Canvas LMS VS Mahara

I did not realize that Canvas is open source. That's an LMS most people like. You have hosting space and server-side savvy, you could set that up: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms

Canvas go brrrrrrrr

Also look at Canvas.

github.com/instructure/canvas-lms (745k lines): A popular LMS (learning management system).

No it's not. From a practical standpoint, I'm not even sure how that could work. You would have to require all browsers to be open source AGPL in order to load a web page served by it. By way of analogy it seems the equivalent of requiring the mouse and keyboard firmware to be licensed the same as the operating system.

A real life example is Instructure, which makes Canvas (which is agpl) but has other proprietary services that interact heavily with it. It's never been a problem

1: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms

Look into Canvas LMS, I would recommend using 8GB RAM and at least 4 vCores. I have used it in the past (`2 years ago) and only had issues with cloning class/course templates.

If you're planning on doing this as business though, bear in mind this is a pretty crowded market. There's already at least one Rails-based LMSes out there (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms), and dozens in PHP-land.

There is also Canvas.

My past experience had me working for a major UK university and specialist school Internet Service Provider (ages 4-18) which included provision of services like Moodle LMS, and Mahara eLearning Portfolio, where I was also a contributor.