WebCt - LAMS Integration Module ==================================== Written By Luke Foxton LAMS Foundation Copyright (C) 2007 (http://lamsfoundation.org) Contents ================================================================================ 1. Requirements 2. Downloading the package 3. Installation 4. Configuring WebCt Side 5. Configuring LAMS Side 1. REQUIREMENTS ================================================================================ * Blackboard CE 6.x (Also known as WebCt Campus Edition) * Http Server * Ant * MySql Server 5.0 * CVS Client 2. Downloading the package ================================================================================ Configure your cvs client as follows: * access method: pserver * user name: anonymous * server name: lamscvs.melcoe.mq.edu.au * location: /usr/local/cvsroot Then Checkout the lams_webct_integration project. 3. Installation ================================================================================ 1) Install Blackboard CE 6.x on a server. 2) Download the WebCt-LAMS integration source package (see 3. Downloading the package). 3) Open up the build.properties file (located in the root project directory) in a text editor. 4) Follow the instructions to fill in the configuration details. NOTE: If your database server is on a different server, then you must create the user and give them permission to connect from other hosts. In MySql this is done for a user named 'monty' with the following statement: mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass'; 5) Run the create-table task from the Ant build.xml file. This can be done using the following command ant create-table 6) Set up a http server instance (for example Apacher Server) and copy the images direcory in a web-accessable directory. 7) Run the Ant deploy task ant deploy 4. Configuring WebCt Side ========================= 5. Configuring LAMS Side ========================