Chapter 1
Getting Started
This chapter provides general information on LearningSpace and the installation and course creation processes.
About LearningSpace
LearningSpace is a Notes application that allows you to create, conduct, and administer courses. A LearningSpace course consists of five Notes databases. Together, they provide an interactive environment for teaching and taking courses.
LearningSpace Release 2.5 (R2.5) requires a Notes Domino 4.5x or 4.6x server. Compatibility with Domino allows courses to be accessible using Notes 4.5 or 4.6 clients and over the Internet using Web browsers.
LearningSpace comes with a database called LearningSpace Central. LearningSpace Central streamlines the process of creating and administering LearningSpace courses. You can use it to create a new course (Chapter 3) as well as to administer a course (Chapter 5).
Students and instructors can use Central to access courses. Central is the point through which students using Web browsers access courses. Instructors supply students with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) identifying the location of Central on the Internet. From within Central, students then open the courses to which they have access and begin work.
Roles of LearningSpace participants
LearningSpace is designed to support a variety of roles for course creation, design, administration, delivery, and participation. In some environments, one or more of these roles may be performed by the same person. The roles are as follows:
Administrator – Creates new courses; administers the Notes server on which the courses are stored; adds and removes participants from the Access Control Lists of the course databases; performs various tasks related to managing or modifying a course.
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