Technical support in lecture halls and seminar rooms

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:31:08 +0200

For technical support in lecture halls and seminar rooms please contact the Multimedia Support for ETH Zentrum:

Phone: +41 44 632 2117
E-mail: mms-is-hg@id.ethz.ch

Moreover various video adapters (e.g. USB-C to HDMI) and presenters can be collected and returned independently at the Mathematics Library (HG G 7); these can be found behind the counter in a drawer labelled “ISG D-MATH”.

Also note: almost all rooms at ETH already have a built-in beamer. The following website gives you some info about what’s installed in a room: https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en/service/rooms-and-buildings/roominfo.html

Moodle Development Environment

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:25:07 +0200

Develop moodle

Resources:

The following setup can be used to set up a moodle development environment, with rootless podman:

# D-MATH link podman-compose
ln -s /usr/bin/podman-compose ~/bin/docker-compose

# D-MATH clone moodle-docker repo
git clone https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-docker.git
cd moodle-docker

# D-MATH set variables
export MOODLE_DOCKER_DB_PORT=15432
export MOODLE_DOCKER_APP_VERSION=18080
export MOODLE_DOCKER_SELENIUM_VNC_PORT=15900
export MOODLE_DOCKER_WEB_PORT=18000

# Change ./moodle to your /path/to/moodle if you already have it checked out
export MOODLE_DOCKER_WWWROOT=./moodle

# D-MATH add custom configuration
cat <<EOF > local.yml
services:
 webserver:
 volumes:
 - "${MOODLE_DOCKER_WWWROOT}/../moodledata:/var/www/moodledata"
 db:
 environment:
 PGDATA: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
 volumes:
 - "${MOODLE_DOCKER_WWWROOT}/../database:/var/lib/postgresql/data"
EOF

# Choose a db server (Currently supported: pgsql, mariadb, mysql, mssql, oracle)
export MOODLE_DOCKER_DB=pgsql

# D-MATH creating files with group access for moodle code
umask 007

# Get Moodle code, you could select another version branch (skip this if you already got the code)
git clone -b MOODLE_404_STABLE git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git $MOODLE_DOCKER_WWWROOT

# D-MATH add folder for moodle data
mkdir moodledata
mkdir database

# D-MATH setgid for automatic setting group permission
chmod 2770 moodle
chmod 2770 moodledata
chmod 2770 database

# Ensure customized config.php for the Docker containers is in place
cp config.docker-template.php $MOODLE_DOCKER_WWWROOT/config.php

# D-MATH set the permission to 33 inside the container for moodle code
podman unshare chown 33 -R moodle
podman unshare chown 33 -R moodledata
podman unshare chown 999 -R database

# Start up containers, choose docker.io to download the images
bin/moodle-docker-compose up -d

# Shut down and destroy containers
#bin/moodle-docker-compose down

Above we set the webserver port to 18000 so this means you now need to connect to http://localhost:18000 in your browser to see the application.

Write Multiple Choice Exams

Wed, 17 May 2023 10:55:46 +0200

You can find documentation, an F.A.Q, examples and some additional resources about Auto Multiple Choice (AMC) here:

https://gitlab.math.ethz.ch/teaching/amc-howto

Teaching on ISG Blog · D-MATH

Technical support in lecture halls and seminar rooms

Moodle Development Environment

Develop moodle

Write Multiple Choice Exams