Budget

Budget:
Estimated costs, (Louisiana State University and A & M, 2007), for implementing and supporting Moodle Course Management System.

Moodle is an open source application, which merely means that you don't have to purchase the application, however, there are costs associated with it. The budget, below, separates the budget items into two main categories. The first category, non-recurring costs pertain to costs associated with implementing Moodle. There are $98,000 of recommended equipment purchases. Although our current servers have the capacity to implement Moodle, our IT department recommends that we purchase application and database servers now to accommodate future growth as well as for added data security. Also included in the initial year costs are $20,000 for training and $20,000 of additional costs associated with converting our current data into a Moodle compliant format.

The second budget category, recurring costs, consists of costs for annual training, support costs and the addition of System Administrator. Total annual cost are budgeted at $66,000.

Assumptions Made:
 * 1) Development of Moodle modules will be completed by current IT staff.
 * 2) New position of system administrator added to support application.
 * 3) Hosting and maintaining Moodle will be maintained in-house and not by a third party vendor.

__** Non-Recurring Costs **__ Yes/No || Optional? Yes/No || Comments ||
 * Description || Cost || Recuring?
 * Licensing per year || $0.00 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Application Server (High School) || $18,000 || No || Yes || For added security, recommend the purchase of two servers. ||
 * Application Server (Middle School) || $18,000 || No || Yes || For added security, recommend the purchase of two servers. ||
 * Database Servers || $32,000 || No || No ||  ||
 * Load Balancers || $30,000 || No || No ||  ||
 * **Total Equipment Costs** || **$98,000** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Training-initial year || $20,000 || No || No ||  ||
 * Data conversion/transition || $20,000 || No || No ||  ||
 * Total Non-recurring costs || $138,000 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ** __Recurring Costs__ ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Training || $4,000 || Yes || No ||  ||
 * Local Support Costs || $18,000 || Yes || No ||  ||
 * System Administrator || $44,000 || Yes || No || New position ||
 * Total Recurring Costs || $66,000 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Total Year 1 costs || $204,000 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Recurring costs || $66,000 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Total Year 1 costs || $204,000 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Recurring costs || $66,000 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Recurring costs || $66,000 ||  ||   ||   ||