This entry is a contribution of teacher Daniel Gastelú Computer. The situation described is applicable to any high school classroom (or primary) of Uruguay, and here we have the implementation of Ceibal .
There are many teachers who have ever implemented a virtual course used a free service of this type of platforms, such as Dokeos , but have had some problems because many times the server is discharged or made maintenance, etc, which makes the course is incomplete or we cause some delay.
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When placed in a free party server, there is no guarantee if you do not see much traffic dams, therefore, another possibility is to install the platform locally at the educational institution.
Therefore, the decision is "server out of high school or within the high school? About
decisions will depend on each situation. So everyone sees what is best for your reality. It is not the same as a high school with 700 students in turn one with 250. It also applies to the case decision connectivity service. It is not the same as having a modem slower than a fiber-optic service.
If installed on an external server:
By accessing from the classroom to content outside the center suffers ANTELDATA bottleneck (0.48Mbps 0.23Mbps down rise in the optimistic case)
is given the situation that a teacher makes a blog or upload content to a platform and then from the living room can not access. This discourages the teacher. Why put things together and then not be used in class? Depend on the student's will go to a nearby school where they do work online, download the material and hope to drive to class. "Very complicated". There are thousands of options, including one GoogleDocs service. But ... indispensable connectivity ...
If installed on a server in the center.
Avoids bottleneck. It always works inside the bottle only to the restriction of the internal network speed (10/100Mbps)
Hardware:
relatively little investment is required. A central PC 2007 or 2008 onwards and a wireless router (those that have a rubber antennas). The antenna allows XO/XO1.5/Magallanes router to connect to the network.
Software :
You need the platform (Claroline in my case, free) and Server (Apache / / MySQL / PHP). Install and configure the services is a headache, so I searched my time evaluating a package all ready install (turnkey) with little effort. I downloaded the package Appserv and proceeded to install, all very simple. To all you give "Next", "Next", "Next", "Next" without changing anything and the end is ready. The current version I use is Windows Appserv 02/05/1910. ;
Checking if it works.
on the server machine Open a web browser and type the following address http://127.0.0.1 We have to show a picture like this:
need to know the IP server machine so that others can access the brand new web service. On the server, interpreters abrimnos a command window (Start / Run ... / command) In the black window that appears type ipconfig . will receive various data, but only interested in where it says IP address or IPv4, are numbers separated by dots. In this example we will say for example it is 192.168.5.40 ....
How we tested whether it was properly installed and accessible from the wired and wireless network?
We go to any center PC that is on the internal network. In the browser write http://192.168.5.40 and you should see the same page displayed.
We take any PC and connect to the router antenna. In view of access points are CEIBAL antennas, but we connect to the router antenna (it is easy to identify, generate are called as the manufacturer's mark and a shtick Belkin, Linksys and TP-Link. Router's manual explain how to rename). Once connected to the router in the XO / Magallanes open the Browse activity and type 192.168.5.40 and we see this same page.
to here so far so good. If there is interest to continue with the installation of Claroline, protecting access to key data tables and the initial configuration of Claroline.
I show some pictures of the Claroline platform Operational
in the PC Server:
In a "Magellan"
In an XO which is in Library:
A 1.0 XO:
NOTE: Fernando da
Rosa has developed an idea called "Aula intra Networks" which also explains how to install a web server using a wiki to work collaboratively in the classroom.
