Using Italc Lab Management Tool
Purpose
Italc is a program that allows an instructor to control actions of a computer lab's workstation.
Some features of Italc Include:
- Classroom Manager (Overview Mode) - Allows teacher to view all student's Desktop / Applications
- Remote Desktop Control - Allows teacher to control the student's Desktop and lock-out student's access to computer session
- Snapshots - Allows teacher to take snapshot of student's Desktop / Applications
- Demo Mode - Allows teacher to broadcast their desktop session on student's computers (eg. demonstrations)
- Wake-up-on-LAN - Allows teacher to power-up all workstations
- Shutdown Mode - Allows teacher to logout and power-down workstation's CPU.
Here is a link to the Italc WIKI (for more background information):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITALC
Installing Italc
Use the synaptic package manager to install the following programs"
- libitalc
- italc-master
- italc-client
Here is a WIKI on how install applications using the Synaptic Package Manager: [ Install Applications in Ubuntu ]
Configuring Italc for Computer Lab (LTSP) Configuration
There is a lot of conflicting information on the Internet regarding the setup of the Italc application.
The following procedure works with the Edubuntu system (with LTSP)...
Steps:
- Login into the administrator account.
- Create an account called teacher. This will be the master account to control the other accounts.
- Open a shell terminal.
- Edit the sudoers file to allow the account teacher to be able to run sudo (administrative) commands by following the steps below:
- Type sudo sudovi
