Edubuntu and Renaissance Place

monteslu at cox.net monteslu at cox.net
Tue Feb 5 15:38:38 GMT 2008


I believe there is a windows and mac browser plugin to facilitate printing within the application, though printing can be done from a pdf viewer.

We've just ordered this as a replacement for the reading application that was windows and mac only. 

I'll update this and the k12 list with my findings as soon as it comes in and  is installed.


Luis

---- Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Barb Tabor wrote:
> 
> > I am thinking of setting up a lab of thin clients using Edubuntu at one of our elementary schools.
> > The teachers are very into AR (Accelerated Reader), STAR Reading and Math.
> > We are thinking of going to Renaissance Place with Enterprise.
> > Has anyone used Ren. Place with Edubuntu?
> > Any suggestions/recommendations would be appreciated.
> 
> I've never used it, but the Accelerated Reader system requirements say your
> server must be Windows with SQL server, etc.  The desktop machine
> requirements sau Windows or Mac with Adobe Acrobat Reader and IE or
> Firefox.
> 
> 	http://www.renlearn.com/ar/requirements.aspx
> 
> Given that Edubuntu has firefox and you can install adobe acrobat reader
> from the "multiverse" repository, it's plausible that this would work but
> to be honest, there's no guarantee.  If you can find someone technical in
> there they might give you a straight answer, but anyone in marketing will
> just likely say "no".  After that you may just have to try it and see.
> 
> This statement makes me a little bit nervous:
> 
>  "If the proxy requires users to authenticate to access sites outside of the
>  local network, Fluent Reader Student will be unable to connect to the
>  server since applications that use the Microsoft .NET Framework run in the
>  security context of a local user account."
> 
> as it does make it sound like there is some windows specific .NET
> application.  I don't know much about Mono (the .Net framework on linux) so
> am not sure if it'd be any help.
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
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