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    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.
  164: