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1.1     ! albertel    1: > 	I guess I'm already at an impasse again here. The burning question
        !             2: > is this: how do I create course content and assemble it?
        !             3: 
        !             4: That is a good question. :-)
        !             5: 
        !             6: We have not had time yet to put together a default course or even a
        !             7: tutorial yet. Some of the things you might need to do we just wrote
        !             8: last week. :-)
        !             9: 
        !            10: So I guess I will start a tutorial here.
        !            11: 
        !            12: Some background info first:
        !            13: 
        !            14: http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/~lucas/ and 
        !            15: http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/priv/lucas/ goes to
        !            16: 
        !            17: /home/lucas/public_html/
        !            18: 
        !            19: (I just created the directory
        !            20: /home/lucas/public_html/
        !            21: and
        !            22: /home/lucas/public_html/Testing
        !            23: 
        !            24: I also added www to the lucas group)
        !            25: 
        !            26: (I did the same with rmcqueen)
        !            27: 
        !            28: The need to make an author isn't something that has come up that
        !            29: often yet. . . and thus has no interface.
        !            30: 
        !            31: - When you make a resource in a map, refer to it as 
        !            32: /res/ohiou/lucas/whatever_you_have_named_it
        !            33: this where it will be published.
        !            34: 
        !            35: Do not put a http://machinename/ where I didn't mention one.
        !            36: 
        !            37: > 	I've created a course. I have received a nice long name
        !            38: > identifying the course.
        !            39: > 
        !            40: > 	I go into /adm/roles and try to put on my course coordinator hat
        !            41: > and it conks out trying to get into /adm/.
        !            42: 
        !            43: Yep that is because when you specified the course you specfied a
        !            44: toplevel map that doesn't yet exist. (I'll pretend it was
        !            45: /res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/start.sequence)
        !            46: 
        !            47: > 	What I'd like to try is the following: create 3 pages of text and
        !            48: > link them. I have the General Overview from the Web to give some context.
        !            49: > Are there a few quick pointers you could toss this way?
        !            50: > 
        !            51: > * Can I create the content with a tool, or do I place an html somewhere.
        !            52: >    If so, where?
        !            53: 
        !            54: There isn't a pretty way to create most types of content yet. Just
        !            55: dump them in /home/lucas/public_html/
        !            56: 
        !            57: > * how do I publish the pages?
        !            58: 
        !            59: I'll pretend you have created
        !            60: /home/lucas/public_html/Testing/page1.html
        !            61: /home/lucas/public_html/Testing/page2.html
        !            62: /home/lucas/public_html/Testing/page3.html
        !            63: somehow.
        !            64: 
        !            65: Goto
        !            66: 
        !            67: http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/priv/lucas/Testing/page1.html
        !            68: 
        !            69: Click on the "Publish Resource" button up top.
        !            70: 
        !            71: Fill in the metadata (especially the name field), click on the button
        !            72: at the bottom "Finalize Publication"
        !            73: 
        !            74: - this resource is now published as
        !            75:    /res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page1.html
        !            76: 
        !            77: - repeat for page2.html and page3.html
        !            78: 
        !            79: > * How do I tell the rat which course I'm working on?
        !            80: 
        !            81: Context. :-)
        !            82: 
        !            83: > * How do I officially access the RAT?
        !            84: 
        !            85: In the system the problem is inverted. The system is URL driven, so
        !            86: type in the URL of waht you would like to edit. (In this case the
        !            87: sequence file
        !            88: http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/priv/lucas/Testing/start.sequence)
        !            89: 
        !            90: The system detects that you want to edit a sequence and fires up the
        !            91: rat, it will also detect that the file doesn't yet exist, and will
        !            92: create it. Eventually it should do this with any common resource type.
        !            93: 
        !            94: Play a round wwith the rat click on various objects and read the
        !            95: prompts it puts up it should be fairly straight forward. (Plus you
        !            96: have seen it done before. :-)
        !            97: 
        !            98: I suggest resource 1 to be:
        !            99: Title: The first resource
        !           100: URL:/res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page1.html
        !           101: I suggest resource 2 to be:
        !           102: Title: The second resource
        !           103: URL:/res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page2.html
        !           104: I suggest resource 3 to be:
        !           105: Title: The third resource
        !           106: URL:/res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page3.html
        !           107: I suggest resource 4 to be:
        !           108: Title: A problem from guy
        !           109: URL:/res/103/albertel/cd468a.problem
        !           110: 
        !           111: Once you have created a map that you are happy with and have hit
        !           112: "Store" you can publish it. (Use the "Publish Resource" button again)
        !           113: 
        !           114: (Don't forget to "Store" until you do nothing has really been saved.)
        !           115: 
        !           116: Once you publish this map, take off you Course Coordinator hat (if it
        !           117: is on) and put back on.
        !           118: 
        !           119: Things should work better.
        !           120: 
        !           121: Also try clicking on the "Nav" button on the remote control.
        !           122: 
        !           123: http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/adm/parmset
        !           124: can be used to set parmaters for homework
        !           125: 
        !           126: > * Once the course is set up, how do I access it as a student?
        !           127: 
        !           128: In http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/adm/createuser as Course Coordinator you
        !           129: can give yourself the "student" hat.
        !           130: 
        !           131: You can also create another user and make them a student in your
        !           132: course.
        !           133: 
        !           134: You can use http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/adm/dropadd to do bulk student
        !           135: creation deletion.
        !           136: 
        !           137: > 	With some minimal pointers along these lines, we can probably find
        !           138: > our way around.
        !           139: 
        !           140: Well we are at > 140 lines of email. I think we have a start. :-)
        !           141: 
        !           142: > 	And let us know if you're particularly busy, and we need to cool
        !           143: > our heels for a few days (actually, I'll be out of town Thursday afternoon
        !           144: > and Friday).
        !           145: 
        !           146: Not anymore busy then we normally are. I think with this you now have
        !           147: enough info to injure yourself.
        !           148: 
        !           149: Scott will do some updates to the software tommorrow, and he should a
        !           150: have a valid set of commands you can use to update yourselves to have
        !           151: the latest and greatest.
        !           152: 
        !           153: > 	Also, I have a student working with me. Do you guys have any
        !           154: > problems if Robert (address above in the cc:) contacts you with questions
        !           155: > along the way here?
        !           156: 
        !           157: Nope.
        !           158: 
        !           159: Let me know if I was opaque.
        !           160: -- 
        !           161: albertel@msu.edu        BM: n^20 t20 z20 qS 
        !           162: Guy Albertelli -8-3-2-  O-
        !           163:     I am learning that criticism is not nearly as effective as sabotage.
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