Manhattan 3.0 Administrator's Reference
Steven Narmontas
Copyright
© 2003-2006 Western New England College
Revision History
Revision 3.0
07 March 2006
Revised for Manhattan 3.0
Revision 2.2
24 February 2004
Revised for Manhattan 2.2
Revision 1.0
25 October 2003
First Edition
Table of Contents
1.
Introduction
History
What is Manhattan?
Your role as administrator
Where to get Manhattan
2.
Installation and Testing
Introduction
FreeBSD needs gmake
Installation Instructions
Installation Commentary
Separate Compilation of Manhattan Components
Security Issues
3.
Managing Adminstrator's accounts
Creating the super-user account
Logging in and the administrator's menu
You can't share your super-user account!
Creating additional administrator accounts
Deleting an administrator
Modifying an administrator's privileges
Forgot your password?
4.
A tutorial for administrators
Create courses
Normal, Template and Standalone Courses
Creating normal courses
Create the Introduction to Physics course
Create an English Composition I course
Logging in as Prof. Einstein
Create a Course Template for Prof. Einstein
Create a standalone course
Configure courses
Changing a group's description
Accessing a course's configuration menu
Configuring Course Templates
On your own
Changing a course's access rights
View/modify/delete users
The search users form
A quick list of all users
Viewing Prof. Einstein's profile
About a user's
"Personal Info"
A few notes about users
On your own
Manage chat
Start the Melange chat service
Enter Chat
View/delete Melange service log
Stop the Melange chat service
Recommended periodic chat management
On your own
Login Logs
How the logs get rotated
All logs vs. individual logs
Admin logins
Viewing raw log data
Login Graphs
On your own
Surveys
The Administrator's Survey Lists
Creating a New Survey
On your own
Delivering a survey
Prof. Einstein takes the survey
Viewing survey results
How to learn more
Miscellaneous commands
Who's on Manhattan?
Lock Server
Clean up
Disk space
On your own
Delete courses
Step 1 - Get a list of courses to choose from
Step 2 - Select courses from the list
Step 3 - Confirm your decision
Cleaning up
Deleting the empty course groups
Removing users without classes
5.
Creating Courses - additional details
ID numbers, usernames and passwords
More about the roster text file
Choosing a group name
Choosing an
"Internal Course Name"
Name Mismatch
The Alternative XML format
The XML format by example
Using an XML file to create courses
Skipping the XML Upload step
6.
Configure courses - additional details
The Configuration menu
Select modules, change course title, semester, teacher information
View password file
Get course roster
Add a student
Add a teacher
Delete a student or a teacher
Reset a person's password
Change a person's name, team, or alias
Assign teams
View student login logs, class access statistics, etc.
Recent logins
Event Calendar
Event List
Disk Usage
Clipboard Viewer
7.
Surveys - additional details
The big picture
Questions and answers
A.
How to translate Manhattan
Date and time formats
Step-by-Step instructions
Naming Conventions
Things NOT to translate
Beware of continued lines \
Image tags
B.
GNU Free Documentation License
PREAMBLE
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
VERBATIM COPYING
COPYING IN QUANTITY
MODIFICATIONS
COMBINING DOCUMENTS
COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
TRANSLATION
TERMINATION
FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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Introduction