On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]> wrote: > Antonio Olivares <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Monday, May 22, 2017, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Antonio Olivares wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Dear Dfly Users, >> > > >> > > How does one open a *.ptg file? >> > >> > Why don't you ask your Pearson's sales rep or their technical support? >> > You might also want to have a computer running supported OS handy as I >> > am quite sure, based on my dealings with them, that nobody in that >> > publishing company have ever heard of DragonFly BSD. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Predrag >> > >> The folks will kindly ask me to use windblows and that they cannot help me >> because I am in uncharted territory :( Linux OS supports the app, but most >> have systemd, and I can use that, but as a last resort. I would like to >> get it working on DflyBSD as well! >> >> I use another link to open the gradebook, it is a *.jnlp file opens java >> web start with icedtea-web plugin, it works on Freebsd, but I would like to >> also use Dragonfly to open gradebook app, but it simply does not work. I >> know java works, but web plugin icedtea-web does not. I get a >> plugin-container.core file in ~/ . I know that firefox does not open java >> apps anymore, i use firefox-esr which still does. Any pointers or other >> advice is appreciated >> >> Best Regards, > > The DragonFly userbase is miniscule so I would be very surprised to find > out that anybody except you and I know what we are talking about right > now. You could be very well right and Person gradebook could be very > well something as simple as *.jnlp file in some kind wrapper. You have > two options. To figure out on your own and see if it is possible to open > it using generic tools or to keep your gradebook in some friendlier > format like .csv for example. While my teaching days are now behind me I > used to have very high teaching load for a University professor. I had > bunch of AWK scripts for processing gradebooks. > > http://predrag.freeshell.org/teaching/awk.html > > As a guy with 18 years of university teaching experience my > recommendation to deal with scores from online grading tools like > Person, WebAssign, or even Blackboard or Desire2Learn gradebooks would > be to export them into CSV files, process them with AWK, and then just > upload CSV files wherever they are needed. > > Cheers, > Predrag > >> >> >> Antonio
Dear Predrag, Thank you for your valuable input. These tools like awk/sed/etc. are great. I use awk to keep a running table for pts, goal differential, etc for our soccer team at school. I can use it in case I teach summer school, but for the gradebook it is online and I have to forcibly use the tool that they provide :( I will try later and see if I can troubleshoot the problem with the java containers or wrappers? Best Regards, Antonio
