[Trezoid]

It's used extensively in Australia too, and having recently gone through an university that uses it extensively for assignment submissions, out of class "discussions", and a few other things, and it's a terrible, broken platform.

The primary thing I was forced to use it for was assignment submission, which was primarily collections of source-code, compiled binaries and reports on them,so nothing overly large, though generally larger than the single word document I suspect the uploader was designed for, and it was horrible.

If your connection was somewhat poor the uploads sometimes randomly failed either reporting success or not reporting anything at all, sometimes it took hours to upload small files, and frequently you had to use chrome to upload, as the firefox uploader would simply fail. Even uploading from the university campus, from the same building the servers were hosted in the upload process was frequently so risky that some lecturers asked for the submission of source code in physical copies, as well as the digital submission, to ensure something got submitted they could look at.

I'd love for something better built to take over, but given how dominant moodle is in the market, I can't see it being shifted any time soon.

[ankitml]

It is possible that the server admin fucked your particular installation. Moodle is well tested and such a major functionality being broken is not possible. Moodle does eat up substantial amount of resources (CPU/RAM) but usually the sysad has to be smart enough to gauge resources according to expected concurrent users.