Updating your site

Because onCourse has been written as one comprehensive system, updating your website is automated and painless. Every time you make a change to any relevant information those changes are automatically uploaded to your website without you having to do anything specific. For example, this means that as courses are filled the website automatically updates to show prospective students that places are limited.

Connectivity between your website and the onCourse client software

onCourse makes the uploading and downloading of information (the replication) foolproof so that you don’t have to worry about it. Replication was designed by ish to work perfectly even after your internet connection has been offline for a while (say, because your ISP had an outage). onCourse is designed to not require high performance internet links, so you can use very low cost ADSL and because you aren’t hosting the website in your office, you don’t need to invest in expensive, high performance, high reliability internet connections (such as SHDSL which are typically $400 / month and up). You also don’t need servers which provide 24×7 web access for students or have backup power and generators to ensure high reliability website service with a 24-hour climate controlled server room in a secure facility which complies with the Mastercard/Visa PCI security regulations .ish already does all that for you.

All you need are the computers you own today and a plain, simple low-cost internet link to run onCourse. We provide the rest.

• Automatic uploads to the website every time you make a change
• Resilient to outages in your internet connection
• Does not require a high speed connection
• Automatic replication of new enrolments and students from website
• Since you aren’t serving the website from your office, you don’t need to supply, support or service data-centre quality links and equipment
• Our data centre is constantly monitored and supported by experienced Unix system administrators. It has 24-hour airlock security, temperature control, diesel power backup, halon gas fire control and its own electricity sub-station
• Separate monitoring systems check the availability of every website every 15 minutes. Our technical team is notified of any outage via SMS and email notification.