Lotus LearningSpace R5.01 Deployment Guide

58 Lotus LearningSpace R5.01 Deployment Guide

functionality will be installed on the Core machine and will allow it to properly

connect to its respective database server.

SSL certificates

If you want to use SSL for encryption of the network connection, you will need to

buy an SSL certificate for every Core (IIS), Collaboration (Domino R5), and

Content server. These certificates can be obtained at trust centers (such as

http://www.verisign.com and http://www.thawte.com). Read more about SSL

in the LearningSpace 5.01 Release Notes.

5.4 Content and authoring tools

LearningSpace is able to handle any kind of learning content: Web-based or

LAN-based, self-created or third party, or multimedia or text-only. The third party

and IBM content and authoring tools shown in Table 5-5 and Table 5-6 have been

successfully tested with LearningSpace 5.01 and are officially supported.

Table 5-5 Supported authoring tools

Table 5-6 Supported third party content

Product name Notes

Macromedia

Authorware 5.2

Requires the latest Web Player available from Macromedia's Web

site.

Macromedia

Flash 5

Must use a special template to track info back to LearningSpace.

Template is provided from Macromedia.

Dreamweaver

with

Coursebuilder 3.0

or 4.0

IBM Knowledge

Producer or IBM

Simulation

Producer

Product Name Notes

NETg Skill Builder DX Player 1.04 required to run NETg content within

LearningSpace.

SmartForce Jasmine version tested.

Skillsoft