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Overview

  ECAssignmentBox is a Plone product which allows the creation,
  submission and grading of online assignments (exercises, homework),
  both for traditional on-site courses and for e-learning.

Download

  * "plone.org products page":http://plone.org/products/ecassignmentbox/

Prerequisites

  To use ECAssignmentBox you need a current Plone installation, 
  specifically Plone 3.x.  Check 
  "plone.org":http://plone.org/products/plone for Plone's 
  prerequisites.

Installation

  If you have a suitable Zope/Plone installation (not using 
  build-outs), you can install ECAssignmentBox as follows:

  1. Extract the archive into the 'Products' directory of your Zope
     instance. (You can find out where your Zope instance is installed
     by opening the Zope Management Interface (ZMI) and going to the
     Control Panel; the directory listed as 'INSTANCE_HOME' is what
     you're looking for.)

  2. Restart Zope

  3. Use the 'portal_quickinstaller' of your Plone site in which you
     want to use ECAssignmentBox.

Support

  For questions and discussions about ECAssignmentBox, please join the
  "eduComponents mailing
  list":https://listserv.uni-magdeburg.de/mailman/listinfo/educomponents.

Credits

  ECAssignmentBox was written by "Mario  
  Amelung":mailto:mario.amelung@gmx.de and "Michael 
  Piotrowski":mailto:mxp@dynalabs.de.
  
  Additional programming by Marcel Abou Khalil and Sascha Peilicke.

  ECAssignmentBox was inspired by
  "LTAssignmentBox":http://lawtec.net/projects/ltassignmentbox.  The
  products don't share any code, though.

  The Statistics class was written by "Chad
  J. Schroeder":http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409413.
  It is licensed under the "Python
  license":http://www.python.org/license.

  The icons used in ECAssignmentBox are from the "Silk icon
  set":http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ by Mark James.  They
  are licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
  License":http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/.

  ECAssignmentBox was ported to Plone 3 by the Eudemonia Solutions AG 
  with support from 
  "Katrin Krieger":http://wdok.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/Members/kkrieger/ 
  and the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg.

License

  ECAssignmentBox is licensed under the
  "GPL":http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.

  Copyright © 2007 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

  ECAssignmentBox is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  ECAssignmentBox is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with ECAssignmentBox; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
