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Figure 8-14 LearningSpace Core - administration interface - logon page

LearningSpace Core function test

After the Basic Configuration described below, you should proceed with a

complete function test of the Core server before you continue extending the

architecture with a Collaboration server or additional Core servers.

8.5 Configure the Core server

After you install the software package and verify the installation, you will

configure LearningSpace Core using the administration interface.

During the installation, a default administration account (username=admin,

password=admin) is created. Use this account to log onto the administration

interface.

8.5.1 Changing the password of the default administrator account

Right after the login, you are in the home module. This is indicated by the orange

Home button on the left dark button bar. To change the default password, click

the Change Password button that is located on the top button bar. Enter the old

password (admin), a new password, confirm it, and click OK. We recommend

that you use a password that contains at least 8 mix-cased characters and a

number (for example, siRx2opD).

In the second step, you should create your personal administration account and

remove the default admin account to frustrate possible brute force attacks on the

this account.

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You will find more information on creating user accounts in Chapter 14,

“Populating with users” on page 185.

8.5.2 Changing Core settings

While in the home module, click Core Settings on the top button bar and change

the settings as described below.

User settings input section

If you do not want self-registration of users, you can set the field Self Roster

UserType to <disabled>.

E-mail settings input section

LearningSpace has several e-mail-based features. If you want to use them, you

will have to specify an existing SMTP mail server in the SMTP host field. Make

sure that the mail server is configured to accept e-mails from the LearningSpace

Core server. Optionally you can enable e-mail notification. Then course authors

can, on a per-course basis, turn on several e-mail notifications (for course

enrollment/unenrollment or course online/offline, for example).

The e-mail sender/responder address has to be specified in the

EmailNotifications.properties file that is located in

LearningSpace5\Program\Resources\Text\language directory. There you have

to replace in the second line the value [e-mail] by an e-mail

address the students can respond to.

FTP publishing settings input section

As already described, when you use the integrated assessment feature,

LearningSpace creates assessment pages which will be transferred to the

content server using FTP. Therefore, you have to specify location and login

information for the FTP server.

If you set up your FTP account based on IP access restrictions, as described in

“Setting up an FTP account for assessment publishing” on page 90, then you

only have to fill in the Virtual Target URL and the FTP URL field.

In the Virtual Target URL field, put in the URL to the virtual directory that is

mapped to the FTP accounts root directory:

http://yourservername.tld/VirtualDir

Note: LearningSpace provides a context-based help, which can be reached

by clicking Help on the left button bar. There you will find detailed information

about the currently visible settings page.