Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) was using a contracted 3rd party hosting provider (under a Platform-as-a-service model) to help solve capacity challenges with on premise hosting. The inability to scale the site on the physical infrastructure in use, coupled with the risks of downtime and disruption for students and staff, became a constant issue and concern. More requests were being generated by the business stakeholders and these requests along with additional functionality requirements were being denied.
The urgency was re-enforced (as for so many institutions) when, in March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, in the middle of the academic year. LIT had to quickly roll out a plan to move all staff and students to online teaching and learning through Moodle LMS, novelty Ireland degree. The significant task of moving onto the newest version of Moodle 3.9, training all staff on how to use the systems effectively and move from face to face to online delivery and migrate data into the newly provided Catalyst managed system was greatly supported by the speed, efficiency and technical abilities of the Catalyst team supporting LIT with the new system.
