[OPLINTECH] Important information about new computer skills tutorials

[Stephen Hedges]

I'm curious if anyone has found a good way to handle these installs? I was
hoping someone would answer Eric's query with some sort of "magic bullet."

Stephen

On Wed, June 18, 2008 1:48 pm, Eric Webster wrote:
> Has anyone devised a way to deploy this or silently install it? It isn't
> packaged in what I would consider an industry standard package, such as
> MSI or NSIS. I can't find any documentation regarding installation
> switches on their site either. I would like to avoid manual
> installation, and future updates, on every computer we have if at all
> possible.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Eric Webster
> Network Administrator
> Worthington Libraries
> http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Stephen Hedges
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> Subject: [OPLINTECH] Important information about new computer
> skillstutorials
>
> The Learning Express Library included in the Ohio Web Library package of
> databases will be enhanced starting July 1 with a set of computer skills
> tutorials from Learn2.com. These tutorials will appear under the heading
> "Computer Skills" in the list of tests and will use a combination of
> audio,
> video, graphic animation, screen captures and text to teach computer
> skills.
>
> Learning Express tech support has alerted us that:
> 1) this Learn2 package of computer skills tutorials requires the
> installation of a small multimedia player that extends the capabilities
> of
> the browser; and
> 2) this player currently will NOT run on Vista or Mac OS X.
>
> Here are the system requirements for the multimedia player (from the
> Learn2.com web site):
>
> - Operating System: Windows 95 OSR2 or later, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0
> SP3
> or later, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Macintosh OS8.1.
> - Browser: Internet Explorer 4.0 or later (5.5 or higher recommended),
> Netscape 4.5 or later, AOL 4.0 + for Windows 95
> - Processor: Pentium Class, Macintosh PowerPC
> - Memory: 16MB or more of RAM (32MB RAM for Mac)
> - Sound: Audio device, installed & configured
>
> The player can be downloaded from:
> http://www.tutorials.com/cust_supt/cc_faq_plugin_n.asp?ugid=dHV0b3JpYWxz
>
> We recommend that library IT staff pre-install this player on their
> public
> access computers. Users who try to access the tutorials from a computer
> that
> does not have the player installed will be taken to the Learn2.com site
> and
> asked to install it.
>
> For libraries that use the Learning Express MARC records (available from
> http://oplin.org/marcrecords), those records will continue to take users
> to
> the Learning Express site. We are still checking into the availability
> of
> MARC records for the Learn2 tutorials and, if they are, we will make
> them
> available to you as a separate package of MARC records.
>
> Stephen
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