Introduction

WebLab-Deusto is a remote laboratory management framework developed in the University of Deusto. A remote laboratory is a software and hardware solution that enables students to access equipment which is physically located in a university, secondary school or research centre. There are many types of remote laboratories (for physics, chemistry, electronics...). What WebLab-Deusto does is:

1. provide a set of APIs to develop new remote laboratories.
2. maintain remote laboratories developed on top of WebLab-Deusto: manage users, permissions, user tracking, scheduling, etc.
3. share remote laboratories developed on top of WebLab-Deusto: let other universities or secondary schools use your laboratories.
4. use remote laboratories provided by other universities (such as the University of Deusto).

If you want to see examples of running laboratories, try the demo version at:

http://www.weblab.deusto.es/weblab/

Documentation

The full documentation of WebLab-Deusto prior to WebLab-Deusto 5 is available in:

http://code.google.com/p/weblabdeusto/

Please take into account that this documentation can not be applied to the current development version of WebLab-Deusto, and certain things are different. We are working on a new version of the documentation. In the meanwhile, please refer to the Google Group to ask any question.

Installation

The full instructions to install the development version are here. However, the quick version is:

1. Install Python 2.7 and the Java Development Kit 6.
2. Install setuptools, pip and virtualenv.

Create a virtualenv and then install it:

$ python setup.py install

From this point, you can run:

$ weblab-admin create my-instance

To create a WebLab-Deusto instance. You can then manage that instance with the weblab-admin script.

Contact

For technical issues, please use the Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/weblabdeusto

For contacting the WebLab-Deusto team, contact us at:

weblab@deusto.es