> I need to make the teachers course coordinators and open a class for them > with the sequence they are building out of webpages. This is really easy, Login as felicia, select the role of domain coordinator, Use the create cousre button, Enter the name of the course, and the path to the sequence they built. (like /res/msu/retteacher/path/to/file/my.sequence) And their user name. They will then be course coordinator. ------------------------------------------------------ > I guess I'm already at an impasse again here. The burning question > is this: how do I create course content and assemble it? That is a good question. :-) We have not had time yet to put together a default course or even a tutorial yet. Some of the things you might need to do we just wrote last week. :-) So I guess I will start a tutorial here. Some background info first: http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/~lucas/ and http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/priv/lucas/ goes to /home/lucas/public_html/ (I just created the directory /home/lucas/public_html/ and /home/lucas/public_html/Testing I also added www to the lucas group) (I did the same with rmcqueen) The need to make an author isn't something that has come up that often yet. . . and thus has no interface. - When you make a resource in a map, refer to it as /res/ohiou/lucas/whatever_you_have_named_it this where it will be published. Do not put a http://machinename/ where I didn't mention one. > I've created a course. I have received a nice long name > identifying the course. > > I go into /adm/roles and try to put on my course coordinator hat > and it conks out trying to get into /adm/. Yep that is because when you specified the course you specfied a toplevel map that doesn't yet exist. (I'll pretend it was /res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/start.sequence) > What I'd like to try is the following: create 3 pages of text and > link them. I have the General Overview from the Web to give some context. > Are there a few quick pointers you could toss this way? > > * Can I create the content with a tool, or do I place an html somewhere. > If so, where? There isn't a pretty way to create most types of content yet. Just dump them in /home/lucas/public_html/ > * how do I publish the pages? I'll pretend you have created /home/lucas/public_html/Testing/page1.html /home/lucas/public_html/Testing/page2.html /home/lucas/public_html/Testing/page3.html somehow. Goto http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/priv/lucas/Testing/page1.html Click on the "Publish Resource" button up top. Fill in the metadata (especially the name field), click on the button at the bottom "Finalize Publication" - this resource is now published as /res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page1.html - repeat for page2.html and page3.html > * How do I tell the rat which course I'm working on? Context. :-) > * How do I officially access the RAT? In the system the problem is inverted. The system is URL driven, so type in the URL of waht you would like to edit. (In this case the sequence file http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/priv/lucas/Testing/start.sequence) The system detects that you want to edit a sequence and fires up the rat, it will also detect that the file doesn't yet exist, and will create it. Eventually it should do this with any common resource type. Play a round wwith the rat click on various objects and read the prompts it puts up it should be fairly straight forward. (Plus you have seen it done before. :-) I suggest resource 1 to be: Title: The first resource URL:/res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page1.html I suggest resource 2 to be: Title: The second resource URL:/res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page2.html I suggest resource 3 to be: Title: The third resource URL:/res/ohiou/lucas/Testing/page3.html I suggest resource 4 to be: Title: A problem from guy URL:/res/103/albertel/cd468a.problem Once you have created a map that you are happy with and have hit "Store" you can publish it. (Use the "Publish Resource" button again) (Don't forget to "Store" until you do nothing has really been saved.) Once you publish this map, take off you Course Coordinator hat (if it is on) and put back on. Things should work better. Also try clicking on the "Nav" button on the remote control. http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/adm/parmset can be used to set parmaters for homework > * Once the course is set up, how do I access it as a student? In http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/adm/createuser as Course Coordinator you can give yourself the "student" hat. You can also create another user and make them a student in your course. You can use http://capa1.phy.ohiou.edu/adm/dropadd to do bulk student creation deletion. > With some minimal pointers along these lines, we can probably find > our way around. Well we are at > 140 lines of email. I think we have a start. :-) > And let us know if you're particularly busy, and we need to cool > our heels for a few days (actually, I'll be out of town Thursday afternoon > and Friday). Not anymore busy then we normally are. I think with this you now have enough info to injure yourself. Scott will do some updates to the software tommorrow, and he should a have a valid set of commands you can use to update yourselves to have the latest and greatest. > Also, I have a student working with me. Do you guys have any > problems if Robert (address above in the cc:) contacts you with questions > along the way here? Nope. Let me know if I was opaque. -- albertel@msu.edu BM: n^20 t20 z20 qS Guy Albertelli -8-3-2- O- I am learning that criticism is not nearly as effective as sabotage.