Instructor Setup
- The XData grading tool server can be installed on any machine running a 64 bit Linux. Please ensure the following before starting the installation:
- A PostgreSQL server (version 9.3 or above) is running on your machine and it is accessible.
- Apache tomcat (version 7 or above) is present.
- To install the XData grading tool run the file Install.sh (provided with the installer) as root.
You will be prompted to provide your tomcat directory, database information and some more authentication
information. Once this is done the grading tool will be deployed in your tomcat directory, database tables
required for running XData will be created and tomcat will be restarted.
- There are two modes in which the XData grading tool can be used
- With a Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Moodle or Blackboard as front-end
This makes use of the Learning Tools Interface (Interfacing using LTI).
If you plan to use the grading tool by only interfacing with learning management systems, you need not
use the admin login and create courses or users. Users log into the LMS and then follow a link to
XData; XData accepts user-ids as well as course and role information directly from the LMS.
During installation, you will need to provide LMS related information when prompted.
- Direct login. Using the admin login, you can create courses and users and assign roles as student and
instructor for direct login. The documentation for this is in Administrator Mode
documentation page.