Welcome to the NTER Wiki!

NTER is the National Training and Education Resource. It is a Learning Management System (LMS) with an integrated course authoring capability and a Content Management System (CMS) called the Portal. The LMS uses illias and the Portal uses Liferay. With NTER you can create courses in the industry standard SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) format that contain text, graphics, video, tables, tests, and reports.

NTER was created under the guidance of the U.S. Department of Energy as an open source learning tool.

While NTER is operational across the US, this site on SourceForge is an open source resource. Subscribe to receive updates as we add content to the WIKI. This site is always being developed.

For questions not found on this site, please email [email protected].

NTER Google Code
NTER platform code is available under General Pubic License, version 2 (GPL-v2.0).
Code is stored on Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/nter/
1. Portal: http://code.google.com/p/nter
2. LMS: https://code.google.com/p/nter.ilms-devel/
3. Kuda: http://code.google.com/p/kuda/
4. Moodle: https://code.google.com/p/nter.moodlelms-stable/

NTER SETUP and INSTALLATION
General Installation Info
[Installation Database Table and Fields for LMS]
[NTER ER Diagram of Liferay Database]
[Installation FAQ]
[Artifact Build Process Overview]
[External Applications and Libraries Used]
[Upgrading PHP5 (to 5.3.27) on Linux server]

NTER HUB INSTALLER
Setup your own node (LMS and Portal) via hub.nterlearning.org on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is updated since September 2, 2014. This install process still requires manual intervention though [NTER Portal Setup Finalization (After Using Hub)].

[AWS Elastic IP Recommendations] - by default, hub.nterlearning.org does NOT assign an AWS Elastic IP, this is not a best practice. So follow these steps to ensure your system will be operational after a reboot.
[Installation Post Checks LMS Portal] - Initial setup best practices
[nter-fix-reboot-issues] - fix autostart issues with shibd and fix new software install bug (shib)
[Linux Environment Variables] - notes about /etc/environment file as updated by hub.nterlearning.org
[AWS AMI Cloning] - one potential best practice for recovery from a regional AWS outage

[Installation Post Checks LMS Portal]

NTER Manual Installation
[NTER Basic Operating System Ubuntu VMware Requirements ]
[AWS AMI Cloning]
[AWS Elastic IP Recommendations]
[Installing and Using Jasper Reporting]
[Linux Admin Tasks]
[Linux Environment Variables]
[Search on NTER]

NTER FOR USERS

Getting Started Materials
[NTER Video Recommendations]
[Creating a Test in NTER]

Training Materials
[Importing and Exporting a Course]
[NTER LMS Email Functionality]
[NTER LMS User Account Administration]
[NTER LMS Email Functionality]

Diving into Using NTER
[Administration Payment and E-Commerce Functionality]
[Creating a Test in NTER]
[NTER Video Recommendations]

NTER MOBILE
[NTER Mobile Overview]
[NTER Mobile Authors Guide]

Project Members:

• Erin Twamley (admin)
• Escape Hatch Entertainment
• Hap Pearman
• Jeff Masiello (admin)
• Jim Pickering (admin)
• Kelly C
• Logan (admin)
• Michael Steele (admin)
• NTERCom (admin)
• NTERCom (admin)
• Robert Rowse
• Timothy L Porter (admin)

PLEASE NOTE: On the wiki you will find resources and we are working to keep this info up-to-date, so please create a ticket or flag any item that needs an update.