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Macs and TestNav

  • May 2, 2011
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  • Anonymous

This topic may have been covered before, if so, I missed it. Have any of you
used MacBooks for End of Course online testing? I used them for some TELPAS
testing, there were only a handful so I installed TestNav manually. EOC will
have many more students taking the test. Can I set TestNav up on a computer,
take a snapshot using Casper to make a dmg then put it in self-service??

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!
Janet Croker
Technology Coordinator
Olney ISD
809 W. Hamilton
Olney, TX 76374
940/564-3519

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    • mark_sampers
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    • May 2, 2011

    I'm not sure what your install requires (Texas vs Minnesota) but we have
    successfully used Composer to create install packages for TestNav. (Be
    sure to follow standard setup proceedures and launch the setupclient.command
    before taking the final snap shot to build the package.) We use multiple
    proxy servers so we create two packages. One to install TestNav and another
    to set the proxy settings. (The proxy install package was created by
    dragging an edited proxysettings.properties file into Composer.)

    -- Mark Sampers
    Technology Support Cluster Specialist
    Independent School District 196
    Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools
    3455 153rd Street West
    Rosemount, MN 55068
    651-423-7973

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    • dhowell
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    • May 3, 2011

    Yeah the Pains, I had to push this out to 4000 computers. The 2 Issues with Capturing it was it had to have a alias in / that pointed to the Application and install and Data. It also has to install a Flash Player Trust in /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashPlayerTrust/testnav.cfg I captured the App install first. Make sure it Captured the trust then I ran this Script as a after Script.

    This says Volumes/telpasMAC because we had the App on a Share point, if you want to install it locally it would probably say /Applications/telpas. This creates the required Alias

    ln -shf /Volumes/telpasMAC /testnav

    chmod 644 "/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashPlayerTrust/testnav.cfg"

    D. Trey Howell ACMT, ACHDS, CCA
    trey.howell at austinisd.org
    Desktop Engineering
    twitter @aisdmacgeek

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