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# Release Notes for XSCE 6.0
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## What is it?
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XSCE is the digital backbone for your education revolution. Put simply, School Server is an open-education project inspired by
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One Laptop Per Child to provide breakthrough digital learning tools to the world’s poorest children.
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### A Rose by any other Name
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Internally and in the source code we refer to this software as XSCE, the Community Edition of the XS server originally from
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OLPC. Students and teachers often know it as Internet in a Box, a collection of educational materials and applications found on the internet,
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but available on the server even without an internet connection. We also refer to it as a School Server since it is aimed at
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schools and other places where people learn and performs the function of a server.
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## What's new in XSCE Release 6.0?
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This release extends the tools available to educators in three ways:
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* It makes available free and open source content that is available in many languages
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* It provides new avenues for students to create, and share their work
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* It contains number of advances to permit easy configuration, tailoring of content, and monitoring of student work.
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### Newly Available Open Source Educational Content
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* KA Lite brings the online features of **Khan Academy** to the **offline** schoolserver based classroom. There are videos, exercises, tests, and student tracking in a number of languages, all selectable via a Graphical User Interface. https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/
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* Searchable **offline** access to **Wikipedia** and other content such as Wiktionaries and TED Talks in a variety of subjects and many languages, provided by the **Kiwix server** technology. http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
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* RACHEL (a currated selection of offline materials) http://worldpossible.org/rachel/
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* Bring your **own content** by inserting a **USB thumbdrive** with content into the server having it immediately viewable by students.
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### Encourage Students to Write, Foster the Creative Process
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* Elgg provides the tools for generating social networks http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/intro/features.html
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* ownCloud provides client based tools for storing and retrieving materials stored on the XSCE local cloud.
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* DokuWiki (EXPERIMENTAL) provides a means for students to publish their work. https://www.dokuwiki.org/features
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* Wordpress (EXPERIMENTAL -- enable in "local_vars") gives students experience editing/sharing using a tool that is becoming an industry standard.
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### New Tools for Administering the XSCE schoolserver
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* A new Graphical User Interface (Admin Console) to enable services, select and download content, get information
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* AWstats is a flexible tool for summarizing the web traffic on and through the server in graphical and detailed ways. http://www.awstats.org/
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## How do I get it?
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There are three main methods of installing this software:
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* Use ansible and the git repository - this is the fall back when you need to customize or you have a platform for which we have not created an image.
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* Use an image you download - for some commonly used platforms we create image files that you can download, put on a usb stick or sd card and boot in your new hardware.
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* Create and use your own image - this will appeal to you if you want an image to use in multiple machines and are able to use the tools we provide to create it.
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In each case you need hardware that has been assembled, but with nothing installed on it.
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Detailed instructions on each of these methods is at https://github.com/XSCE/iiab/wiki/XSCE-Installation.
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