Supporting Multi-Tenancy

This chapter discusses different approaches to designing and implementing multi-tenancy in Moodle. If any of the following scenarios are of interest, then this chapter is for you:

• An authority representing multiple schools or colleges in a region or country wishes to provide each school or college with a separate Moodle system but needs to manage the systems centrally
• A private training organization with multiple customers, each needing its own walled area
• A company that has regional offices, each requiring its own learning space

First, we will provide an overview of what multi-tenancy is and why there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution before we present three different types of implementations.

The first approach, multi-tenancy via categories, uses a single Moodle instance with specifically tailored course categories and permissions.

The second implementation, multi-tenancy via a centralized code base, provides separate...