5 LTS is supported till October 2027. Secondly, there are some hurdles to jump going to 5.x. So you can take time to practice it. The owners of the site can't be suddenly in a great hurry, if they are still running a 3.7 - first released May 2019!

At a first glance Filesystem repository sounds promising. But a quick check shows the link will be something like mysite/pluginfile.php/766/mod_resource/content/2/my-music%40abcd-20260303-0312.mp4. So unlikely that you'll generate the list in Excel.

The easiest is to host them on a normal web server. Then you'll have links like othersite/upload/my-music%40abcd-20260303-0312.mp4, which suits Excel better.