So, they haunt me still. Now, I need to install their cruft to our network so new students may join the eternal Shelly Cashman fan club.

Table of Contents for This Page

• Course Test Manager
• Interlab - Interactive Lab

Course Test Manager

NOTE:Additional confidential information for DTCC admins is in the file /m/admin/docs/ctm.txt on apache. This file includes install location and CTM supervisor ID and password.

User Run Instructions

Reference Web Sites

• Shelly Cashman Series
• FAQ for Install
• Course Technologies Main Web Page
• CTM Download Page

Permission requirements

• Documented in ctm\testbank\readme.wri file on install CD. Also see observation notes below.

Observations

• Engine and testbanks installed separately
• Testbank should be installed into engine directory
• Doesn't install stuff in any system directories or make unusuall registry changes (YEAH!). Might be able to install it once on network, and not have to do work at each station (DOUBLE YEAH!). The README docs in ctm\testbank on the CD are GREAT! I wish all software vendors would document what is required security and install wise this well.
• FAQ claims that access rights docs are in a README file in the test manager engine directory. It's not. It's ctm\testbank directory. Read this file carefully. In addition to access rights, it documents what files should be backed up on a regular basis. We can do a cron job to park them into a different subdir for a few generations. Not like this is a ton of data. Backup tapes can get the larger picture when they are done too.
• Supervisor password should be changed
• share command that install tells you to put into autoexec.bat is N/A to NT. Don't do it.
• Docs say you should run a setup program from each testbank directory (e.g. off97.exe in off97 directory) to set up icons. Let's hope that's all it does (we can do that automatically)
• Since some files need to be world-writable, it's best to do some security thru obscurity by parking stuff down two levels with upper levels not having read-access to directory. This prevents someone from wandering around and trying stuff. Those determined can still do something nasty like zero the files. :-(
• Office 97 Test Manager run via: STARTUP.EXE Off97

Install instructions

1. Refer to file /m/admin/docs/ctm.txt for path info and passwords
2. Login as Administrator on NT domain
3. Map G: to \\apache\nt as your own (admin-grouped) username
4. Dive into CTM directory on CD
5. Run CDSETUP, install engine and testbank to correct path
6. chmod proper files (see ctm.txt file for details)
7. Create icon to run program (see Launch program below)

Launch Program

None needed. Just create proper icon to launch program and place in the global menu at /dos/nt/profiles/Start Menu/programs

Interlab - Interactive Lab

In luck, this thing will run with standard NT install, no workstation modifications necessary. (Well, *did* have to change standard install to ensure winspool.exe is world-readable in system32 directory).

I copied directory to server. Only caveat I have is that there can't be any path components to the start.exe program with spaces in it. Just use dos legal names. Then just create an icon to start.exe...