[OPLINTECH] Important information about new computer skills tutorials

[Jeff Greek]

Stephen,
Eric is on vacation but I can give you the gist of what he found.
Learn2.com has an MSI installer that you can download.  It can be pushed
out to all client computers on your network.  He got the download
location from their tech support but I don't have that information
handy. 


Jeff Greek, Technology Trainer
Worthington Libraries
Northwest Library, 2280 Hard Road, Columbus, OH  43235
614-807-2669

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:34 AM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Important information about new computer skills
tutorials

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-----
> From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
> On Behalf Of Stephen Hedges
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:24 AM
> To: oplinlist at oplin.org; oplinupdates at oplin.org; oplintech at oplin.org
> 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
> --
> Stephen Hedges, Executive Director
> Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
> 2323 W. 5th Avenue, Suite 130
> Columbus, Ohio  43204
> 614-728-5250    AIM: hedgesst

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