[Server-devel] Pushing Activities to XOs

[Gerald Ardito]

Martin,

Okay. Thanks.

Gerald

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have about 140 XOs connecting to a XS server (version .6).
> > Can I "push" activities to the laptops?
>
> Yes but...
>
>  - it is only easy if you prepared things on your base image for the
> XOs beforehand
>
>  - it doesn't 'push' the activities, but a visit to control panel ->
> software update will trigger the update
>
> On the XS, this is handled by xs-activity-server -- documented in
> /usr/share/doc/xs-activity-server/README. The XOs need to know to look
> to the XS, this is controlled by a little config file documented in
> the wikipage of the software updater.
>
> My recommendation for something effective: put the .xo files on the
> XS, link to them with large icons on the Moodle homepage. Our
> experience with Uy is that kids learn how to install/upgrade
> activities easily... and find it addictive. Only a disk-full will stop
> them ;-)
>
> [ The OS/UI design way back then was to make updating the OS
> controllable centrally, and to leave activity upgrades as a
> user-driven action. I mention this to explain the hysterical raisins,
> no justification or judgement on the topic... ]
>
>
>
> m
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