Martin,<br><br>Okay. Thanks.<br><br>Gerald<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Gerald Ardito <<a href="mailto:gerald.ardito@gmail.com">gerald.ardito@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have about 140 XOs connecting to a XS server (version .6).<br>
> Can I "push" activities to the laptops?<br>
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</div>Yes but...<br>
<br>
- it is only easy if you prepared things on your base image for the<br>
XOs beforehand<br>
<br>
- it doesn't 'push' the activities, but a visit to control panel -><br>
software update will trigger the update<br>
<br>
On the XS, this is handled by xs-activity-server -- documented in<br>
/usr/share/doc/xs-activity-server/README. The XOs need to know to look<br>
to the XS, this is controlled by a little config file documented in<br>
the wikipage of the software updater.<br>
<br>
My recommendation for something effective: put the .xo files on the<br>
XS, link to them with large icons on the Moodle homepage. Our<br>
experience with Uy is that kids learn how to install/upgrade<br>
activities easily... and find it addictive. Only a disk-full will stop<br>
them ;-)<br>
<br>
[ The OS/UI design way back then was to make updating the OS<br>
controllable centrally, and to leave activity upgrades as a<br>
user-driven action. I mention this to explain the hysterical raisins,<br>
no justification or judgement on the topic... ]<br>
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