The IVLE Manual

This manual is for system administrators and other users who wish to install and configure their own IVLE instance.

The primary users of IVLE, the students, are given a separate help page from within the system itself (accessible from the Help tab).

• Installation
  • System requirements
  • Master versus slave servers
  • Installing from source
  • Installing from an Ubuntu package
• Configuring IVLE
  • Configuration options
  • Apache configuration
• Upgrades
  • Shutting down
  • Unmounting user jails
  • Upgrading the code
  • Patching the database
  • Upgrading the jail
  • Rebuilding user jails
  • Changing the media version
  • Restarting the user management server
  • Starting everything back up
• Sample data
  • Installing the sample data
  • What is included
  • Updating the sample data
• A tour of IVLE
  • A student’s view
  • A lecturer’s view
  • An administrator’s view
• User roles
  • Ordinary users
  • Students
  • Tutors
  • Lecturers
  • Admins
• System directory hierarchy
  • The IVLE codebase
  • Configuration files
  • User jails
  • Subversion repositories and configuration
• Architecture overview
  • The IVLE web application
  • User management server
  • Subversion server
  • User jails
  • Scripts
  • Database
  • Authentication
• Admin scripts
  • ivle-addexercise
  • ivle-adduser
  • ivle-buildjail
  • ivle-cloneworksheets
  • ivle-config
  • ivle-createdatadirs
  • ivle-enrol
  • ivle-enrolallusers
  • ivle-fetchsubmissions
  • ivle-listusers
  • ivle-mountallusers
  • ivle-refreshfilesystem
  • ivle-remakeuser
  • ivle-showenrolment
• Frequently Asked Questions
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