First, information must be retrieved from the LON-CAPA server. There are two kinds of information you will want:

• Source code of LON-CAPA, it provides you with
• network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world
• processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your students
• classroom and course management
• extensive new functionality for your web server
• tools for monitoring the state of your system

After the download, please read the pages describing the configuration, installation, and upgrading of LON-CAPA.


 

Source code of LON-CAPA

You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz.

To view past releases, please visit http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/.

To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the CVS tool, the open standard for version control. Please contact Helen ( helen@lon-capa.org) to request a CVS USERNAME.
1. export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs cvs login