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Blackboard Learn Administration

By : Terry Patterson
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Blackboard Learn Administration

By: Terry Patterson

Overview of this book

Blackboard Learn is web application software that allows users around the world to participate in training and educational opportunities. This software is utilized in high schools, college campuses, corporations, and government entities."Blackboard Learn Administration" navigates both novice and experienced administrators through the simple and complex parts of the E-Learning portal.Readers go step-by-step with the author from planning and installing a Blackboard Learn instance to supporting and administrating a system with courses and users.The book starts with how to plan, install, and brand a Blackboard Learn instance. Readers then learn about the creation and management of courses and users. You then learn about the tools and controls that administrator's possess within Blackboard Learn. Readers also review how to improve security and performance within their system. You then dip into complex topics such as integrating Blackboard Learn with other information systems and publisher websites.Administrating Blackboard Learn educates the reader on the fundamental tools and tasks for basic administration, while explaining complex options that expert administrators want to tackle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blackboard Learn Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Creating Users in Blackboard Learn
Appendix
Index

Preparing a Red Hat or Solaris server for Blackboard Learn


We need to prepare our Red Hat or Solaris server for our Blackboard Learn installation. These specific environments will require the installation of additional libraries, which include the following:

  • apr-1.2.7.11.el5_3.1 (or possible newer version)

  • e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-23.el5 (or possible newer version)

  • gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1 (or possible newer version)

  • glibc-2.5-24 (or possible newer version)

  • libaio-0.3.106-3.2 (or possible newer version)

  • libgcc-4.1.2-46.el5 (or possible newer version)

  • libstdc++-4.1.2-46.el5 (or possible newer version)

The Apache and Tomcat applications will be installed with our Blackboard instance. So we don't need to install these prior to Blackboard Learn Installer. Currently, Blackboard Learn installs Apache 1.3, which is no longer supported by its community. After the installation we can replace this version with Apache 2. We will discuss this in detail in Chapter 9, Security, Reporting, and Configuration in Blackboard...