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2.5
R E L E A S E
Installation and
Administration Guide
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Contents Getting Started with Lotus 3 Creating a Course with LearningSpace .................. v LearningSpace Central ........... 13 Adding the LearningSpace Central database About this Guide ............... vii icon to your Notes workspace ....... 13 1 Getting Started ................ 1 About creating a new course using Central ... 14 About LearningSpace .............. 1 Creating a new course ................ 15 Roles of LearningSpace participants ..... 1 New Course Options ............... 16 A
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Automatically upgrading the course databases ................ 29 Creating new local replicas of the upgraded course databases ......... 30 Instructing students to recover their private documents .............. 30 Upgrading a Release 2.0 Design Library .. 31 5 Administering a Course with LearningSpace Central ........... 33 About using Central to administer a course .............. 33 Deferred creation of course databases ...... 33 Adding database icons to your workspace ... 35 Enabling Web bro
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Getting Started with Lotus LearningSpace This chart presents roles and responsibilities for those creating, developing, teaching, and participating in LearningSpace™ courses. LearningSpace Role Responsibilities Where to find information . . . Lotus Notes® The Notes™ administrator is The LearningSpace Installation and Configuration Guide responsible for creating new provides information on creating courses and some aspects Administrator LearningSpace courses and for of administering co
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About this Guide This guide describes the process for installing LearningSpace Release 2.5 and creating and administering LearningSpace courses. It has five chapters: Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Installing the LearningSpace Files onto a Server Chapter 3: Creating a Course with LearningSpace Central Chapter 4: Upgrading a Course Chapter 5: Administering a Course with LearningSpace Central For information about designing or teaching a LearningSpace course, see on-line LearningSpac
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Chapter 1 Getting Started This chapter provides general information on LearningSpace and the installation and course creation processes. About LearningSpace LearningSpace is a Notes application that allows you to create, conduct, and administer courses. A LearningSpace course consists of five Notes databases. Together, they provide an interactive environment for teaching and taking courses. LearningSpace Release 2.5 (R2.5) requires a Notes Domino 4.5x or 4.6x server. Compatibility with D
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Designer – Designs the content, flow, and appearance of the course. Instructor – Conducts the course; interacts with students. Student – Participates in the course. Note The instructor frequently assumes the role of designer. This guide and LearningSpace Help assume that the role of instructor and designer are combined and refer to them both as “instructor.” About creating a LearningSpace course The core LearningSpace application comes in the form of five Notes template databases (.nsf). Creat
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Set the LearningSpace Admin group to have “Create new databases” permission on the server on which the LearningSpace files will be installed. Set the LearningSpace Admin group to have “Create new replicas” access to the servers on which replicas of the course databases will be created. For more information about becoming a member of the LearningSpace Admin group in the Name & Address book, see “Assigning access to LearningSpace files” in Chapter 2. A server administrator assigns “Create new
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Notes client software Notes Release 4.51 or higher Web browsers Netscape Navigator 3.x, 4.x, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x Note Instructor and administrator tasks require that you access a course using a Notes client rather than a Web browser. What’s on the LearningSpace CD? The LearningSpace CD contains the five LearningSpace template databases, a template for course packs, and a number of other Notes databases. The names of the template databases are: schedule.nsf – Schedule mcenter.nsf –
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customize design aspects of LearningSpace databases. For information about using the customization library databases, see the LearningSpace on-line Instructor Help. install.nsf and upgrade.nsf – These databases allow easy installation of the LearningSpace files. The Install database is used for initial installation of the LearningSpace files. The Upgrade database is used to upgrade existing LearningSpace 2.0 files to Release 2.5. relnotes.htm – Lists the known problems and work-arounds in Learni
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The LearningSpace Instructor Guide and on-line Instructor Help include the following chapters/categories: LearningSpace Instructor Guide Working with a course The LearningSpace Welcome page Designing a Course Schedule Adding Course Materials to the MediaCenter Creating and Maintaining Participant Profiles Using the CourseRoom Creating and Modifying Assessments Grading Changing Course Attributes Managing Course Enrollment Administering a Course Customizing Course Databas
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Chapter 2 Installing the LearningSpace Files onto a Server This chapter contains information on how to prepare your environment for LearningSpace and how to install LearningSpace files onto a server. If you are upgrading from Release 2.0 to Release 2.5 If you are upgrading to LearningSpace Release 2.5, delete the Release 2.0 template files before installing the Release 2.5 templates on the server hard drive. The files you should delete from the server are: schedule.ntf mcenter.ntf
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Shut down and restart the Notes server process Before beginning the installation, shut down the Notes server process and restart it. Perform this step from the server, not from a workstation. 1. At the server console, type exit and press ENTER. The server shuts down. 2. Double-click the Notes Domino icon to restart the server. Open Install.nsf from the CD If you are upgrading from a previous release of LearningSpace, make sure you are a member of the LearningSpace Admin group in the server Name
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3. Enter the name of the LearningSpace Installation directory. The LearningSpace Installation directory is the subdirectory of the Notes data directory where LearningSpace Central resides. All courses that are administered through Central and all related files reside in subdirectories of the LearningSpace Installation directory that you name. If you will only be using one LearningSpace Central on this server, it is recommended that you name the Installation directory “lspace.” For more informati
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Later, when creating LearningSpace courses, you will use Central to save each new set of course databases in a separate subdirectory under the LearningSpace Installation directory. Figure 1 represents the placement of LearningSpace files and subdirectories: Figure 1 LearningSpace Directory Structure 10 LearningSpace Installation and Administration Guide
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Update server document To enable proper Web client access to the server, you have to update the server document as follows. 1. Open the Name & Address book on the server where you are installing LearningSpace. 2. In the Server\Servers view, open and edit the server document for the server where you are installing LearningSpace 3. Open the Agent Manager section of the server document. 4. In the Run restricted LotusScript™ agents field, enter Lotus Notes Template Development/Lotus Notes 5. Close
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5. In the Description field, enter Access to LearningSpace Central. 6. In the Members field, enter your name and those of any others who will be using Central to create and administer LearningSpace courses. If your site uses hierarchical names, use the person’s full hierarchical name. For example: Sandy Bingham/Acme/Education. 7. Save and close the document. Establishing access for the LearningSpace Admin group Make sure that all members of the LearningSpace Admin Group have access to create new
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Chapter 3 Creating a Course with LearningSpace Central This chapter describes the process of using LearningSpace Central to create LearningSpace courses. Note It is recommended that you perform the procedures in this chapter from a workstation connected to the server where LearningSpace is installed rather than from the server itself. This chapter includes the following topics: Adding the LearningSpace Central database icon to your Notes workspace About creating a new course using Ce
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About creating a new course using Central To use Central to create a course, you must: Be a member of the LearningSpace Admin group in the server Name & Address book or be entered in the Access Control List (ACL) for Central as a Manager with the [InstructorStaff] role selected. For more information, see “Assigning access to LearningSpace files” in Chapter 2. (As a member of the LearningSpace Admin group) have “Create new database” access to the server. “Create new database” access is set
