Re: [seul-edu] Link Management System

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

Key point here being: 

  What OS does the server have that will run this software? 


The software currently runs MySQL for a back end, which is pretty simple to
install...

There are other options...

Les



At 10:47 AM 12/5/01 -0700, Prevett, Larry wrote:
>
>| This normally would be on the inside of the school LAN and attached to the
>| local in-school webserver. All schools should have these in order to allow
>| teachers to create websites to direct students to educationally
>| appropriate sites. All school workstations would normally load this as the
>| home page, rather than any external site (which would be much slower than
>| LAN speed).
>
>Les,
>
>Good timing. Here is the message I was just
>composing - we are looking for just such an
>application.
>
>----
>
> There is a lady at one of the high schools here
> who was saving links for her class at a web site
> called "murl.com" that's no longer there. I was
> suggesting to her that she keep her links on
> a web server on their intranet instead of the
> internet (for obvious reasons.) She was willing
> to do so but I haven't had time to identify an
> application for her.
>
> This could be a simple web page, I know. But
> she doesn't know html that well yet and likes
> the web based form for entering links she was
> used to.
>
> How difficult would it be to adapt your perl
> scripts to allow teachers to collect their
> own links for their classes in some kind of
> space on an intranet web server. The entry and
> editing the links should be password protected.
> Students would simply access the links she provides
> for them.
>
> Would you be interested in doing this? We
> could give the software a field test and give
> you some feedback if you want. Maybe some default
> links from the SEUL database could be included
> eventually.
>
>----
>
>I was going to say "What do you think?" but
>it sounds like you already have what she needs!
>How to we get it?
>
>L. Prevett
>Mathematics Instructor
>Cochise College, Sierra Vista, AZ, US
>prevettl@cochise.cc.az.us
>
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