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NetOp School 6 not upgrading
- Here is what we have:
- Here is what get:
- And for the indexing servers: “ Web Update failed with error: Index file could not be located at update-server.”
Evaluating Student Writing with Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Interesting article on how audio comments (which save grader time) get through through to students better, by an language teaching practitioner in the EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine 2011.
- Using simple standard and readily available tools: your version of Adobe Acrobat Professional is ready for your use under Novell Applications.
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Thinking through the observation that students tend to read only the bottom line grade of a returned paper, and do not even bother looking at the teacher’s comments, and that forcing them to the latter by assigning them to revise their papers is less popular, leads one to the question: what more advanced technology is available to take advantage of the teachable moments when writing? Maybe a blend of automated corrective feedback by natural language processing tools like the MS-Office proofing tools and – for the demise of the advanced real-time online collaboration platform Google Wave – a face-to-face writing tutorial emporium where a tutor monitors the writing progress of many students using screensharing applications of classroom management systems like NetOp School or Sanako Study 1200, like here (in a better resolution than this thumbnail, obviously, but you get the idea):
Streaming Problems with Realmedia via RTSP from ereserves with VLC Player (and Internet Explorer. And NetOp School)
- VLC-player
- version 1.1.9, but also currently newest 1.1.11 as well on Windows CXP SP 3
- opens from IE8 and Firefox 3.6
- but is not able to play files (tested even multi) through. Rather, it nicely falls on its face, with the audio stream simply appearing to stop, mid-sentence, after 2:38 (pretty consistently – a buffering bug? A great way to slip through pre-testing).
- In the LRC, I could hardly bring the taskswitcher up, let alone (15 minutes of waiting) the task manager, to even find that vlc.exe is the culprit, with a CPU utilization of 99% solid (Ouch!).
- Not quite so bad in the office computer where it hovered slightly above 25%, maybe busying only one CPU core.
- My Google searches do not find anything quite similar.
- RealPlayer 14 to the rescue?
- In IE8, RealPlayer does not open when clicking on the web page link with the RM file which causes a dialogue to open if VLC-player is the default player, rather a strange unplayable content error..
- In Firefox, RealPlayer open and plays (and pre-buffers) the stream completely.
- Note that ereserves “download as zip” cannot serve as a workaround: gives you only the links like http://dlib4.uncc.edu/streaming/media_play.php?file=9364cb66b9e1cae26aed0f471e9eab5b, which require you to re-authenticate, even if in the same browser session, and do not redirect to the resource, neither audio nor web page form which you could launch the audio (in short, I do not get what this download as zip is good for)
- Next Problem: This may work on my office computer. In the lab we have NetOp School installed. That adds another layer of NetOp School problems which look like they can be resolved
next time the lab is reimaged. For now, use instead audio from Moodle metacourses where possible.next time I get around to design and run a Symantec-Ghost Software and File Action on the computers (all LRC lab PCs) and test the result (on PC10) which was now.
Netop: Nhstconf.ndb update/locking error
Solved: NetOp School NLSP.dll prevents streaming of Real Media via RTSP on student computers
- On a NetOp School system, Realplayer 14, when trying to load e.g. rtsp://dlib4.uncc.edu:554/e_reserves/CD4French1-7.rm (from Firefox, or disk, authenticated), crashes nlsp.dll (version 6, part of of NetOp School from Danware). This is the NetOp Browser Policy IP Filter.
- The MS-windows appcompat contains this:
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NAME
RealPlay.exe
nlsp.dll
kernel32.dll
FILTER
GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY
GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY
GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY
NAME2
cddbcontrol.dll
nlsp.dll
kernel32.dll
SIZE
2041072
243728
989696
CHECKSUM
0x902F78A2
0xB9006E28
0x2D998938
BIN_FILE_VERSION
2.6.206.205
6.20.2010.349
5.1.2600.5781
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION
2.6.206.205
6.20.2010.349
5.1.2600.5781
PRODUCT_VERSION
2, 6, 206, 205
6.20 (2010349)
5.1.2600.5781
FILE_DESCRIPTION
CDDBControl Core Module
NetOp Browser Policy IP Filter
Windows NT BASE API Client DLL
COMPANY_NAME
Gracenote, Inc.
Netop Business Solutions A/S
Microsoft Corporation
PRODUCT_NAME
CDDBControl Core Module
Netop School
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
FILE_VERSION
2, 6, 206, 205
6.20 (2010349)
5.1.2600.5781 (xpsp_sp3_gdr.090321-1317)
ORIGINAL_FILENAME
CDDBControl.DLL
NLSP.DLL
kernel32
`
INTERNAL_NAME
CDDBControl
NLSP
kernel32
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1999 – 2009
Copyright © 1981-2010 Netop Business Solutions A/S. All Rights Reserved. Portions used under license from third parties.
© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
VERFILEDATEHI
0x0
0x0
0x0
VERFILEDATELO
0x0
0x0
0x0
VERFILEOS
0x4
0x4
0x40004
VERFILETYPE
0x2
0x2
0x2
MODULE_TYPE
WIN32
WIN32
WIN32
PE_CHECKSUM
0x1F6508
0x4526B
0xFE572
LINKER_VERSION
0x0
0x0
0x50001
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION
2.6.206.205
6.20.2010.349
5.1.2600.5781
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION
2.6.206.205
6.20.2010.349
5.1.2600.5781
LINK_DATE
04/13/2010 19:48:37
12/15/2010 19:38:53
03/21/2009 14:06:58
UPTO_LINK_DATE
04/13/2010 19:48:37
12/15/2010 19:38:53
03/21/2009 14:06:58
VER_LANGUAGE
English (United States) [0x409]
Language Neutral [0x0]
English (United States) [0x409]
- NetOp support advises to try, among other things, resetting the Winsock catalog via "netsh winsock reset", which seems to work on a testmachine.
Classroom management system: Netop School Software Install, Configuration and Test
- Uninstall the test install of Netop first from “Add/Remove Programs”
- The install should be made under the account that will before imaging copied into the Default User Profile.
- The install files are here (you need to be logged into, as well as for the videos).
- Both the teacher and the student software are recommended to be installed on the teacher computer.
- The basic settings for teacher:
- lrc-class: The name of the class that the Student module should join.
YES:Whether the Teacher module should use the Windows login name of the Student computer as student primary display name.
[see lrchelp mail account] =Protection password
NO:Whether the communication profile should be changed to something other than the default TCP/IP, for example wireless. - The basic settings for student install:
- YES:Whether the Student module should join a class automatically when started.
lrc-class:The name of the class the Student module should join. Note: This class name must match the class name defined in the Teacher module.
NO:Whether the communication profile should be changed to something other than the default TCP/IP, for example wireless - There are more configuration choices in the screencasts here:
- Teacher software Install Screencast
- Student software Install Screencast
- Functionality Test Screencast: (testuser needs to be logged in on PC05. Skip the waiting section before the results come in at the end; this is when I took the test on the student computer).
- In addition, try to point the shared folder for teachers J:\LRC\Plagwitz (try alternatively UNC: ). Try this first as labadmn (labadmn has no access to this share) and alternatively with your staff/teacher login (where Netop will likely accept it, but may not carry over from the labadmn into the Default User Profile).
- Try to add a copy of the “Teacher” program from “Startup”/ “All programs” to All Users / Startup
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