[LON-CAPA-dev] 2.0 email draft
Stuart Peter Raeburn
lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:41:06 -0400
Hi Guy,
Step 1:
Typos:
New Role 'Assitant Author' _change to_ New Role 'Assistant Author'
use of a specfic display mechanism _change to_ use of a specific display
mechanism
Suggested changes:
- IMS export enabled (We have done WebCT 4.0 -> Lon-CAPA -> WebCT 4.0)
_change to_
- IMS export enabled
[note of explanation: IMS export does not currently re-convert .problem
files back into QTI-like XML used by WebCT 4, although we do export course
structure and static files (html, pdf etc.) in IMS format which will
re-import into WebCT].
Suggested addition: (nice, but not necessarily big or important change):
- Upload of HTML files to DOCS prompts for embedded images, objects etc.
Step 2:
Suggested changes:
2) If running Fedora, use yum to update your machine and then install the
LONCAPA-prerequisites.
If running SuSe, use you to update your machine.
if running RHEL, use up2date to update your machine.
Step 5:
5) restart the Lon-CAPA system services
/etc/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/init.d/loncontrol start
6) restart the web server:
Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise:
/etc/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/init.d/httpd start
SuSe:
/etc/init.d/apache stop
/etc/init.d/apache start
Stuart
P.S. One thing that I know is still missing from v 2.0.0 ....
A CHECKRPMS.rhel is needed that calls up2date via CLI (I know the long term
plan is a unified CHECKRPMS).
Guy Albertelli II writes:
> Hi All,
>
> 2.0 announce email let me know if I mucked anything up, or forgot to
> mention any big/nice/important features/changes.
>
> ----
>
> New Version 2.0.0 Released
>
>
> Notable Changes:
> - things should be faster
> - lots of documentation updates
> - /etc/init.d/loncontrol reload (tells lonc & lond to reread hosts.tab)
> - internal caching updates faster
> - bridge tasks
> - What's New page for Course Coordinators
> - SPRS is faster
> - Cut, Copy, and Paste items in DOCS
> - new tags <chem> <num> <parse> <algebra> ease display of data
> - score upload allows more formats and upload by ID
> - IMS import of WebCT 4
> - New Role 'Assitant Author' for authors that shouldn't have access to
> anything outside of CSTR
> - PARM screens has been reorganized and made easier to use
> - DOCS has ability to recover from accidental resource removal
> - ability to automate course creation
> - format a number to n significant figures
> - scantron support of number and letter formats
> - scantron support of numerical CODES and of lengths other than 6
> - <m> tag output configurable and authors can optionally force the
> use of a specfic display mechanism
> - display partially correct problems improved
> - trackstudent can now show full student history
> - public browsing users can now interact with all types of problems
> - IMS export enabled (We have done WebCT 4.0 -> Lon-CAPA -> WebCT 4.0)
> - lots of bugfixes
>
>
> To install this update:
>
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 or 4, RHEL ES 4, Suse 9.2
> (SuSE 9.3, and SLES 9 support is coming soon.)
>
>
> 2) Use yum to update your machine and then install the
> LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> yum update
> yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
>
>
> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.0.0.tar.gz
>
> and untar it
>
> tar xzvf loncapa-2.0.0.tar.gz
>
>
>
> 4) Run the UPDATE script as root
> cd loncapa-2.0.0
> su
> ./UPDATE
>
>
>
> 5) restart the system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
>
>
>
>
> ----NOTES
> 1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
> 2) Defects reports, and enhancements requests can be entered at
> http://bugs.lon-capa.org
> 3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org
>
> --
> guy@albertelli.com 0-7-2-3-27,137
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