lfmartins wrote: > I'd like to get input on how people has set up sage in academic > environments. To be more concrete, let me tell my ideas on how to set > up sage in my department, and what the problems are.. > > Currently, we have labs for exclusive use of the mathematics > department. Unfortunately, our lab computers all run Windows (XP, most > of them, with a few Vistas). We don't have a file server or > application server, though: students have a login they have to use to > access campus computers, but they don't have centralized storage space > (yes, they save their work in USB drivers). So here are the > possibilities I am thinking about (please don't be afraid to say that > any of them are just plain stupid...) > > 1. Run Sage under VMWare player in each machine. Pros: easy to set up. > Cons: have buy license for VMWare software. This could be worked out > through an internal grant, but I still see the problem that, to keep > student's work separate, each one would have to have his/her own copy > of the virtual machine. And then, they would have to transfer their > work using a USB drive anyway. > > 2. Boot sage from the CDROM, have students store their work in USB > drive. Pros: can do it without telling about it to admins. Cons: don't > know if they will be happy. > > 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use, > access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how > to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the > problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server. > The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server). >
I set up a VirtualBox image of Sage using Ubuntu JeOS (similar to Dan Drake's setup, I think). I set mine up so that it is easy to run multiple Sage servers that are somewhat separate from each other (i.e., they don't have access to each other's notebooks). It's worked quite nicely, though the main use has been me demonstrating things in class and then publishing the worksheet for students to use as a help. We haven't had any computer lab sessions. You are welcome to try my image if you want. Let me know if you want and I can post it online. It does require fiddling a bit with text configuration files to get the networking to work right (I have a static IP that I manually assign). I believe you could install VirtualBox on each of the computers, but like others are saying, a central server makes things much nicer, if you can get a computer good enough to handle however many students you'll have on at one time. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
