HowTos for teaching and learning

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  1. HowTos for teaching and learning
    1. Teaching Programming
    2. Monitoring pupils
    3. Restricting pupils' network access
    4. HowTos from wiki.debian.org

All Debian packages mentioned in this section can be installed by running apt install <package> (as root).

Teaching Programming

stable/education-development is a meta package depending on a lot of programming tools. Please note that almost 2 GiB of disk space is needed if this package is installed. For more details (maybe to install only a few packages), see the Debian Edu Development packages page.

Monitoring pupils

/!\ Warning: make sure you know the status of the laws about monitoring and restricting computer users' activities in your jurisdiction.

Some schools use control tools like Epoptes or iTALC to supervise their students. See also: Epoptes Homepage and iTALC Homepage.

To get full Epoptes support, these steps are required. 

# Run on a combi server (and on each additional ltsp server):
apt update
apt install epoptes
ltsp-chroot -m --arch i386 apt update
ltsp-chroot -m --arch i386 apt install epoptes-client
ltsp-chroot -m --arch i386 apt install ssvnc
ltsp-chroot -m --arch i386 sed -i 's/test -f/#test -f/' /etc/init.d/epoptes-client 
ltsp-chroot -m --arch i386 sed -i 's/grep -qs/#grep -qs/' /etc/init.d/epoptes-client 
# If diskspace matters, use 'ltsp-update-image -n' instead.
ltsp-update-image

Restricting pupils' network access

Some schools use Squidguard or Dansguardian to restrict Internet access.

HowTos from wiki.debian.org

The HowTos from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ are either user- or developer-specific. Let's move the user-specific HowTos over here (and delete them over there)! (But first ask the authors if they are happy with moving them and putting them under the GPL - see the page histories to find them.)

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