The ICT 4 Life ActiveBook may be hosted on a school-based VLE.
Please be aware of the following restrictions:
- The program operates in Quickstart mode when online.
- You should restrict access to authenticated school users only.
- The package will be approximately 466MB when created.
You may need to increase the maximum upload size that your VLE permits. Please review your VLE documentation, and/or online support forums if this is the case.
- The large movies may cause congestion when accessed remotely. (you may wish to replace these movie files with substitute files).
Follow the steps below to prepare your ICT 4 Life ActiveBook for online (VLE) deployment:
- Download the package support file: (> click here <)
- Perform an adminstrative installation of the ActiveTeach
- extracts the files required from the CD-ROM to a new folder.
- Extract the ZIP file into the 'ActiveTeach 1' directory
- overwrites older files and adds new files that are required.
- Execute the 1_Prepare_VLE.bat file.
- moves files according to online requirements.
- deletes files that are redundant in this VLE package.
- Zip the content of the ActiveTeach 1 directory
- creates the uploadable package for your VLE.
Full instructions including a step-by-step guide can downloaded from the following link (this readme file is included within the ZIP file.)
To view or download these instructions, click > here <
Note: some users may find that the ZIP file must be created using NO compression - this will require a compression utility capable of such settings, e.g. WinZip. This will avoid timeouts due to extended decompression times on particularly large resource files.