1. MY Server Desktop server for school teachers Yasuhisa Matsumura Nagoya University of Foreign Studies

2. What is a desktop server?  It’s a common personal computer  working as a WEB server.

3. WEB communication  Homepage: one-way communication  Mail / Bulletin board / Blog: two-way communication multiplex one-to-one communication  Server-side data processing: two-way communication one-to-many communication Server responds automatically.

4. MY Server – online testing server -

5. MY Server collects, evaluates answers and replies automatically.

6. E-teaching  Teacher - Student - communication via learning materials

7. Distinct Feature of MY Server light-weight server  It works simply on Windows 2000/XP and does not need any SQL server programs such as MS SQL / Oracle / MySQL.  MY Server can make every PC a server.  MY Server can make everyone / every student a server administrator (or e-teaching instructor).

8. Use of MY Server No.1  Educational tool to teach students server-side data processing Both the data-sharing server of a school and each student’s localhost machine can have the same “MY Server” program.

9. Check for data-consistency on the own PC  Students can make questionnaires / testing sheets and check for data consistency / access control on their own PCs.  They send their data to the common server after checking data.  This enables “MY Server” to be a educational tool for server-side data processing / e-teaching.

10. Use of MY Server No.2  A very light-weight server  It works very well even on a notebook PC as a “Mobile Server”

11. Limitation of MY Server  “MY Server” is actually not a learning management system (LMS) software for a whole school / university.  MY Server is an educational, administrative software for one teacher who manages several courses.  It is highly recommended to use MY Server together with such a school/university-level LMS as Blackboard / WebCT / Moodle etc.

12. Part II How to use MY Server  Data directories of MY Server

13. Instructor’s directories  The teacher (instructor) needs only to administer over the following 3 directories. 1. users 2. courses 3. data_summary

14. “users” directory  The user list named “user_list.csv” exists here. 1. Create/Edit the file “user_list.csv”. 2. Put the file onto the “Users” directory. 3. Double-click “update_user_list.exe”. (=saturn icon)

15. In “users” directory

16. “courses” directory  Instructor’s managing courses are created here. 1. Write exam paper using “FrontPage” / “DreamWeaver” / “GoLive” etc. 2. Put the exam paper into the course directory under “courses”. 3. Double-click “access_control.exe” (=saturn icon)

17. “courses” directory 

18. “data_summary” directory  Students’ answers are collected and summarized in the form of Excel sheet and stored in the “data_summary” directory.  The data collection is NOT automatic,  but the instructor has to first enter the course and click one of the buttons to “create Excel data”.

19. Instructor creates Excel data. 1. Enter the course 2. Click “Admin”-button and 3. Create Excel Data

20. Enter the course

21. Click “admin” button 

22. Instructor creates Excel data. 

23. Part III Public MY Server 

24. Upload 1. The Teacher of the class writes exam paper / questionnaires on his/her own MY Server just like text-processing. 2. Checks the files for data-consistency & access control and views the process of the exam evaluation on his/her own MY Server. 3. And then finally uploads them to the public common MY Server of the institution.

25. download  The teacher sometimes checks the students’ learning process.  He/She downloads the result Excel files from the public MY Server to his/her own MY Server.

26. Remote Desktop  Windows XP (or Windows 2000 Server) has a remote access program: “Remote Desktop”

27. Public MY Server  Type the address of the public MY Server of the institution

28. Windows authentication  Only the teachers who are logged in the server can proceed.

29. View the desktop of the public MY Server machine  If the desktop takes up the entire screen, then make it smaller so that you can see both desktops at the same time.

30. Copy & Paste from one desktop to the other  Excel data (or whatever else) can be copied and pasted from one desktop to the other.