System Documentation
Currently the Tablet program employs three apps that are sideloaded onto the tablets. Sideloading is the common name that identifies the process of manually copying apps to the tablet and installing the app outside of the restrictions of the Amazon or Google app stores. The following apps are sideloaded onto the tablet. This means that…
This is the video from the new Student app demonstrating the new organization and default learning community.
This is a list of Documentation to help operate and manage the TFS website. A couple of “quick start” comments.
Each of our communities has individual needs and interests and we have learned that one lesson plan cannot meet the needs of everyone. There is a generic lesson plan included in the Community Template you used when you added the community in the On-boarding new Learning Communities documentation. This post describes how to modify the…
What are the major things that contribute to the flexibility of the website: Categories and Tags allow us to group Posts in flexible ways. Posts are assigned a category when they are created, the Category they are assigned to becomes one of the nodes in the Posts address (URL). Changing the Category should be discouraged…
Hostinger Logs It is useful to check the information collected by the Hostinger system. Here we see the Overview screen where we can see the the website is safe and how much of our Hosintger resources we are using. There are also some tips on things we can improve. Running the speed test can be…
Redirection When entering through the Student App, the “Leaning Community” Post is called. Before entering the Learning Community Post, the Redirection plugin is used to check if the student has previously logged in as part of a learning community by inspecting the value of the tfs_group cookie. If so, they are redirected to the appropriate…
Pingback Notifications When a post or page is saved which references another URL (both internal and external to the TechForSeniors environment), a ping is sent to any posts/pages linked to the saved post and an email alert is automatically sent to the site administrator. During periods of higher activity (such as system test and maintenance),…
This table lists all the current GFS/TFS website. We tried to explain how and why to the best of our time and ability (always time constrained it seems). This is very much a work in progress.
An important component of internet security is keeping software maintenance up to date to assure the latest security patches are installed. Our objective is to keep all the software updated for security and feature enhancements, to position the system for more advanced options, and solidify the overall architecture with things we’ve learned from our Learning…