TENCompetence Learning Design Services for Coppercore Service Integration

This web-page is a guide to getting & installing the TENCompetence WP6 Learning Design Services for Coppercore Service Integration

The contacts are Dai Griffiths and Paul Sharples.

Last updated 22nd August 2008.

Widget Server

This download is a modified version of the current CopperCore Runtime Environment (CCRT). It has been modified to include the updated SLeD player and the Widget Server.

  Cross platform download

Links

• Screenshots of the chat widget in action between two users. here
• Installation Instructions. here
• Authoring a Learning Design using widgets. here
• Administration of the widget server. here

New features

• New default "vote" widget bundled
• Lock/Unlock features implemented in widget api
• Hide/Show events
• Improved Proxy server features
• Sled player improved, including a number of fixes

What is this tool for?

• Learning Design authors who wish to use actual services within SLeD/Coppercore
• Allows authors to leverage & create new external services and use them in their Learning Designs

Design Philosophy

• Based on the draft W3C widget specification
• Ability to add new widget services and make them available to the Leanring Design runtime
• Separtion of concerns - the service is external to the Coppercore engine and is implemented using the Coppercore Service Integration framework

Caveats

• Only currenty allows the use of widgets designed/based on the W3C widget sepcification.

How do I use a widget in my Learning Design?

To use one of the widgets made available from the widget server, you must add a parameter to an existing service element found within an environment. See here for further details.

Source Code

You will need to download the following zip file from: http://coppercore.sourceforge.net/downloads.shtml. CopperCore Runtime Environment (coppercore_ccrt_3.1.zip). Unzip this downloaded zip file into the parent folder where the following other modules will also be situated.

The Source code is stored in a SourceForge CVS repository. The details are:

Host: tencompetence.cvs.sourceforge.net
Repository path: /cvsroot/tencompetence
Connection type: pserver
User: anonymous

The modules needed are:

wp6/org.coppercore.ccsi
wp6/uk.ac.open.sled
wp6/org.tencompetence.widgetservice
wp6/org.tencompetence.jboss.mbean.db (optional, but recommended. This module allows CCRT to be patched so that it can run the widget database using a combination of HSQL and an mbean auto-loader, without having to set up an external database)

IMPORTANT: check these modules out so that each project is in the same folder as CCRT.
This is because the ant build scripts expect CCRT to be in a certain location.
If you wish to check out the modules differently, it will be up to you to modify them accordingly.

Addtional

For development work it requires Eclipse 3.3.
You will also need to follow the instructions found at the root of the "org.tencompetence.widgetservice" cvs project in "readme.txt" in order to build everything successfully.

Scorm Integration work

This is now part of the above installation. Resources and more detailed information however, can still be accessed here.

If you are having problems please email p.sharples@bolton.ac.uk.