Hosting Services: Moodle & Private Cloud

  • SWWC's Technology Department offers a variety of hosting solutions for your school or organization. All members of SWWC are automatically eligible for the services below at their stated prices as stated in the terms of your membership agreement. SWWC is not an E-Rate Eligible Service Provider, therefore E-Rate discounted pricing is not available for any of the services below. Contact Josh Sumption at josh.sumption@swwc.org if you have questions on hosting services.
     

    Private Cloud Data Centers

    SWWC members can take advantage of SWWC's over 40 years' experience in the operations of enterprise-scale data centers at affordable prices. Data center hosting is available to members of the SWWC Wide Area Network Consortium and other members that meet specific prerequisites required to participate in the service. Our private cloud data center model includes built-in disaster recovery replication. The included advanced backup solution includes replication to our backup data center facility and air-gapped offline backups for advanced ransomware protection. SWWC Cybersecurity services are also layered into all of our data center solutions, including 24/7 MDR protection and integration with SWWC Cybersecurity's SIEM and monitoring solutions.
     

    Moodle Hosting

    Moodle hosting is available to your school on a per-course or full district model. Under both models there are no restrictions to the number of students your course can have in each course. Hosted Moodle courses and Moodle Environments are intended for hybrid and blended course environments within your school district. Cross-district enrollment in an online course must be run through a Minnesota Department of Education Approved Online School. If you are an online school looking for Moodle hosting, please contact josh.sumption@swwc.org for details.

    For Moodle Course Hosting, SWWC will provide your teacher access to their course. Enrollments of students can be handled through manual, template imports or student self-enrollment with a customized enrollment key. Each unique course setup will be billed out separately and can be used for the extent of the school year.
    • Moodle Course Hosting: $85 per course annually (courses limited to 10 GB)

    For Moodle District Hosting customers, SWWC will provide you with a customized Moodle environment of your own, assist in integrating your Moodle environment with your Active Directory infrastructure and provide you with administrative access to your Moodle server. Your Moodle District Hosting service also includes Moodle 101 training for up to 20 teachers at your district. Mileage expenses incurred by SWWC traveling to the School to complete such training are included in the annual contract fee, but the School is responsible for other travel expenses that may be incurred. The School may purchase additional training at the School’s Technology Services rate. 
    • Moodle District Hosting:
      • $1,400 per district annually
      • plus $1.05 per student
      • Base package includes 100 GB, additional storage is $215 per 100 GB annually.