TLC Live - anyone use it?

[Narwhal]

A staff member wants to use this in school but I am concerned about the level of access that would be required for students to run it. Does anyone have any experience with this?

[RobFuller]

We use it, the Java launcher is a pain in the butt but I have a workaround which I shared with TLC.

 

In a nutshell we use AppLocker to restrict applications that our users can run,

 

With that then allowing users to install the plug-in themselves becomes a nightmare to work out all the exceptions needed.

 

So what I discovered is if you run the installer using the following command,

 

msiexec /a "\\pathtofiles\BlackboardCollaborateLauncher-Win.msi" TARGETDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Blackboard\Blackboard Collaborate Launcher" /qn

 

it will then install the plugin into program files instead of users appdata folder, which we restrict. I then had to correct the file association so when they click on the .collab file it opens in the plugin install. This was done using group policy, see screenshot.

 

 

Finally, even though I had installed the plugin into Program Files it still copies and lunches Java from their local appdata folder (why, lord knows!!) so in AppLocker I had to put the following exception in.

 

%OSDRIVE%\USERS\*\APPDATA\LOCAL\BLACKBOARD\*

 

Edited November 18, 2016 by RobFuller

[asitbangalore]

How the work is going on TLC Live?

[Narwhal]

I have not succeeded yet. I am working on it in association with the folks at TLC Live.

[johnat1121]

We are using TLC live, we found we had to installed Board Works collaboration on the same account we were running the sessions on we now use a generic Exam account which we log-on via impero, for this and so far we have not had a single issue Edited November 21, 2016 by johnat1121
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[asitbangalore]

Thank you for answering. Which are the field used in TLC live? Edited November 22, 2016 by asitbangalore

[Narwhal]

I now have this working on dedicated student logins using an older version of their system that uses Java Web Start. It does not involve installing their software and therefore overcame the problems that I was encountering. the folks at TLC Live were very helpful.